Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell, was a big CIA guy.
And she's just whining that she's the only one in prison. Oh, and
her dad just happened to fall to his death from his yacht. Sure.
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Amid some speculation as to whether the photograph may have been staged, and with mystery still surrounding her whereabouts, one thing is undeniable: for the second time, Ghislaine's life has been turned upside down by the death of a controversial and powerful man.
It is almost 30 years since her father, the press baron Robert Maxwell, fell to his death from his 15m yacht, Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands, aged 68. Even now there is talk of suicide, or murder perhaps by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
"He was a man who could not face the ignominy of jail, of being shown to be a liar and a thief. And he very much knew that was coming," says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of one of Maxwell's newspapers, the Daily Mirror. "So I am a suicide theorist. I believe Maxwell threw himself off."
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For Oxford-educated Ghislaine, the youngest of his nine children, Maxwell's money had provided status and a ticket to the elite. She was dispatched to New York initially as a meeter-and-greeter, to pave her father's way when he bought the Daily News. After his death, she made it her home. She soon became part of Epstein's inner circle and remained there for more than a decade. The two were reportedly briefly an item; they remained close.
She is said to have facilitated Epstein's social contacts, flying with him on his private jet and organising dinners for influential people at his homes. One acquaintance described her as "half ex-girlfriend, half employee, half best friend and fixer". Epstein described her, in a 2003 Vanity Fair profile, as his "best friend".
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Allegations by Epstein's accusers that she helped procure girls for the financier have been denied repeatedly.
Maxwell, one of seven children of Jewish parents, was born Jn Ludvk Hoch in the Czechoslovakian mountain village of Slatinsk Doly, now part of Ukraine and known as Solotvyno. He claimed not to have had a pair of shoes until he was seven.
He escaped Nazi occupation by fleeing to France as a teenager, but lost his parents, four siblings and most of his extended family in the Holocaust. After joining the Czechoslovak army in exile, he was evacuated to Britain and joined the British army under the name Ivan du Maurier, apparently after a cigarette brand. He fought in Normandy, met his wife a student at the Sorbonne and won the Military Cross for heroism on the Dutch-German border; the decoration was pinned to his chest by Field Marshal Montgomery.
Throughout his life, he was a good friend to Israel, investing heavily in publishing, pharmaceutical and computer firms in the country. He met accusations he was an Israeli spy with furious denials and legal threats. Such speculation was fanned again after his death, when he was accorded almost a state funeral in Israel, attended by the prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, and the president, Chaim Herzog, and buried in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. Conspiracy theorists have claimed that Mossad killed him because Israel refused him a loan and he threatened to retaliate.
The CIA, mossad, Ukraine, media empires, spy rooms for guests, compromising the rich and powerful, trafficking in women/under-aged girls. None of this will ever fully come out.
