Married Maxwell refuses to name her secret spouse
GHISLAINE Maxwell has secretly married but refuses to reveal the identity of her spouse, it has emerged.
The British socialite’s marriage was disclosed as paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged “pimp” pleaded not guilty to charges related to his sex trafficking ring.
Prosecutor Alison Moe made the revelation during her successful attempt to block Maxwell’s bid for bail before her trial.
She told New York district judge Alison Nathan: “In addition to failing to describe in any way the absence of proposed cosigners of a bond, the defendant also makes no mention whatsoever about the financial circumstances or assets of her spouse, whose identity she declined to provide to pre-trial services.
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“There’s no information about who will be co-signing this bond or their assets, and no details whatsoever.”
She did not say who she believed Maxwell’s husband or wife was or give any indication as to how long they had been married.
Other than her relationship with Epstein, little is known about Maxwell’s love life.
During her appearance on Tuesday, it was revealed she had given the estate agent the impression she was married when she bought her New Hampshire home.
The house was paid for in $1million cash in December, a month after a “Janet and Scott Marshall” had viewed the home named “Tucked Away”. They had told the estate agent that Mr Marshall was ex-British military who was writing a book, while Mrs Marshall was a journalist who just wanted some privacy.
It was only when the FBI showed the seller a picture of Maxwell that she identified her as “Mrs Marshall”.
The house was owned by a newly formed company called Granite Realty LLC.
Sources close to the Southern District of New York prosecutors’ office, which is leading the case, said they disclosed the marriage to show to the judge that Maxwell was not being transparent. Despite offering a £4million bond co-signed by two of her sisters, backed with a £3million property in the UK, Judge Nathan ruled Maxwell should be held in jail until her trial starts. A date has been set for July 12 next year.
The decision came despite Maxwell offering to surrender her three passports, be subjected to GPS monitoring and be confined to a “luxury hotel”.
The justice cited her “substantial international” ties and “extraordinary financial resources”, said by prosecutors to be more than £16million.
Maxwell, who is the daughter of corrupt media tycoon Robert Maxwell, is accused of grooming and abusing girls as young as 14 for Epstein between 1994 and 1997, a period when she was his girlfriend.
She faces up to 35 years in prison if found guilty. She is being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where she has been given anti-suicide paper clothes.