Ghislaine Maxwell is notorious as Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice – but it is claimed she dreamed of being the sex-trafficking paedophile’s wife.
The four-part documentary Ghislaine: Partner In Crime digs into the British socialite’s past, revealing how her charmed life started to crumble following the death of her father, fraudster media tycoon Robert, in 1991.
The family was plunged into scandal as it emerged he had plundered hundreds of millions from his employees’ pensions.
Maxwell fled to New York and found a new billionaire to look after her – financier Epstein.
Journalist R Couri Hay, a former pal, tells the show, “Ghislaine wanted to marry Epstein. She wanted that ring on her finger... She was so in love with Jeffrey she did unspeakable things.”
Epstein committed suicide in jail in 2019, aged 66, while awaiting trial. Last year, a New York City court found Maxwell, 61, guilty of five of the six sex-trafficking charges brought against her and she got 20 years.
But speaking from jail last week to Jeremy Kyle on TalkTV, Maxwell, who has always maintained her innocence, said:
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