Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Madam

What We Know About Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Madam
By Amanda Arnold@aMandolinz 

Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo: Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images

On Saturday night, billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges that he recruited dozens of underage girls into a sex-trafficking ring in Florida and New York between 2002 and 2005. 

The details of his indictment became public on Monday morning when federal prosecutors unsealed the sex-trafficking charges against him. 

Though Epstein is the only person named, many powerful people with ties to the 66-year-old are likely feeling a little nervous about the consequences of the billionaire’s arrest — including Ghislaine Maxwell, a confidante of Epstein’s who has been connected to him for more than two decades and is alleged to have played a critical role in recruiting and grooming underage girls into his sex-trafficking ring. 

Though Maxwell is a key figure in the Epstein case, she has not yet been arrested and has repeatedly denied accusations against her. As the details of Epstein’s alleged crimes become clearer, however, we’re likely to hear her name come up again and again.


 

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Link:
https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-alleged-madam.html

 

"Maxwell is the daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell — in short, she comes from money. Per the Wall Street Journal, she grew up and attended university in England, then moved to the United States in 1991 after her father fell to his death from his yacht, the 'Lady Ghislaine.'”
EXCEPT that she doesn't "come from money," since her father death -- almost certainly a suicide -- was due to his being flat-broke, with a mountain of debts he couldn't pay; even during his most successful period, Maxwell, born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch in Czechoslovakia, was known as "the bouncing Czech" because he was often unable to meet his financial commitments, his publishing empire being largely the proverbial house of cards.