[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial begins today in New York; She faces up to 80 years in prison if found guilty
- Maxwell, 59, is charged with recruiting and grooming four underage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse from 1994 to 2004
- Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and other charges and has been awaiting trial for over a year in 'hell-hole' Brooklyn prison
- The high-profile trial is expected run to mid-January with opening statements beginning Monday
- Lines formed outside the New York courthouse Monday two hours before the start the trial
- Maxwell's brother Ian claimed she was paying a 'blood price' because Jeffrey Epstein dodged justice
- Sarah Ransome, one of several women who have accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual abuse, was seen arriving at the courthouse Monday morning but will not be testifying
- Ransome, who was born in South Africa to wealthy British parents, claimed she tried to escape Epstein's 'pedophile island' through shark-invested waters after being raped three times in one day
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