Jeffrey Epstein faces sex-abuse trial by proxy. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is accused of grooming his underage victims.

Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. Despite his suicide, the disgraced financier will still be put on trial in a sense in the coming weeks by a proxy: his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The 59-year-old Maxwell is to go before a federal jury in Manhattan later this month on charges she groomed underage victims to have unwanted sex with Epstein. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) (John Minchillo/AP)