Ghislaine Maxwell profile: who is the British socialite associated with Jeffrey Epstein?

she's the socialite who was a big name in American and British high society for decades hosting glamorous dinner parties and hanging out with powerful people but des Gill a Maxwell use her connections for something unimaginable she stands accused of grooming underage girls for her ex-boyfriend and confidant Jeffrey Epstein yet while her name is now infamous Jillian Maxwell Neal a Maxwell heel in Maxwell she's still somewhat of a riddle wrapped in a mystery who managed to evade the FBI for nearly a year so who exactly is Gail a metal key Laine Noel Marion Maxwell was born in France on Christmas Day in 1961 the ninth and youngest child of Elizabeth and Robert Maxwell a newspaper Baron and member of parliament but more about him later she grew up in headington Hill who in Oxford a lavish mansion with more than 50 rooms she went first to Oxford High School from there she went to Maura College one of the most expensive public schools in the country she then studied at Balliol College Oxford it's widely reported that Gill aim was her father's favorite child hence he named his luxury yacht after her in an interview of Tatler in 2000 she called her father inspiring Robert Maxwell's biographer wrote that from the time Gillan was at Oxford her father forbade her boyfriends from coming to the house or being seen with her he suspected that any man seeking his daughter was a gold digger reports suggest Robert wanted his youngest daughter to marry John F Kennedy Jr thus creating a powerful dynasty indeed to understand ghilane we need to know more about her father how he came into wealth and how he made the Maxwell name a fixture of British high society his wife has been the stuff of novels so remarkable was his rise from poverty to millionaire and his fall and his ability to bounce back again Yan Ludovic Hawke was born into a Jewish Orthodox family in then Czechoslovakia in 1923 he managed to flee during the war however his parents and much of his immediate family died in the Holocaust his wife Elizabeth said that when she studied her husband's genealogy I put a little Star of David in front of all the people who had been murdered in the camps and when I unfolded it it was like a shower of yellow stars right through three generations Elizabeth would later devote her life to honoring those who died in the Holocaust and in 1987 she founded the Holocaust and genocide studies journal Robert himself would help Soviet Jews move to Israel and invested heavily in the country during the war Maxwell fought for both the Czechoslovak Resistance and then the British Army and became a naturalized British citizen shortly after the end of the war changing his name to Robert Maxwell he ran a powerful publishing company Pergamon press and that no one has any doubt that Pergamon is the sound business and served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Buckingham in the 1960s then in 1984 he bought the Mirror Group Newspapers becoming the media Baron rival to Rupert Murdoch this quest of yours for a national newspaper is it because you really are after power well no it is not because I'm after power I certainly would hope to make a small contribution with the help of these newspapers if I become proprietor to halting the retreat of Great Britain which has gone on for so long that the natives have forgotten that they're going backwards tough at the party you think you are how deaf I am whether I'm friend ear brows you must ask those people that work with me I tend not to have rise Maxwell also owned Oxford United and Derby County but he was prevented by the authorities from adding Watford to the list if my family hadn't got involved an Oxford Oxford would have been finished same applies to Derby for his daughter Maxwell made her director of his Football Club Oxford United but she also went to her own way founding something called the Kit Kat club a group that brought together powerful woman from the Arts the author and a Pasternak attended the meetings and told the Telegraph key Lane was very mindful of who you were your status your importance I think it was more a way of advancing herself making contacts that could be useful to her but tragedy struck in 1991 Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht the lady ghilane off the Canary Islands eleven o'clock a business call from New York was put through to mr. Maxwell's stateroom that went unanswered alerting the captain who raised the alarm an errand C search was launched several hours later mr. Maxwell's body was found by the pilot of a Spanish sea rescue helicopter winched aboard and taken to Las Palmas his funeral took place in Jerusalem and was attended by both the Israeli president and prime minister he was then buried on the Mount of Olives but it emerged that Maxwell had left debts of 400 million pounds and that led to conspiracy theories about his death there were reports he was the agent for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and had threatened to divulge secrets thus prompting his murder one day they make him a KGB agent the next days of Mossad agent said he's a CIA agent the pro man I mean he would have had a life dedicated to spying you know and when you think of what he pushed into his life where on earth would he have found the time without him somehow life is cold out there and it was revealed that Maxwell had illegally taken more than 300 million pounds worth of pension money leaving thousands of employees fearing the worst for their future in 1988 he was defrauding his staff at Mirror Group Newspapers of their pension funds but he still filmed this corporate video effectively leading his lambs to the slaughter I'm addressing you today that the purpose of persuading that it is in your and your family's best interest to remain a member of whichever pension scheme you are a member of agua it took them nearly four years to receive compensation for the funds that Maxwell had taken from them the the pensioner Amiens own heart who knows the trauma that we went through and to say that you know oh well it's all over no it never will be over not in my eyes no don't think it was 30 mm how about you leave it in the aftermath of his death his sons Kevin and Ian declared bankruptcy both sons went on trial for fraud but both were later acquitted but what about ghilane the death of her father was not just a personal tragedy it changed her life she appeared on the boat two days after his death to deliver a statement and told reporters I think he was murdered also take this opportunity to thank all the many hundreds of people who has sent messages of support for the socialite ghilane the Maxwell name was not what it once had been in England and she started a new life in New York but who did she begin this next chapter with now she was without the gaze and guidance of her powerful and beloved father well in November 1992 over a year after her father's death an article appeared in the mail on Sunday about how ghilane had been spotted getting on a Concorde flight from London to New York traveling with her was a graying plumpish middle-aged American businessman who managed to avoid the photographer's his name is Jeffrey Epstein a shadowy almost maverick New York property developer who for over a year has helped ghilane become a coveted fixture on the Manhattan social scene during the last year say friends she has fallen in love with him and the couple are inseparable some acquaintances claim the Epstein controlled Maxwell and that he was an incredibly manipulative man other reports suggest Maxwell worship Epson were friends saying d'Alene thought they might get married one day however according to charges filed in New York Helene Maxwell is now accused of facilitating epstein sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple girls from 1994 to 1997 the charges continued Maxwell assisted and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls by among other things helping Epstein to recruit groom and ultimately abused victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18 Maxwell denies everything but who was Epstein himself born in Brooklyn he was a college dropout who found himself at Bear Sterns in the 1970s before founding his own company if ghilane is somewhat of a mystery so too was Epstein who owned private jets mansions and his own Island and yet the source of much of his wealth was always unknown but it's reported that ghilane offered Epstein a bit of glamour and someone who could connect him to high society in New York and beyond an investment banker who went to a dinner party hosted by Epstein and ghilane said that the real drawer of those events was galiyan herself he said Maxwell seemed to be half ex-girlfriend half employee half best friend and fixer figures with connections to both Maxwell Epstein include Donald Trump and Bill Clinton one of Maxwell's contacts was Prince Andrew who said he met Epstein through Killeen in 1999 and the threa believed to have met up on several occasions and it was in gilens town house in London that Virginia G Frey alleges she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew Buchan in palace says the Duke of York emphatically denies having any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia of Jaffray and their any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation in 2000 Maxwell moved into a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan just a few blocks from Epstein's mansion it was this mansion that was named in court documents relating to max was arrest it was here that Epstein's victims were groomed and or abused along with his other residences in a state in Palm Beach Florida a ranch in Santa Fe New Mexico as well as Maxwell's personal London residence the court documents say that ghilane helped to procure the underage women for Epstein after developing a rapport with victims Maxwell then trying to normalize sexual abuse with a minor victim through a process known as booming for example Maxwell would discuss sexual topics with the victim and undress in front of the victim or be present for sex acts involving the minor victim's identity of course Epstein himself was originally charged in 2006 and pleaded guilty two years later to procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18 he was sentenced to over a year in prison but ghilane appeared unaffected by Epstein's form here she is at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton in 2010 and she appeared at numerous public events on both sides of the Atlantic between 2009 and 2013 she also found the Terramar project during this time an organization that sought to protect the world's oceans on one of my first submarine dives I was absolutely so excited I thought my goodness I'm going to see a new sea creature I'm gonna be this amazing Explorer and if I was I went down into the deep and I went down to over 1,500 feet and at 1,500 feet I switched on the lights hoping to see a new mythical sea creature but in fact what I saw was a plastic hanger I was so absolutely devastated that it was at that moment that I realized that I was really going to dedicate the rest of my life to taking an involvement with and bringing an education around the ocean it was only until the Epstein scandal once again emerged that she retreated from public life beginning in 2014 Virginia drew Frey accused Maxwell of acting as Epstein's madam Maxwell said she was innocent with drew Frey then suing ghilane for defamation Maxwell and Zhu Frey settled that case in 2017 in a deposition from July 2016 Elaine said under oath that she was unaware of epstein sexual abuse quote she said I wasn't aware that he was having sexual activities with anyone when I was with him other than myself she was then asked I want to be sure that I'm clear it's your testimony that in the 1990s and 2000's you were not aware that mr. Epstein was having sexual activities with anyone other than yourself and the blonde and brunette on those few occasions when they were involved with you ghilane said that is my testimony that is correct however that testimony is now being used in the case against her with d'Alene been accused of perjury epstein himself was arrested in New Jersey on July the 6th 2019 on sex trafficking charges and transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August the 10th he was found unconscious in his cell and declared dead after Ebstein's death ghilane was nowhere to be seen for nearly a whole year this well-connected socialite was now a hermit with no seemingly fixed abode but the FBI said it had been discretely keeping tabs on her and she had slithered away to a gorgeous property and after nearly one year ghilane was found here in a tucked away property in New Hampshire called tucked away the FBI accuses her of the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple girls including some as young as 14 she now faces up to 35 years in prison if found guilty of assisting Epstein's abuse of minors she has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing it is the latest shocking chapter in the life of someone born into huge privilege and who had huge power influence but is now accused of helping Epstein commit the most unspeakable crimes you you

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Length: 13min 30sec (810 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 13 2020