![]() ![]() ![]() Ghislaine was on trial for her life but she was behaving as if she just popped into 5 Hertford Street and happened to spot some friends at another table. There were giggles and little girl laughs. There were hugs and air kisses directed at her lawyers and even her poor sister Isabel (who looked like she was the one on trial). Ghislaine showed up in full Angelina Jolie armour a soft turtleneck sweater, grey flowing trousers and a new blow-dry that she kept tossing about. Were Ghislaine to have entered the downtown Manhattan courtroom downtrodden, in a cheap suit with her hair falling out, we might have kept mirroring – but no. “It explains why we cannot help but respond when a baby cries.” All humans have what are called “mirror neurons” or “sympathy neurons”, says Dr Mitchell W Sedgwick, senior fellow in the department of social anthropology at LSE. Rachel Johnson came under serious fire last month for finding it “hard not to feel a bat squeak of pity for Ghislaine Maxwell – 500 days and counting in solitary confinement” but, before the trial began on 29 November, many of those who knew Ghislaine a bit (like me) admitted (behind locked doors) to feeling some sympathy. The jury, supposedly unburdened by knowledge of anything related to Jeffrey Epstein, may have been none the wiser but the rest of us quickly became hybrids of Inspector Clouseau and Sigmund Freud. ![]() Watching the Maxwell trial unfold was like taking an armchair psychology course on speed. ![]()
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