Daughter of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, fixer for paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein – both men disgraced, both dead. Who - and where - is Ghislaine Maxwell? | GoodWeekendMag
, aired two weeks later, with one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims to have had sex with the prince at Epstein’s and Maxwell’s behest.Giuffre is just one of a number of women who, in lawsuits against Epstein’s estate, have named Maxwell as the “madam” who led them to him.
Educated at the elite Marlborough College school and Balliol College, Oxford, Ghislaine was her father’s favourite: bullied and adored, subjugated and praised. Nothing was too good for her, and nothing she did would ever be good enough. , and Ghislaine was despatched to the city as his emissary. It was her entrée to New York society. But just a few months later, Maxwell was dead – leaving a £460 million black hole in Mirror Group’s company pension scheme, and his wife and family to face the consequences.
When Ghislaine Maxwell arrived in New York in 1991, Epstein was living in a one-bedroom apartment. But early in 1992 he moved into a grand town house on the Upper East Side that had once been occupied by the deputy consul general of Iran, paying $US15,000 a month in rent.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell with Donald Trump and his future wife Melania Knauss at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida in 2000.. He was 38. She had designs on marrying him. He had no interest in that – his enthusiasm for younger women was well-known – but they developed a deeply symbiotic relationship, closer than many marriages, forged in a mixture of mutual interest, dependence and gratitude.
The “fixer” role inspired most curiosity. “There were whispers that Jeffrey had a soft spot for teenage girls and that Ghislaine was ever so obliging in finding them for him,” one friend says. But nobody appeared to see this as an obstacle to befriending them, or to their progress to the centre of New York’s social world. “It seems stupid to say it now,” the friend says, “but it just seemed naughty rather than the depravity we’ve learnt of since.
Flight logs show that in February 1999 Prince Andrew and Maxwell flew with Epstein on his private jet from St Thomas, the airport closest to Little St James, to Palm Beach, Florida. In July, Epstein and Maxwell visited Andrew at the Balmoral royal estate in Scotland. In February 2000, Andrew joined Epstein and Maxwell at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
Extraordinary wealth can often create an illusion of invulnerability, a sense of being unaccountable. But for Epstein – and Maxwell – that was about to change. In March 2005, the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl in Florida told the Palm Beach police that her stepdaughter had been molested by Epstein at his home after he had paid her $US300 to give him an “erotic massage”.
A visitor log shows that he was visited in prison by Marcinkova and Kellen, but there is no mention of Maxwell. Nor was she named in the case, although her name was written on message pads, flight manifests and other documents found by the police in Epstein’s home. She would, however, become publicly associated with Epstein’s crimes.
One of those lawsuits was filed in a Florida court by Virginia Roberts. In her deposition, filed under the pseudonym Jane Doe 102, Roberts would give the first detailed account of what she would allege to be Maxwell’s role as procurer and sex abuser, setting in train a string of lawsuits in which she would emerge as Maxwell’s principal nemesis.Roberts claimed that in the summer of 1998 Maxwell had “recruited” her as a masseuse for Epstein when she was 15 and working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
A few days after the story appeared, Maxwell issued a press statement claiming that Roberts’s allegations against her were “abhorrent and entirely untrue”, and serving notice that she intended to take legal action against certain British newspapers. No actions materialised. But another was looming. “My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy,” she claimed. “Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.”
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