Guest wrote:Grafenwalder wrote:Guest wrote:
OK. The rest of my post still stands. There's a lot of stuff out there on Maxwell and Epstein. I'll be watching this three parter tonight too.
Her father didn't leave his family penniless, it's a bit like when Prince Harry said he was cut off financially.
Everyone of the Maxwell siblings have houses and money. She wasn't living on skid row, she had an £80.000 a year trust fund. She abused girls because she could. She is where she belongs. I've flip flopped too as to whether she should get say 5 years or the practically rest of her life sentence she has got. But tbh I think she got what she deserves
BBC2 screened a three part documentary in March, "House of Maxwell", still on iplayer if you missed it; https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/ ... of-maxwell
It's mainly about the drowning of Maxwell at sea - was he pushed, was it suicide, or pure accidental? What hadn't been published before is the frantic phone calls between Mirror group execs knowing the finances were up shit creek, desperately trying to get Maxwell to answer the phone.
Ghislaine only comes into the doc half way through but she comes across as a spoiled child from the outset. Where the two sons did actually work, she doesn't seem to have done a tap in her entire life and had an allowance off Daddy. The family itself was unconventional and dysfunctional.
I've seen it, it's an eye opener on the warped Maxwell clan. There's a bit on there where Ghislaine is asked if she's happy, this is when she first moved to New York, she takes a while to answer but goes on to say that she wants to be remembered. She must certainly will be now
Yes the family were odd to say the least and it seems the father ruled quite brutally, though not to Ghislaine. She grew up expecting the mans role was there purely to provide. I thought the first part was rather slow but last nights second part was really on fire so i'm looking forward to tonights final episode. The Australian couple who managed Epsteins island were extremely careful with what they said during their interview, keen to maintain that 'upstairs downstairs' setting. Funny how that American lawyer referred to Prince Andrew as the Prince of England!