Ghislaine Maxwell, Exposed (An excerpt from 'Bonnie's Clyde')
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Exposed | |
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An excerpt from my book ‘Bonnie’s Clyde: The True Story of Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell’ | |
On April 1, 1954 a 30-year-old man, with an almost olive complexion, slightly receding black hair, 6’1, weighing approximately 215 lbs wearing a dark blue suit with a light blue shirt, and sporting a black Homburg hat, with black shoes arrived at Idlewild airport in New York City and made his way to The Plaza hotel in midtown Manhattan.The staff whispered amongst each other as they knew him from earlier trips. They braced for his two day stay as those who had dealings with him disliked him intensely for his arrogance. Perhaps this is why they were so accommodating when they were recruited by one of J. Edgar Hoover’s men at the FBI to supply details of the imposing dark-haired man with the olive complexion. The FBI had been watching Robert Maxwell’s every move as he was considered to be a person of interest and of concern for national security. J. Edgar Hoover had amassed everything there was to know about him. He had been born on June 10, 1923 in Czechoslovakia, served in the British Army during World War II, became a naturalized British subject, and was issued British passport number 507441 in London on August 12, 1953. By the 1950s, Hoover had built an enormous surveillance and information gathering system which included the ability to sexually blackmail every politician and person of importance in the United States. When Robert Maxwell arrived at Idlewood earlier in the day he had been questioned by one of the inspectors. In a composed, but well-rehearsed flurry, he answered the questions in a deep voice with a clipped British accent typical of the British upper class. “Yes, my first name is Enian and England has been my residence since birth.” The inspector would take note again that Maxwell was traveling under British Passport No. 507441, and saw his occupation jotted down as “Copy Director” for a company known as Simpkin-Marshall with an address at Baker Street, London, England. Maxwell had many aliases and changed what he said to people depending on his mood or need. His birth name was Jan Ludwig Hoch, but he used Ludwig Hoch, Captain Maxwell, Robert Maxwell, Ian Robert Maxwell, Wallace Chesteron and Enian Robert Maxwell interchangeably. After scribbling on his notepad, the inspector handed the passport back to Maxwell, and watched as the large man disappeared into the crowd. He then made a quick call to Washington and supplied the details of their exchange to the FBI agent as he had been instructed. J. Edgar Hoover knew all about surveillance. He’d been caught on video by members of La Cosa Nostra wearing a flouncy mini-skirt and taking part in an orgy with minor boys at the same hotel. In addition to his paid informants at The Plaza, Hoover went one step further installing two agents in a room adjacent to Maxwell’s. He wanted to know every detail: who Maxwell telephoned, what was said, where he went, who dropped by for a visit, who he had sex with, and what type of sex was had. Hoover took pride in his attention to detail, and if that failed, he would achieve his desired result through deceit or lying. This is the trait that helped him rise through the ranks at the State Department where the top men had as much disregard for the niceties of constitutional law as he did. | |
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By the time Ghislaine Maxwell was born on December 25, 1961 Robert Maxwell had been a spy since the second World War – nearly two decades. His cover as a publishing mogul and owner of Maxwell Communications Corporate (MCC) was how he was viewed by the world. Under this corporate umbrella he placed other holdings: Pergamon Press, Macmillan McGraw Hill, Mirror Group, Berlitz International and an assortment of others as the opportunity arose. As the youngest of nine children, Ghislaine learned early how to get her parents to dote on her. When she was three years old, her parents were deep in mourning over the death of her eldest son, and not paying enough attention to the pouting toddler. Ghislaine solemnly exclaimed, “Mommy, I exist.” It was from this point on that she learned one of the tricks she’d employ throughout her life to ensure she was the center of attention. Ironically, it would be this very trait that would ultimately lead to her downfall. Just before Ghislaine’s 30th birthday, on a cool and sunny day in early November 1991 her father, 68, took off on his yacht ‘The Lady Ghislaine’ to take a few days off and to meet secretly with members of the Mossad. Maxwell was hopeful they would keep their word and lend him the money he needed as his financial affairs had gotten out of hand. The banks were at his heels. He’d been using company funds as if they were his own and he was deeply in debt. Before leaving London, he made arrangements to see several people after his short respite. Not one to waste a moment of time, he arranged for his Gulfstream to wait for him in Tenerife upon his return, and other than fighting off a particularly nasty cold, he was in good spirits. However, Robert Maxwell never returned to London as he either fell or was pushed from his yacht which he’d named after his favorite child, Ghislaine, and drowned at sea. | |
Authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon wrote about his final hours in their book ‘Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy’.On November 4th at 4:40pm Maxwell had a conversation with his son, Ian, from his yacht ‘The Lady Ghislaine’. After exchanging business talk, they said their goodbyes. “See you tomorrow,” Ian said to his father. “You bet,” Maxwell replied. After midnight, five men, Israeli kidon slipped aboard and greeted Maxwell. They grabbed him, injected a lethal nerve agent in his neck behind his ear, and threw him overboard. He must have struggled once he hit the water as he tried to climb back onto the ship because his autopsy records show badly ripped muscles and internal bleeding. The official report is that he died of a heart attack, fell into the water and drowned. Ghislaine has always maintained that her father was murdered. | |
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Older brothers Ian and Kevin worked with Robert Maxwell in the family business and with their father suddenly gone they took the brunt of the plundering charges. On December 3, 1991, almost one month after the death of Maxwell Sr, Ian, 36, and Kevin, 33, resigned from their posts when it was disclosed that many millions of dollars had been stolen from the Mirror Group pension fund. This was followed with their embarrassing and unexpected arrests on June 19, 1992. Along with their financial advisor Larry Trachtenberg, they were all charged with conspiracy to defraud. The Maxwell brothers were found by the police at their expensive homes in upscale parts of London; Kevin in Chelsea, Ian in Islington. A news station filmed the police knocking at Kevin Maxwell’s $1.3 million townhome in the Chelsea district at 6:35 a.m. His wife, Pandora Maxwell, opened the second floor-window and yelled “We don’t get up for an hour” threatening to call the police. The plainclothes officers responded “We are the police.” Among the charges was the defrauding of the Swiss Bank Corporation in the amount of $35.5 million by misrepresenting ownership of stock in Berlitz International. The U.K. government helped pay for the Maxwell brothers defense because they were left destitute. On the first day of the trial, the judge, Sir Nicholas Phillips explained to the jury the Maxwell brothers could not afford lawyers. Both plead not guilty to having misused the companies’ pension funds. Kevin was silent in court as Ian openly wept. In 1996 the brothers were acquitted of fraud charges, although in a civil action Kevin was found to have misled the banks and misappropriating shares. During the investigation Kevin refused to answer the Department of Trade’s questions and accused them of being “oppressive and unfair”. A leaked report shows Kevin did his father’s bidding as the debts mounted up. Every morning father and son would have their talks with Maxwell senior giving instructions on what payments Kevin should make to banks and other operating companies. Kevin was the one who kept the banks at bay at his father’s request and knew the inner workings of all his father’s dealings. Ghislaine worked for her father at his flagship paper, The Daily Mirror, and was disliked by the employees for her “insufferable arrogance”. One of her father’s former secretaries complained, “She’d ask for a cigarette and walk off with the packet”. She was said to be quite different with men. One day a male visitor mistook her for a secretary and asked her to make copies. She dutifully complied. The cruelty was reserved for women while the good nature was reserved for men. This appears to be a reflection of her parent’s marriage. She mimicked the cruelty she saw her father inflict upon her mother on other women while seeking paternal approval from all men. On November 5, 1990 Ghislaine flew to New York from London (by Concorde) with an envelope containing shares of the language school Berlitz, owned by Maxwell’s publicly listed company. There were nine forged certificates and were part of her father’s plunder from shareholders. She returned to the Mirror Group headquarters with another envelope for her father which was part of his Berlitz school plunder. The article this information is linked to states Ghislaine might have “unknowingly” become enmeshed in a plot initiated by her father. This writer does not agree with that assessment. Ghislaine was close to 30 and had been a chip of her father’s old block from the time she was a young child. While her brothers Kevin and Ian were charged with this specific fraud, Ghislaine miraculously escaped scrutiny or her brothers simply refused to implicate her. During this time a friend of Ghislaine noted to the press that the Maxwell name was so detested in London that she walked around with a blond wig in an effort to go unrecognized. Not that Ghislaine was innocent of her father’s misdeeds. In a story for UPO it was reported that John Jackson of the Mirror watched “Ghislaine Maxwell pull papers from drawers and cabinets and throw them on the floor of the luxury yacht.” Further he claims Ghislaine then gave instructions to the crew, “I order you to shred immediately everything I have thrown on the floor.” Most, if not all, of the original newspapers have been scrubbed from the internet. However, Ghislaine “totally and utterly” denied the allegations. While her brothers were on trial, she was spotted in 1992 boarding the Concord on a flight to New York from London. A newspaper wrote, “Unnoticed by almost everybody, traveling with her was a greying, plumpish, middle-aged American businessman who managed to avoid the photographers.” The man was later identified as being Jeffrey Epstein. | |
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In 1999 Ghislaine Maxwell, 37, showed up with a Stars and Stripe bikini and a vintage Dior trench coat to a photo shoot to promote Sotheby’s vintage collection which featured many prominent New York society women and party girls. She invited the photographer to take suggestive photos of her while she was getting ready. Assistants were taken aback by her ‘intensely sexual vibe’. During the shoot she regaled the group with how she ‘put dildos at each place setting’ at a dinner party she hosted for young girls. She laughed when describing how one couple ‘demonstrated how to do the perfect fellatio on a man for all at the table.’ | |
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