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Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British convicted child sex trafficker and former socialite. In 2021, she was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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business · British socialite and child sex trafficker (born 1961) · socialite · businessperson · also Ghislaine Maxwell, Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell, Maxwell
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2026· 8 entries
Yahoo: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Desperate Bid to Hide Jeffrey Epstein Files Crushed by Judge
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. President Donald Trump appointed convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell's former defense attorney as acting attorney general to head the Department of Justice in April 2026.” False.
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Forbes contacted 25 Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, only 8 said that they were against the pardon
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Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically shows an October 2002 email from future U.S. first lady Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, to Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister Isabel founded and owns Amber Alerts, the nationwide alerts system used to find missing children.” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows real clip of Ghislaine Maxwell in Quebec City” AI-generated.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A video authentically showed Ghislaine Maxwell walking freely around in Quebec, Canada, in early 2026.” Fake.
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2025· 8 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically showed U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts seated next to Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.” Miscaptioned.
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Reported claimRated This isn’t true. The photograph is actually of Mr Johnson and his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while they were at university together in 1986. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A picture shows Boris Johnson with Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell.” This isn’t true. The photograph is actually of Mr Johnson and his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while they were at university together in 1986..
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Lead Stories rated the claim “The Federal Bureau of Prison inmate search database said Ghislaine Maxwell was "Not in BOP custody" on Friday, August 1, 2025” Real Image.
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Snopes rated the claim “Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of the late, disgraced financier Jeffry Epstein, was moved to a low-security prison in Florida in July 2025.” Outdated.
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Snopes rated the claim “An old photo authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump with convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “A video authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump pointing at a preteen girl while standing with Ghislaine Maxwell.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “In 2019, Virginia Giuffre, who accused New York financier Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, of sexually abusing her as a teen, posted: "In no way, shape or form am I suicidal."” Correct Attribution.
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Farmer sued the federal government in the US District Court for the District of Columbia for failing to protect her and other victims
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2024· 2 entries
With Stein receiving compensation without admission of wrongdoing by Maxwell or the estate
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Had defended Trump and in 2025 was appointed by Trump in his inaugural cleansing of the US Department of Justice, interviewed Maxwell on 24 and 25 July 2025
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2023· 2 entries
Elizabeth Stein filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Maxwell and Epstein's estate
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Reportedly converted to Judaism in prison
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2022· 3 entries
By her attorneys legal firm Haddon, Morgan, and Foreman in County District Court in Denver, Colorado for more than $878,000 in unpaid legal fees
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Maxwell told Daphne Barak that "If I could go back today, I would avoid meeting [Epstein], and I would say that that would be the greatest mistake I've ever made, and I would make different choices for where I would work
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The lawfirm Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer dropped Maxwell as a client after alleging she refused to pay her legal fees
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2021· 3 entries
Via a prison call, as noted in her trial proceedings
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Stein had been deemed ineligible for compensation from the Epstein victims fund
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Was convicted of child sex trafficking, and in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison
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2020· 1 entry
When she was alleged to have taken refuge in Israel following Epstein's death
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2019· 2 entries
Borgerson stated in August 2019 that Maxwell was not currently living at the home and that he did not know where she was.
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And 2020, including one by Farmer and from Araoz
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2017· 2 entries
From Ransome against Maxwell, US District Judge John G
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Sarah Ransome filed a suit, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm
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2015· 3 entries
“If I could go back today, I would avoid meeting [Epstein], and I would say that that would be the greatest mistake I”
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Maxwell rejected allegations that she had acted as a procurer for Epstein and denied that she had "facilitated Prince Andrew's [alleged] acts of sexual abuse"
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Also alleged that Maxwell and Borgerson had attempted to shield her real estate assets in limited liability companies in an effort to protect them from creditors like the law firm
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2013· 1 entry
Maxwell was an honoured guest at the Clinton Global Initiative conference, by late 2015 she had largely retreated from attending social functions
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2012· 1 entry
Maxwell founded the TerraMar Project, a nonprofit organisation that advocated the protection of oceans
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2010· 2 entries
Maxwell helped Waitt to obtain and renovate a luxury yacht, the Plan B, and used it for travel to France and Croatia before their relationship ended in late 2010 or early 2011.
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Maxwell had agreed to provide a deposition in the case but reportedly left the country one day before Edwards was scheduled to fly to New York to take her deposition, "claiming she needed to return to the United Kingdom
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2008· 1 entry
Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and served 13 months of an 18-month prison sentence
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2006· 1 entry
And trained by Maxwell with step-by-step instructions on how to provide sexual services for Epstein
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2003· 1 entry
Maxwell was romantically linked for several years, until 2010 to Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway Computers
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2001· 2 entries
According to Maxwell, she stopped having physical relations with Epstein in 2001.
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“Virginia [Giuffre] is an absolute liar and everything she has said is a lie. Therefore, based on those lies I cannot speculate on what anybody else did or didn’t do … everything she said is false.”
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2000· 2 entries
Maxwell and Epstein attended a party thrown by Andrew at the Queen's Sandringham House estate in Norfolk, reportedly for Maxwell's 39th birthday
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Moved into a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) townhouse on East 65th Street in Manhattan, New York City, six blocks from Epstein's mansion
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1999· 1 entry
When she was a minor, and then grooming her to provide sexual services for Epstein:
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1997· 2 entries
From at least 1997, Maxwell maintained a residence in Belgravia, London.
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“He did not commit suicide. That was just not consistent with his character. I think he was murdered.”
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1996· 2 entries
Where she claimed Maxwell sexually assaulted her
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Maxwell made headlines when she was arrested in West London for drink-driving; the media reported her occupation as "internet operator"
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1995· 2 entries
Maxwell and Epstein were guests of honour on a cruise organised by Lindsay Fox who had invited Rodney Adler and wife Lindi as well as James Packer and then-girlfriend Deni Hines
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Epstein renamed one of his companies the Ghislaine Corporation; based in Palm Beach, Florida, US, the company was dissolved in 1998
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1986· 1 entry
Robert invited her to the naming in her honour of his new yacht the Lady Ghislaine, at a shipyard in the Netherlands
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1985· 1 entry
From Balliol College of the University of Oxford
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1962· 1 entry
“a difficult break-up with Count Gianfranco Cicogna”
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1961· 2 entries
Born 1961-12-25.
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“, The Times (London, 17 October 2022). On the 2001 photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (then Prince Andrew), Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) and Maxwell. Another Times article says the interview was on TalkTV. If I could go back today, I would avoid meeting him, and I would say that that would be the greatest mistake I”
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