Ghislaine Maxwell was once a fixture at every major party in London and New York. She had powerful friends, a British accent that turned heads in the U.S., and connections to the world’s most famous people, from Bill Clinton to Prince Andrew. But in 2021, a jury found her guilty of grooming and trafficking young girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier. She was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Maxwell worked for her father, Robert Maxwell, 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. Maxwell founded the non-profit TerraMar Project for the protection of oceans in 2012. Ghislaine Maxwell was born on Christmas Day 1961. Three days later, a car carrying her 15-year-old brother Michael crashed into a lorry along a foggy Oxfordshire road. Michael Maxwell would spend ... Who is Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend who is in federal spotlight again? Maxwell shared a long-standing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged in 2019 with sex trafficking and abusing underage girls. Though they dated briefly in the 1990s, they reportedly stayed close for years.
