The sordid saga of Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell arrived in New York some 30 years ago as the young and glamorous emissary of her wealthy and influential father, an international man of mystery. Robert Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hyman Binyamin Hoch in the meager circumstances of an Eastern European shtetl. He lost most of his family in the Holocaust, escaped the Nazis and earned combat honors while fighting as a volunteer in the British Army under his new name, Ivan du Maurier.
After Germanys surrender, the resourceful young man persuaded the Czechoslovakian communist government to supply air power to the Israelis in their 1948 war for nationhood. At the same time, he was establishing himself under yet another name, Maxwell, amid the battered and dazed society of post-war England. He became a publisher, a dealmaker, a member of Parliament, an empire builder, a cooker of ledger books, a swashbuckler who persuaded the Oxfordshire council to lease to him a vast mansion donated for more civic purposes by the family of Lady Ottoline Morrell, whose salon hosted the likes of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot.
The youngest of Maxwells nine children, Ghislaine, hosted parties at the mansion, known as Headington Hill Hall, while attending nearby Oxford University. Thus she learned the power of money in making glamorous friends. Where the money came from was of little importance her father was known to British satirists as the bouncing Czech on account of his finagled finances. Access to wealth made one matter.
She delivered magnificently on her New York assignment, introducing the Maxwell brand to Manhattans high society in time for daddys purchase of the most widely circulated newspaper in the city at the time, the Daily News, in 1991. Maxwells London tabloid war with Rupert Murdoch was going global. But no sooner had father and daughter scored their coup than it all fell to pieces. Mysterious to the end, Maxwell pitched over the side of his massive yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, on a quiet night off the coast of Spain as his empire collapsed into a rubble of looted pension funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sordid-saga-of-ghislaine-maxwell/2020/07/03/8e3fe18c-bd51-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
FM123
(10,053 posts)So why in the world did she come back to the U.S. and settle down two states away from NY where there were all kinds warrants out for her arrest? You would think she would hide out in some place tropical and exotic like the Maldives or Madagascar where there is no extradition treaty, why even come back to the States, much less NH?
She could have gone anywhere. So strange.
canetoad
(17,154 posts)That the FBI knew exactly where she was the whole time since Epstein's death.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Talk about scandals....money, power, a Murdoch rival, etc. He was a real piece of work. Ripping off pensions, drowning from a heart attack while peeing on his yacht named after his daughter.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"the bouncing Czech" by the Brits!!
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2012-05-01-sns-rt-newscorp-hackingmaxwelll5e8g18z9-20120501-story.html
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)Its something the public should know, why former spook Donald Barr hired college dropout Jeffrey Epstein to teach high school kids at the Dalton School.
Maybe not Bill Barr, but it seems someone made certain Epstein wouldnt get a chance to answer the question at his trial. This made his suicide odd, as Epstein hadnt been run out of money or been found guilty of the latest charges facing him.
markwbradley
(20 posts)Does anyone really believe this woman will remain alive long enough to spill the beans on Washingtons High and Horny Moghuls of Manipulation?