Many others were not prepared to go in front of the camera. Telling reminiscences come from two of Maxwell’s former associates, writer Anna Pasternak, who knew her as an undergraduate, and the British aristocrat Lady Victoria Hervey. Although she was active “on the scene”, we know of no prominent partners she went out with in public until Epstein.” We did not find much evidence of other serious relationships with men. “It seemed the right time to ask who this woman really is. “For the first time, many of the people who knew her at university at Oxford felt they could open up,” said Cooper. A socially confident partygoer, she appears an oddly nervous public speaker.Īmong other startling elements in the series are scenes from her father’s private 65th birthday party and testimony from his former colleagues, including journalist Peter Jay. A revealing sequence shows Maxwell speaking to a large audience about her now defunct organisation, TerraMar. It also covers Maxwell’s later attempts to distance herself from Epstein, when she set up an environmental marine charity and began a discreet new relationship with a tech entrepreneur. It tracks the heiress from her time at Oxford University to the centre of a high-profile social network in New York and Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein was visited by a constant stream of young women.įormer staff allege that Maxwell would go out in a limousine in the evenings, looking for what she described as “nubiles” to bring back to Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, ostensibly to audition for photographic work.
The three-part documentary, to be screened on Sky from 28 June, focuses on Maxwell’s career as the youngest child of a corrupt media mogul.
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Maxwell’s trial is likely to take place in the autumn.
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Her alleged crimes are said to have been committed with Epstein, her long-term partner and a serial sex offender, who was found dead in his prison cell in 2019 awaiting trial. Maxwell, 59, is now in jail in New York, facing charges as a co-conspirator in the sexual trafficking of young women and underaged girls. Eventually we got to the point where we could assert this fact, although we still don’t know exactly when they met or when their relationship started.” “Interviews with so many allowed our team to do an amazing amount of cross-referencing of testimony, and so we started to suspect that she had known Epstein longer, right back in the late 1980s when he was doing business in London. There is always a reason for that, and it certainly set us looking into things,” Emma Cooper, executive producer of Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s Shadow told the Observer.
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“We were able to use court documents which are full of redacted names. And it has emerged that her famous and rich friends, including Prince Andrew, were being used to build Epstein’s influential network from the 1980s onwards. Researchers working on the documentary have spoken to more than 200 sources over several years to build up a clearer picture of the society fixer.
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