She spent a large amount of time in the late 1980s aboard the yacht, which was equipped with a jacuzzi, sauna, gym and disco. According to Tom Bower, writing for The Sunday Times, in 1986 Robert invited her to the naming in her honour of his new yacht the Lady Ghislaine, at a shipyard in the Netherlands. She also worked at The European, a publication her father had established. She founded a women's club named after the original Kit-Cat Club and was a director of Oxford United Football Club during her father's ownership. Maxwell was a prominent member of the London social scene in the 1980s. Career The Dancing Hare yacht, formerly known as the Lady Ghislaine The Times reported that he did not permit Maxwell to bring her boyfriends home or to be seen with them publicly, after she started attending Oxford University. According to Tatler, Maxwell recalled that her father installed computers at Headington in 1973 and her first job was training to use a Wang 2200 and later programming code. Maxwell had a close relationship with her father and was reportedly his favourite. She attended Marlborough College to study for A-Levels, before going on to earn a degree in Modern History with Languages from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1985. Maxwell studied first at Oxford High School for Girls in North Oxford and then, aged nine, was enrolled at Edgarley Hall preparatory school in Somerset, followed by Headington School at age thirteen. Her mother said that all her children were brought up as Anglicans. Throughout childhood, Maxwell lived with her family in Oxford at Headington Hill Hall, a 53-room mansion, where the offices of Pergamon Press, a publishing company run by her father, were also located. Her mother later reflected that the accident had an effect on the entire family, and surmised that Ghislaine had shown signs of anorexia while still a toddler.
Maxwell was born two days before a car accident that left her fifteen-year-old brother Michael in a prolonged coma until his death in 1967. Her father was from a Jewish family, and her mother was of Huguenot (French Protestant) descent. Ghislaine Maxwell was born in 1961, in Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, France, the ninth and youngest child of Elisabeth ( née Meynard), a French-born scholar, and Robert Maxwell ( né Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch), a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor.
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She faces a second criminal trial for two charges of lying under oath about Epstein's abuse of underage girls. In December 2021, she was convicted on five out of six counts, including one of sex trafficking of a minor. She was denied bail as a flight risk, with the judge expressing concerns regarding her "completely opaque" finances, her skill at living in hiding, and the fact that France does not extradite its citizens.
In July 2020, Maxwell was arrested and charged by the federal government of the United States with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls, related to her association with Epstein. Maxwell is a naturalised US citizen and retains both French and British citizenship. Following sex trafficking allegations being brought by prosecutors against Epstein in July 2019, the organisation announced cessation of operations the same month. In 2012, Maxwell founded a non-profit group for the protection of oceans.
Maxwell worked for her father until his death in 1991 she then moved to New York City, where she continued living as a socialite and had a relationship with Epstein. In the 1980s she attended Balliol College, Oxford, and became a prominent member of London's social scene. īorn in France and raised in Oxford, Maxwell is the daughter of British media proprietor Robert Maxwell and French-born researcher of the holocaust, Elisabeth Maxwell. In June 2022, she was sentenced in a New York court to twenty years' imprisonment. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell ( / ˌ ɡ iː ˈ l eɪ n, - ˈ l ɛ n/ ghee- LAYN, - LEN born 25 December 1961) is a British convicted sex offender and former socialite.
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