From privileged childhood to trial, this is a riveting story – although Ghislaine Maxwell remains an enigma just out of reach
colleague, the inimitable John Sweeney, produced a couple of years ago.
The book divides into three broad sections: Maxwell’s upbringing as the favoured yet traumatised child of the publisher and pension thief Robert Maxwell; her move to the US and her fateful relationship with Jeffrey Epstein; and finally, an extended report on her trial.Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
As such, it’s a perfectly sensible proposition, which may well be true, but as Maxwell herself has never really spoken about any of it – she elected not to give evidence at her own trial – it’s hard to know how damaged she was before she began damaging. Sweeney raises the question of whether she has been left to carry the can for these two men who, the evidence suggests, killed themselves . As he writes: “The vast majority of Epstein’s Palm Beach victims never meet Ghislaine, never hear her name.”
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