FBI agents experienced to split down a door to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell, who had wrapped a cellular mobile phone in tin foil to prevent detection, prosecutors say.

The previous affiliate of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was becoming guarded at her house by former associates of the British military services when she was arrested on 2 July, New York court papers also said.

Ms Maxwell faces up to 35 years in jail above allegations she recruited teenage ladies for Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s.

Attorneys said the socialite, 58, is an “amazing” flight risk as she has British, French and US passports and is “skilled at residing in hiding”.

Revealing aspects of her arrest at the New Hampshire estate she acquired in December, prosecutors claimed FBI agents instructed Maxwell to open up the door but she refused.

“By way of a window, the brokers saw the defendant disregard the direction to open up the doorway and, rather, consider to flee to an additional area in the home, swiftly shutting a doorway guiding her,” they stated.

Agents have been compelled to crack by way of the doorway to arrest Maxwell.

During a stability sweep of the home agents found a cell mobile phone wrapped in tin foil on a desk which they reported was “a seemingly misguided energy to evade detection, not by the push or community, which of study course would have no skill to trace her mobile phone or intercept her communications, but by legislation enforcement”.

The only other human being at the assets at the time of Maxwell’s arrest was a personal protection guard who advised the FBI Maxwell’s “brother had employed a safety firm staffed with former associates of the British military to guard the defendant” at the dwelling on rotation, the court docket submitting claimed.

It also emerged that at minimum one of Epstein’s victims, and possibly far more, will inform a choose at a listening to on Tuesday that Ms Maxwell should be denied bail.

Her lawyers will argue she should really be unveiled on $5m (£3.9m) bail with digital checking as they stated she is staying manufactured a scapegoat immediately after Epstein killed himself in jail last August.

Prosecutors allege Maxwell performed a central part in facilitating Epstein’s crimes and she contributed to “sexual exploitation that caused deep and long lasting hurt to susceptible victims”.

Maxwell past 7 days claimed she “vigorously denies the charges” and intends to combat them, her lawyers also argue that she is shielded by a plea arrangement Epstein struck in 2007 in Miami, which covered “any potential co-conspirators.”