Maxwell rested boot on Johnson’s thigh at university, claims sister

GHISLAINE MAXWELL rested her “high-heeled boot” on Boris Johnson’s thigh in his Oxford college’s junior common room, his sister Rachel has claimed.

Ms Johnson, who attended Oxford at the same time as her brother in the late 1980s, said she once encountered him and the British socialite together, confirming that the pair met at university for the first time.

Ms Maxwell is now on trial in the US for grooming women and young girls in association with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker billionaire.

Writing in The Spectator, Ms Johnson said she now finds it difficult not to feel sorry for her. “I intersected briefly with her at Oxford,” she wrote. “As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day in search of its subsidised breakfast granola-and-nescafé offering and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a highheeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh.”

Ms Johnson said she then went to a party at the family home of Ms Maxwell and Robert Maxwell, the media magnate, in north Oxford.

“She gave me a pitying glance but I did manage to snag an invite to her party in Headington Hill Hall – even though I wasn’t in the same college as her and Boris,” Ms Johnson said.

In an apparent barb directed at her brother, she added that “fairweather friends” of the alleged sex criminal “would not want to reveal they went to a Ghislaine Maxwell party”.

“You only know who your real chums are when you’re in the gutter,” she said.

A photograph that purportedly showed Mr Johnson and Ms Maxwell together, published online last year, was later proven to be false.

Mr Johnson has never spoken about his connection to the heiress. Downing Street last night declined to comment.

The pair both studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where Mr Johnson read classics and Ms Maxwell read modern history with languages.

Ms Maxwell rose to prominence as an associate of Mr Epstein, and is now on trial for sex crimes linked to his procurement and trafficking of underage girls. She denies the accusations.