Ghislaine Maxwell worked for her father until his death in 1991; she then moved to New York City, where she continued living as a socialite and had a relationship with Epstein.
66 Facts About Ghislaine Maxwell
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In 2012, Ghislaine Maxwell founded a non-profit group for the protection of oceans.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is a naturalised US citizen and retains both French and British citizenship.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was denied bail as a flight risk, with the judge expressing concerns regarding her "completely opaque" finances, her skill at living in hiding, and the fact that France does not extradite its citizens.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was born in 1961, in Maisons-Laffitte, Ile-de-France, France, the ninth and youngest child of Elisabeth, a French-born scholar, and Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's father was from a Jewish family, and her mother was of Huguenot descent.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was born two days before a car accident that left her fifteen-year-old brother Michael in a prolonged coma until his death in 1967.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's mother said that all her children were brought up as Anglicans.
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Ghislaine Maxwell studied first at Oxford High School for Girls in North Oxford and then, aged nine, was enrolled at Edgarley Hall preparatory school in Somerset, followed by Headington School at age thirteen.
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Ghislaine Maxwell attended Marlborough College to study for A-Levels, before going on to earn a degree in Modern History with Languages from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1985.
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Ghislaine Maxwell had a close relationship with her father and was reportedly his favourite.
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The Times reported that he did not permit Ghislaine Maxwell to bring her boyfriends home or to be seen with them publicly, after she started attending Oxford University.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was a prominent member of the London social scene in the 1980s.
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Ghislaine Maxwell founded a women's club named after the original Kit-Cat Club and was a director of Oxford United Football Club during her father's ownership.
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Ghislaine Maxwell worked at The European, a publication her father had established.
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Ghislaine Maxwell spent a large amount of time in the late 1980s aboard the yacht, which was equipped with a jacuzzi, sauna, gym and disco.
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The Sunday Times reported that Ghislaine Maxwell flew to New York City on 5November 1990 to deliver an envelope on her father's behalf that, unknown to her, was part of "a plot initiated by her father to steal $200m" from Berlitz shareholders.
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Ghislaine Maxwell attended her father's funeral in Jerusalem alongside Israeli intelligence figures, president Chaim Herzog, and prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, who gave his eulogy.
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Ghislaine Maxwell moved to the United States in 1991, shortly after her father's death.
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At the time, Ghislaine Maxwell worked at a real estate office on Madison Avenue and was reported to be socialising with celebrities.
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Ghislaine Maxwell quickly rose to wider prominence as a New York City socialite.
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Accounts differ on when Ghislaine Maxwell first met American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Times reported that Ghislaine Maxwell met Epstein in the early 1990s at a New York party following "a difficult break-up with Count Gianfranco Cicogna Mozzoni" of the CIGA Hotels clan.
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Ghislaine Maxwell had a romantic relationship with Epstein for several years in the early 1990s and remained closely associated with him for more than 25 years until his death in 2019.
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been referred to as the "Lady of the House" by Epstein's staff and as his "aggressive assistant".
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Ward observed that Ghislaine Maxwell seemed "to organize much of his life".
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Ghislaine Maxwell is known for her longstanding friendship with Prince Andrew, and for having escorted him to a "hookers and pimps" social function in New York.
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Ghislaine Maxwell introduced Epstein to Prince Andrew, and the three often socialised together.
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In 1995, Epstein renamed one of his companies the Ghislaine Maxwell Corporation; based in Palm Beach, Florida, the company was dissolved in 1998.
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Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, when Giuffre was a 16-year-old spa attendant.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's spokesperson said "the allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue" and she "strongly denies allegations of an unsavoury nature, which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old defamatory claims".
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Ghislaine Maxwell's affidavit stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew her then 15-year-old sister, Annie, to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell molested her on a massage table.
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Farmer was interviewed for CBS This Morning in November 2019 where she detailed the 1996 assault and alleged that Ghislaine Maxwell had threatened both her career and her life after the assault.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York on 20 August 2019 against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
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On 12 March 2020, Ghislaine Maxwell filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in the US Virgin Islands seeking compensation from Epstein's estate for her legal costs.
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Ghislaine Maxwell claimed she had been a longtime employee of Epstein who had served to manage his property holdings in the US Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico, Florida and Paris while continuing to deny any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was named in a civil suit filed against Epstein's estate in March 2021 by a Broward County woman who accused Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of trafficking her after repeatedly raping her in Florida in 2008.
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Ghislaine Maxwell requested a rehearing in a federal appeals court on 17 July 2019, in an effort to keep documents sealed that were part of a suit by Giuffre.
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Reuters confirmed on 27 December 2019 that Ghislaine Maxwell was under investigation by the FBI for facilitating Epstein's criminal activities.
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The New York Times reported that by 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell was no longer being photographed at events.
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Ghislaine Maxwell has a history of being unreachable during legal proceedings.
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However, Ghislaine Maxwell returned within a month to attend Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
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In January 2020, it was reported that Ghislaine Maxwell had refused to allow her lawyers to be served with several lawsuits in which she has been directly named in 2019 and 2020, including one by Farmer and from Araoz.
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USVI prosecutors consider Ghislaine Maxwell to be a "critical fact witness" in their lawsuit against Epstein's estate.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire by the FBI on 2 July 2020, through the use of an IMSI-catcher mobile phone tracking device on a phone used by her to call one of her lawyers, her husband Scott Borgerson, and her sister Isabel.
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Ghislaine Maxwell appeared by video link before a court in Manhattan on 14 July 2020 and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney reiterated her request for bail on 18 December 2020, and proposed that Ghislaine Maxwell reside with a friend in New York City while under 24-hour surveillance as she awaited trial.
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On 26 January 2021, a motion by Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys challenged her grand jury indictment, claiming that it did not reflect the ethnic diversity of the jurisdiction in which the violations of the law were alleged to have occurred.
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Ghislaine Maxwell later said that she had extended the jury's hours to 6 pm and would have deliberations continue through the holiday weekend until the jury reached a verdict.
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Ghislaine Maxwell had shared a narrative of that abuse with other jurors during the proceedings.
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On 28 June 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison; prosecutors were seeking a sentence of at least 30 years.
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Ghislaine Maxwell complained of threats coming from jail staff in the days prior to sentencing, but gave no details about the nature of the threats.
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On 25 July 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn to a low security federal prison for female inmates at FCI Tallahassee.
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In 2012, Ghislaine Maxwell founded the TerraMar Project, a nonprofit organisation that advocated the protection of oceans.
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Ghislaine Maxwell gave a lecture for TerraMar at the University of Texas at Dallas and a TED talk, at TEDx Charlottesville in 2014.
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Ghislaine Maxwell accompanied Stuart Beck, a 2013 TerraMar board member, to two United Nations meetings to discuss the project.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Terramar was listed as officially dissolved on 3 December 2019.
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Since at least 1997, Ghislaine Maxwell has maintained a residence in Belgravia, London.
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Ghislaine Maxwell attended the wedding of Chelsea Clinton in 2010 as Waitt's guest.
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Ghislaine Maxwell helped Waitt obtain and renovate a luxury yacht, the Plan B, and used it for travel to France and Croatia before their relationship ended, in late 2010 or early 2011.
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On 15 August 2019, reports surfaced that Maxwell had been living in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, in the home of Scott G Borgerson, a Council on Foreign Relations fellow in residence, since 2007, who, in October 2020, due to the publicity surrounding Maxwell, stepped down as CEO of CargoMetrics, a hedge fund he had founded.
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Locals in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea said Ghislaine Maxwell had kept a low profile, went by "G" instead of her full first name, and had been seen on several occasions walking a Vizsla dog along the beach.
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Borgerson and Ghislaine Maxwell filed documents in Massachusetts Land Court about Borgerson's residence, known as Phippin House, during a civil dispute with neighbours regarding rescinded access rights to the larger Sharksmouth Estate in 2019.
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Borgerson stated in August 2019 that Ghislaine Maxwell was not currently living at the home and that he did not know where she was.
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Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a remote 156-acre property in Bradford, New Hampshire in late 2019, where she used former British military personnel as personal security until her arrest in July 2020.
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At the time of her arraignment, federal prosecutors stated that Ghislaine Maxwell was married; she did not disclose the identity of her spouse, or their respective finances.