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Ghislaine Maxwell looked the part and that’s all that matters


by Kate Demolder
24th Jul 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell. File photo dated 05/06/91 of Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Robert Maxwell, arriving at Epsom Racecourse. British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is to be charged over her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of girls by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said. Issue date: Thursday July 2, 2020. See PA story POLICE Epstein. Photo credit should read: Jim James/PA Wire PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 2, 2020. See PA story POLICE Epstein. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA Wire URN:54405925 (Press Association via AP Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell: How a stylist, upper-middle-class and well-groomed woman lent the currency of her social class to the task of prettifying an abhorrent operation.

On June 28, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for aiding the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing teenage girls, in what a judge called a “horrific scheme” that inflicted “incalculable” harm on victims. Maxwell (60) a former socialite and daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell, was convicted in December of five charges, including sex trafficking a minor, for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual...

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