New York Post

SHE HAS A HIGH CELL COUNT

Slay fear keeps Ghis on the move in jail

- By LEE BROWN leebrown@nypost.com

One thing hasn’t changed since Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest — she’s still impossible to pin down.

The accused Jeffrey Epstein madam reportedly relocated 36 times during her year in hiding — and now she’s being moved from “cell to cell” in a federal Brooklyn lockup to avoid assassins, two reports said on Sunday.

The British media heiress was initially so scared of death threats over her alleged ties to Epstein’s child sextraffic­king ring that she moved “around three times a month,” staying in an estimated 36 properties since the pedophile financier’s arrest last July, an insider told The Sun.

It took her across the United States, with stops in Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado — home to a law firm that represents her — before she was arrested this month in New Hampshire, the insider said.

“Ghislaine has been constantly on the move throughout the last year. She would stay in properties for a few days or a week,” a source told the UK newspaper, saying threats to her life were a “serious problem.”

“Her location was on a need-toknow basis,” the insider said.

Those in the know included

“former special forces” soldiers she hired to protect her on rotation, with one living in a guesthouse near her Bradford, NH, hideaway when she was arrested, the paper said.

Local recycling boss Lois Kilnapp recalled a long-haired British man at the house — whom he nicknamed the “Duke of Sussex,” unaware the home’s owner, Maxwell, was good friends with Prince Andrew, uncle to the real Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry.

Now behind bars, Maxwell, 58, is still on the move because of potential death threats, another insider said.

“She is being moved from cell to cell and sometimes has a cellmate, sometimes not,” a source told the Mail on Sunday of Maxwell’s time in the Metropolit­an Detention Center. “They are terrified someone will try to kill her so they keep moving her around.”

Former MDC warden Cameron Lindsay previously told The Post that the risks for a high-profile inmate like Maxwell are real.

“To take someone out like that, that would be a badge of honor in the subculture of prisons,” he said.

Maxwell was initially forced to wear paper clothes and sleep on a bare mattress so she couldn’t hang herself like Epstein did in jail in August, but she is now wearing the jail-issued khaki shirt and pants, the insider said.

With her long hair and unkempt nails, she looks “far from the perfectly groomed socialite seen in photograph­s,” the Mail’s source said.

“She was in deep shock at first, but she is getting better each day. She is not a whiner or complainer,” the insider said.

Maxwell’s phone calls are limited to 15 minutes each, with a maximum of 300 minutes allowed per month, and she is banned from having any “nude or sexually suggestive” photos, according to federal Bureau of Prisons regulation­s.

Maxwell is facing four counts of sex-traffickin­g and two counts of perjury for allegedly acting as Epstein’s fixer. She is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday and faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.

 ??  ?? SUPER-‘MAX’: “Madam” Ghislaine Maxwell moved 36 times in the year after Jeffrey Epstein’s death, for fear of death threats — and now she’s being moved from jail cell to jail cell for the same reason.
SUPER-‘MAX’: “Madam” Ghislaine Maxwell moved 36 times in the year after Jeffrey Epstein’s death, for fear of death threats — and now she’s being moved from jail cell to jail cell for the same reason.

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