<p>NEW YORK &mdash; For a fifth time, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell lost a bid Wednesday to be freed on bail prior to a November trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.</p>
<p>The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a brief order rejecting Maxwell’s latest request. The three-judge panel that issued it did not elaborate.</p>
<p>The appeals court had rejected a bail request once before and her trial judge had thrice said no.</p>
<p>In the latest bail quest, Maxwell’s lawyers asked the appeals court to at least order the lower-court judge to conduct a hearing where evidence related to bail could be shown. The 2nd Circuit rejected that, too.</p>
<p>Maxwell, 59, has been incarcerated since last July. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-trials-ghislaine-maxwell-05c7d66a0885da88021a908615c211ba">She has pleaded not guilty</a> to charges including sex trafficking and conspiracy that allege she recruited at least four females for Epstein to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004.</p>
<p>Her <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nh-state-wire-ghislaine-maxwell-trials-9812ecf0a5ded40d0fede8f4050122f3">trial was recently moved </a> from July to November. Opening statements are scheduled for late in the month.</p>
<p>Epstein killed himself in a federal Manhattan lockup in August 2019 while he awaited a sex trafficking trial.</p>
<p>Maxwell’s lawyers have argued <a href="https://apnews.com/article/general-news-ny-state-wire-ghislaine-maxwell-d65e143493bb4eeaeb50897ce464e3f1">she has been mistreated</a> at a federal jail in Brooklyn, though prosecutors dispute the allegations.</p>
<p>Her lawyers have gradually increased the terms of a proposed bail package, saying Maxwell and friends and family would put up $28.5 million. They also say Maxwell, a U.S. citizen, would agree to 24-hour armed guards, an electronic bracelet and renounce her citizenship in England and France.</p>
<p>David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s appeals attorney, said in an email that his client “is subjected to more grueling conditions than any other inmate” at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>He described the facility as a “complete disaster” and said Maxwell can’t adequately prepare for trial in a facility where she is awakened every 15 minutes at night when guards shine a light into her cell to check on her.</p>
<p>“We all know the truth — this is due to the Epstein effect. Because Epstein died on the jail’s watch, it has decided to torture Ghislaine. That’s wrong,” Markus said.</p>