10 Facts About Kevin Maxwell

Kevin Francis Herbert Maxwell was born on 1959 and is a British businessman.

Kevin Maxwell was born on 1959 and is the eighth child of Elisabeth, a French-born Holocaust scholar, and Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born British publishing tycoon.

Kevin Maxwell's father was Jewish and his mother was a French Protestant of Huguenot descent.

Kevin Maxwell spent most of his working life before 1991 employed by his father, including a spell as chairman of Oxford United FC Robert Maxwell was known for his domineering disposition and this included behaviour towards his children.

Kevin Maxwell was serving as Chairman of Kevin Maxwell Communications Corporation and at Macmillan Inc at the time of his father's death in 1991.

Robert Kevin Maxwell was found floating in the sea near the Canary Islands in proximity to his yacht Lady Ghislaine in November 1991.

Kevin Maxwell was later tried and, in 1996, was acquitted of fraud charges arising from his role in his father's companies.

Kevin Maxwell entered into a further arrangement over debts he accrued subsequently.

On 8 July 2011, as a result of an Insolvency Service investigation into the collapse of Syncro, a Manchester-based construction company, Kevin Maxwell was disqualified from being a company director for eight years.

In September 2018 Kevin Maxwell announced that he and his brother Ian had founded a UK think tank called Combating Jihadist Terrorism with the aim of better understanding terrorism and its causes.