Her mother, Elisabeth Maxwell, wrote in her memoir that she and Robert were so focused on their injured son that their baby daughter was overlooked. Her brother Michael was severely brain damaged in a car accident just days later at age 15, although he lived for another seven years. Ghislaine was Robert Maxwell's youngest child, born on Christmas Day 1961. She spent the first half of her life with her father, a rags-to-riches billionaire who looted his companies’ pension funds before dying a mysterious death when he fell off his superyacht - named The Lady Ghislaine. Maxwell grew up in a 51-room English country mansion called Headington Hill Hall, where politicians, business leaders and newspaper editors attended lavish parties. Many have testified that they believed Epstein and Ghislaine were boyfriend and girlfriend One photo shows Maxwell kissing the pedophile's cheek with her arms wrapped around him. It was her years-long romantic and business relationship with one man - Jeffrey Epstein - the late pedophile whose apparent prison suicide in 2019 left a target on his 'partner in crime's' back.Įven with the shocking charges leveled against her, Maxwell maintained her innocence against claims she procured young women for Epstein and engaging in sexual assault against them herself. Maxwell, who just turned 60 on Christmas Day, was found guilty on five of six counts on Wednesday - a spectacular downfall for the former London society girl who later moved into the highest circles of New York's social scene.īut how did the silver-spoon-born daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - accustomed to private jets, yachts and beach homes - fall from grace? Once a well-heeled socialite and daughter of a British publishing magnate, Ghislaine Maxwell now faces the rest of her life in a tiny prison cell after being convicted of sex trafficking charges. Maxwell grew up in a 51-room English country mansion called Headington Hill Hall, where politicians, business leaders and newspaper editors attended lavish parties.She maintains her innocence on all charges of procuring young women for Epstein and engaging in sexual assault against them herself.Maxwell, once a well-heeled member of London and New York's social scene, celebrate her 60th birthday on Christmas Day from the confines of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Brooklyn. She faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.A jury of six men and six women found the British socialite guilty on five of six counts - all except enticing an individual under the age of 17 to travel to with intent to engage in illegal sex act.Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking charges on Wednesday after six days of deliberation.From private jets to prison: How British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, was to the manor born but will now live out her days in a 10x12ft jail cell after guilty verdict in sex trafficking trial
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