...Ghislaine Maxwell Has More Skeletons in Her Family Closet Than a House of Horrors

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Jeffrey Epstein ‘Friend’ Ghislaine Maxwell Has More Skeletons in Her Family Closet Than a House of Horrors
The late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime companion and alleged procurer comes from a clan with a penchant for sex, intrigue, science, and illusions.
Dana Kennedy
Published 08.18.19 4:59AM ET


MEYREUIL, France—Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, comes from a family by turns brilliant and accomplished, deceptive and doomed. Her backstory is full of sex and science, money and magical illusions. And today she is the world’s most wanted woman—at least by the media and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

She is the youngest child of the notorious and disgraced British media mogul Robert Maxwell, rumored after his mysterious death in 1991 to have been an Israeli spy. She was the alleged paramour-turned-pimp for Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire pedophile who reportedly committed suicide in his cell on August 10.

But there are no known criminal charges against her, only allegations in a civil suit. Indeed, there is speculation she may be cooperating with federal prosecutors. And while she might have decided to hide out here in Provence at her sister’s house in the shadow of Cézanne’s favorite mountain, she was spotted Thursday in California eating a burger while reading a book about CIA heroes.

Ghislaine Maxwell, in short, is a survivor.

“In moments of greatest adversity, that’s where they’re the coolest; it’s bred into the family,” an executive with one of Robert Maxwell’s media companies said after his drowning upended his media empire and forced his wife and children to clean up the mess. “Maxwell’s whole life was ‘Never panic.’”

As we looked for her in France in recent days, she was, of course, nowhere to be seen. But we did discover enough skeletons in the family closet (including those of her in-laws and their families) to fill a house of horrors.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-friend-ghislaine-maxwell-has-more-skeletons-in-her-family-closet-than-a-house-of-horrors?ref=home

[PCIntern]

1. Thank you for posting this and the link

Very enlightening

[pecosbob]

2. It's all like a bad Ian Fleming rip-off.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. From Wikipedia: Maxwell was used as inspiration for the villainous media baron Elliot Carver ...

... in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies as well as its novelisation and video game adaptation.[57][58] At the film's end, M orders a story spun disguising Carver's demise, saying that Carver died after falling off his yacht in the South China Sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

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3. KR

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4. Horrible family.

“They attach themselves to bizarre psychopaths like their father,” says a researcher who delved into the family years ago. “Ghislaine wasn’t the only sister to hook up with a weird guy.”

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5. I looked into most of the names mentioned in the article ...

one that stands out is Al Seckle. Its well worth reading about him: a conman and expert on illusion who may have well faked his own death in 2015.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Odd to say so much about brothers-in-law, when her father is the famous one

He is the closest thing Britain has had in the past century to Trump. He obviously had a huge influence on Ghislaine (and she was his favourite, a la Ivanka - the boat from which he fell to his death was the |Lady Ghislaine), while brothers-in-law in a large, internationally-living family, would not be that close.

Robert Maxwell is very infamous. His stealing from his companies' pension funds is responsible for much of the legislation about the control of company pension funds in the UK. The bankruptcy of the family holding company was the largest Britain had ever seen (and his sonds Kevin and Ian are uncannily similar to Trump's elder 2 spawn). He was described by a government inquiry as " not in our opinion a person who can be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company" while he was the owner of Pergamon Press, a mainly scientific publishing company. He went on to buy Macmillan publishers, and the Daily Mirror - the 2nd bestselling paper in Britain at the time. He used the Mirror to present himself as a "campaigning man of the people".