Alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a jail in New York, where she faces charges of facilitating a sex trafficking ring.
Maxwell, 58, was arrested on Thursday in New Hampshire and had been held over the weekend at the Merrimack County Jail.
The prison is a medium-security facility 32km from the luxurious home where investigators said she had been lying low.
Maxwell is now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said on Monday.
Prosecutors have accused Maxwell, the daughter of the late British media magnate Robert Maxwell, of luring and grooming underage girls so Epstein could sexually abuse them.
In some cases, Maxwell herself participated in the abuse, according to an indictment unsealed last week.
Maxwell is expected to make her first appearance in federal court in Manhattan on Friday on four criminal counts related to procuring and transporting minors for illegal sex acts and two counts of perjury.
Epstein had been awaiting trial on federal charges of trafficking minors between 2002 and 2005 when he was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in August.
Medical examiners concluded he took his own life.
Maxwell was a former Epstein girlfriend who became a longtime member of his inner circle.
In a 2003 Vanity Fair article, Epstein was quoted as saying Maxwell was his best friend.
The indictment said Maxwell lured girls beginning in 1994 through 1997 by asking them about their lives, schools and families and taking them shopping or to movies.
After Maxwell won the girls' trust, the indictment alleged, she would try to "normalise sexual abuse" by discussing sexual topics or by undressing in front of them or being present when they were undressed.
Epstein's alleged abuse included touching their genitals, placing sex toys on their genitals and having the girls touch Epstein while he masturbated.
Maxwell faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors have said Maxwell is a flight risk, and have asked that she be detained without bail.
Australian Associated Press
