Ghislaine Maxwell exposed THE FALL OF EPSTEIN’S RIGHT-HAND WOMAN
There’s a tantalising story that has long been doing the rounds of New York society about how Jeffrey Epstein first entered the life of Maxwell.
On November 5, 1991, the body of Maxwell’s father Robert – newspaper tycoon and, it would shortly transpire, arch embezzler – was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Tenerife, having fallen from his 55-metre luxury yacht.
The following day, his distraught daughter arrived in Tenerife by private jet. Boarding the Lady Ghislaine, which had been named in her honour, she went to her father’s quarters. Searching through his private papers, she found a reference to a
New York financier who had been particularly helpful to him in squirrelling away misbegotten funds offshore.
Shortly afterwards, Ghislaine flew to New York to escape the shame of her father and make a new life for herself. One of the first people she reached out to was that financier. His name was Jeffrey Epstein.
The account has the savour of something almost predestined: a woman tragically caught in the orbit of two powerful men; one who had shaped her past, the other who would determine her future.
Robert Maxwell was the central figure in his daughter’s life, a powerful, domineering man who she feared and adored. Jeffrey Epstein was to become, in many ways, his replacement; a man for
