Robert Maxwell, a British media mogul of Czechoslovak descent, and Elisabeth, a researcher of French origin, are the parents of Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell, a former British socialite and convicted sex offender who is the ninth and youngest child.
In 2021, she was convicted of child sex trafficking in association with the wealthy and already incarcerated sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On June 28, 2022, a New York court handed down a 20-year prison term to the defendant.
Ghislaine Maxwell was born in 1961 in Maisons-Laffitte, a town in the Yvelines region of France. Maxwell, a native of France, was brought up in Oxford.
She spent the 1980s as a student at Oxford’s Balliol College, where she rose to prominence in London’s social scene.
Maxwell continued to work for her father, Robert Maxwell, when he passed away in 1991, moving to New York City where she continued to live as a socialite and began dating Epstein.
Maxwell was arrested on July 2, 2020, and federal authorities in the United States charged her with luring children and trafficking underage girls for sex because of her connections to Epstein.
The judge denied her bail owing to her flight risk because of her “totally opaque” finances, skill at evading capture, and the fact that France does not extradite its citizens.
On December 29, 2021, she was found guilty on five of the six counts, including one for trafficking in child sex. For two counts of perjury connected to Epstein’s exploitation of young girls, she will stand trial once more in court.
In order to fulfill her 20-year prison term for arranging for tycoon Jeffrey Epstein to abuse adolescent girls, Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a low-security facility.
The Bureau of Prisons reports that the 60-year-old has been transferred to FCI Tallahassee in Florida. On July 17, 2037, she will be eligible for release. This month, the humiliated socialite filed an appeal against her conviction and imprisonment.
