![]() ![]() Williams said Maxwell would occasionally purposefully pose, something that actually served the artist's purposes. But it's not going to affect anything I do,"' Williams said. Even once Williams discovered the defendant was drawing the artists, she stayed on her side of the divide, doing her own sketch of Maxwell at work but unbothered. Williams said Maxwell was keenly aware of the artists, but it wasn't initially clear what exactly the defendant was up to on her own pad of paper. A meta sketch by Reuters artist Jane Rosenberg of Maxwell drawing her even went viral. Maxwell breached that divide, attracting some attention for drawing the courtroom artists themselves. I'm looking at them as they're a news story to me and I want them to stay that way." Williams prefers a wall between herself and subjects: "I don't like to become friendly with anybody I'm drawing. Here, Williams takes the AP through her sketchpad, colouring in the key moments of Maxwell's trial with her behind-the-scenes observations: ARTISTS BECOME SUBJECT Jeffrey Epstein, by contrast, was "incredibly fidgety." Williams drew Epstein, the ex-boyfriend-turned-employer of Maxwell, at his unsuccessful bail hearings before his 2019 jailhouse suicide. "It's great when you can draw a trial a lot, because the more you can draw somebody, the better you're going to get at drawing them," Williams said, adding that Maxwell "kept a pretty cool persona" that necessitated close study. ![]() Over the course of Maxwell's monthlong trial, which ended with last week's conviction, Williams says she produced around 100 sketches of witness testimony, attorney arguments, jurors, the judge, spectators and, above all, the defendant herself. She uses brushes, pens and high-quality pastels and estimates she throws out as many as half the sketches she starts. And the sketches are just that, indelible - there's no room for an eraser in the "whole huge bag of art supplies" she toted into court. ![]() Williams has had to hone her news judgment to keep apprised of the moments that will become indelible images. There, the judge had barred media from the courtroom, so Williams was forced to draw the R&B singer and witnesses off monitors in an overflow room, where she said everything was blurry and "the judge's head was the size of a dime." At the Manhattan federal courthouse, in contrast, Williams was seated close enough to Maxwell to hear her speak French to her siblings. Kelly's own sex-trafficking trial over in Brooklyn federal court. Maxwell's was the first full trial Williams covered from the courtroom itself in the pandemic era, coming right on the heels of R. ![]() Williams has been the public's eyes in courtrooms since 1980 and has drawn for The Associated Press since 2004, though the typical flurry of courthouse activity slowed during the coronavirus pandemic. "I'm basically the substitute camera," Williams said, emphasizing that she's "not using artistic license to move anything around." And unlike disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein - also drawn by Williams but much photographed going to and from his sex-abuse trial - Maxwell was still jailed during her trial, ferried each way out of sight from the press and public. Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams, however, was at the ready and before the hour was up, the curtain-raising scene was transmitted to news outlets around the world.Ĭameras are generally prohibited in federal court. As Ghislaine Maxwell strode into the courtroom for the first day of her sex-trafficking trial, no photographer was allowed to catch it. ![]()
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