Ghislaine Maxwell

In an exclusive interview with WLRN, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown said millions of newly released documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case is a litmus test of the American justice system’s ability to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

This comes as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite turned convicted sex trafficker , is off to Florida to serve a 20-year federal prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls — returning to the same state, but a far cry from the posh lifestyle, where she committed some of her crimes.

Maxwell, 60, could be sentenced to up to 55 years in prison — the most concrete punishment yet for the sex-trafficking conspiracy she operated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Federal prosecutors argued Monday that Jeffrey Epstein could not have preyed on teenage girls without the help of the British socialite. Defense attorneys, meanwhile, said she was wrongfully accused.

The federal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, former companion of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began in earnest this week. She's accused of grooming girls on Epstein's behalf.

The female accuser, using the pseudonym Jane, is the first of four women who are expected to speak in court about their allegations of sexual abuse.

Opening statements in the highly anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell begin on Monday in a Manhattan federal court. This is what the defense is expected to say, and what we're waiting to find out.