By DAPHNE BARAK FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
- Ghislaine Maxwell was speaking from her 10ft by 12ft prison cell inside New York’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, where she has spent past 16 months in solitary confinement
- Ms Maxwell, 59, said: ‘I have not had a nutritious meal in all that time. I haven’t slept without lights on – fluorescent lights that have damaged my eyes – or been allowed to sleep without constant interruptions’
- She also claims that a ‘friendly rat’ routinely sat next to her on an open sewer as she went to the toilet
- Heiress, who faces rest of her life behind bars if convicted of abusing and procuring young girls for billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein – charges she vehemently denies – claims she’s stopped taking showers as ‘creepy’ guards stare at her
Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken for the first time about her ‘living hell’ behind bars – claiming that she has been assaulted and abused by prison guards, purposely deprived of sleep and given rotting food to eat….
