CASHTA LA VISTA
She’d slithered away, continuing a life of privilege while victims live with the trauma
A GROUP of 14 lucky pals in the sleepy Spanish town of Mayorga scooped nearly €145million on the Euromillions.
Speculation remains rife over how she acquired so much money, given her lack of work or known paid roles, with many believing the financier paid to keep her close.
Even after their relationship ended she helped manage his homes, facilitate his relationships and recruit masseuses.
If found guilty, it would see one of the most dramatic falls from grace.
Even before her involvement with Epstein, Maxwell was well known following the death of her father.
When the press baron fell overboard his yacht off the Canary Islands in November 1991, leaving a €516m hole in the pension funds of his companies including the Daily Mirror, speculation swirled.
Questions remain whether it was suicide or murder but as his body was pulled from the Atlantic, his daughter, who he named his boat the Lady Ghislaine after, was waiting on the dockside.
Overnight, the Czech immigrant, who had escaped the Nazis and even served as a member of parliament, left his family legacy and name in ruins.
As the favourite of his nine children, Ghislaine – pronounced ghee-lane – refused to believe he took his own life. She was left with only a €110,000-a-year trust fund.
Brought up in Headington Hill Hall east of Oxford, said by her father to be “the best council house in the country” after renting it for €2,700 a year from the council, she had a private education before going to Oxford University. She
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moved to London in the mid-1980s. During her 20s, she was named director of her dad’s Oxford United football club and founded the Kit Kat Club for Women, which aimed to support working women.
She bought a €2.2m mews property in South Kensington where during the 1990s US prosecutors say she abused one of three girls she is accused of grooming.
Her indictment says: “Maxwell groomed and befriended Minor Victim 3 in London between approximately 1994 and 1995. Maxwell introduced