$1 MILLION BOUNTY TO KILL MAXWELL IN JAIL

GHISLAINE Maxwell is ‘sleeping with one eye open’ after it was revealed there is a $1million jail bounty on her head.

Maxwell, 60, is currently being held in the general population area of New York’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, where an inmate recently threatened to kill her.

A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘One woman was going around openly bragging that she was going to murder Ghislaine for $1million.

‘There are violent felons in there who would do it just for the notoriety of killing a high-profile prisoner, but others believe they will receive money if they kill her. They have been told there is a bounty on her head.

‘Three prisoners reported the threats and the woman who was making the threats has been moved away into a special unit.

‘Ghislaine is sleeping with one eye open.’

Maxwell was found guilty in December of five sex trafficking charges relating to her role in recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life while in prison in 2019.

The source added: ‘The Bureau of Prisons could not keep Epstein safe. Ghislaine is in a unit with 40 other women, many from violent gangs. She is constantly looking over her shoulder.’

Despite threats to her life, Maxwell – who was on suicide watch in solitary confinement for 22 months – has been offering inmates classes in spoken English, English literature and yoga.

‘Most of the women are Spanish-speaking and she speaks fluent Spanish,’ the source said. ‘She enjoys teaching and it keeps her busy and productive.

‘While there are elements who want to kill her, she has also made friends – people who look out for her.’

Maxwell will apply to serve out her prison term in the UK to be closer to her family in Oxfordshire, but she will not be eligible for a move until she has spent at least three years in a US jail.