"It was the first thing she did when she got into court.""It was like she didn't think anyone would notice. She stared right at us and it was definitely an odd moment."Elizabeth Williams, New York-based court illustrator"When it first happened I was like, what's going on? Why are people sketching me?""In Parnas's trial the co-defendant was sketching me madly.""[Maxwell] still makes eye contact and nods her head [at Williams and Rosenberg every day].""Maybe she was trying to psyche us out or perhaps she was just missing human contact. But whatever the reason, it didn't creep us out."Jane Rosenberg, court illustrator
Sketch artist Elizabeth Williams, who was at Ghislaine Maxwell's
pre-trial hearing in November, said it was a first when Maxwell started
sketching her.
Jane Rosenberg/REUTERS While the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, charged with procuring underage girls for the sexual gratification of her friend and one-time lover, Jeffrey Epstein carries on in New York, and details of their relationship, their lifestyle, their friends and acquaintances, and the squalid, sordid details of the British press heiress are revealed as a procurer and groomer of young girls for Epstein to enjoy sex with, the names and positions of other men who deemed it their entitlement to share the immoral, illegal acts have blackened names, and none so much as Ms.Maxwell's herself.
And suddenly, another distraction, from the excruciating details of grooming girls and flying them out to various of the multi-millionaire's properties. Details emerging not only from witness accounts and the accusations of the young girls, now mature women determined that though they can no longer paint their principal abuser for the scum that he was since his suicide, they can always describe to the world the role that Ms. Maxwell played in their sexual degredation.
Is it a sign of contempt, of composure, or a quirky nature that compels the accused herself to engage in further peculiar exploits in the very courtroom where she is being tried? Court illustrators must be quick artists, but they must also be skilled in noting details as part of their work where illustrations of the accused and the court proceedings are permitted for public scrutiny in daily news reportage, but not photographs, in the interests of providing the accused with some fraction of respectful privacy.
Two of the court illustrators in the Maxwell trial have come to the realization that the defendant whose trial they are hired to cover as artists, has taken to deliberately sketching them just as they are sketching her. Theirs for official purposes; she for a purpose known only to herself. One of the illustrators, Jane Rosenberg, drew illustrations of Ghislaine Maxwell in the process of drawing her sketches; of herself and of her companion illustrator, Elizabeth Williams.
When these illustrations were posted they drew incredulous responses from those for whom these events mark a personality that is beyond warped, some terming the situation 'horrific', othrs speaking of it as representative of 'villain-energy'. It cannot be known whether Ms. Maxwell was confronted with a question of her motivation, which leaves it open to wild and wide speculation. Perhaps she is simply bored with the proceedings and entertaining herself in the hopes that others will be entertained as well.
The illustrators have themselves been subjected on occasion to episodes where in other trials they have covered and illustrated, for reasons known only to those embarking on similar ventures -- perhaps to discombobulate or frighten the illustrators they have been sketched by the people on trial facing them directly -- aware of being sketched and returning the compliment. Skillfully, one might hope.
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Ghislaine Maxwell started sketching sketch artist Jane Rosenberg in court last week. Jane Rosenberg/REUTERS/Alamy |
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, December 08, 2021
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