Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail for the sixth time as she awaits her trial for charges of sex trafficking, The Times reports.
Maxwell, 59, is accused of helping arrange for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse underage girls as young as 14, which she denies.
The decision to keep her behind bars was made amid claims by her legal team that she is being treated like "Hannibal Lecter", the fictional cannibalistic serial killer from the movie Silence of the Lambs.
According to the paper, Maxwell's lawyer David Oscar Markus told the court earlier on in the year: "Though she is a model prisoner who poses no danger to society and has done literally nothing to prompt 'special' treatment, she is kept in isolation."
Markus continued: "Conditions fitting for Hannibal Lecter but not a 59-year-old woman who poses no threat to anyone. She is subjected to multiple invasive searches every day. Her every movement is captured on multiple video cameras.
"She is deprived of any real sleep by having a flashlight pointed into her cell every 15 minutes."
Bobbi Sternheim, another attorney on the defendant's legal team, added in a letter: "Many of the officers are openly hostile toward her and have mentioned having read the press and seen various television shows which amplify their hostility."
In response to the claims of poor treatment, District Judge Alison Nathan has promised in a recent ruling that the 59-year-old would be taken from her jail cell to her trial "in a way that is humane, proper, and consistent with security protocols".
It was previously reported by Reuters that the reason she has repeatedly been denied bail is due to concerns that she might flee and refuse to cooperate with authorities.
Since she was arrested in July 2020 at her New Hampshire home, she has denied any involvement in the incidents of sex trafficking that her now-deceased ex-partner, Jeffrey Epstein, was accused of.
Epstein committed suicide by hanging in his jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited, also without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell's trial is set to begin on November 29.