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Ghislaine Maxwell has a husband, according to reports that emerged from her detention hearing Tuesday, but she won’t tell prosecutors his identity. Besides the disgraced and dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, here’s everyone his alleged recruiter has reportedly dated over the years:
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005.
KEY FACTS
Maxwell has made no “mention whatsoever about the financial circumstances or assets of her spouse, whose identity she declined to provide to Pretrial Services," said assistant U.S. Attorney Allison Moe during Tuesday’s hearing, revealing that the British socialite is married.
Most recently, Maxwell was linked to tech CEO Scott Borgerson in 2019, and reportedly stayed in his $3 million Massachusetts mansion after Epstein died by suicide, but he rejected those claims in a New York Post article
Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt and Maxwell dated around 2005, and broke up around 2011 or 2012, but not before Maxwell attended former first daughter Chelsea Clinton’s July 2010 wedding as Waitt’s guest.
Maxwell began dating Jeffrey Epstein around 1992, shortly after she arrived in the U.S., a move she made after her father and publishing giant Robert Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances.
Maxwell was reportedly in a “serious relationship” prior to 1992 with the late Italian aristocrat and millionaire Count Gianfranco Cicogna, a businessman and stunt pilot who died in a 2012 plane crash.
Surprising fact
Maxwell was first linked to Epstein in the press in an April 24, 1993 Daily Mail article about London’s “It” girls: “Ghislaine Maxwell, meanwhile, has—at 31—become utterly inseparable from her New York boyfriend, Jeff Epstein.”
Crucial quote
“Despite her association with Epstein, now in its fifth year, it is possible that Ghislaine could pull off a still bigger surprise on 5 July, by getting married—but not to him,” wrote the London Evening Standard in a April 24, 1997 article. “She has, after all, always approached men in a spirit of adventure.”
Key background
Maxwell, 58, faces six charges from 1994 to 1997 related to her alleged participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. She entered a not guilty plea during Tuesday’s hearing, and she’s denied all previous allegations against her. Maxwell was laying low for close to a year before her July 2 arrest. The FBI took her into custody from a secluded house in Bradford, New Hampshire. It took 20 armed agents to secure Maxwell’s arrest. Officers were forced to breach the front door of the home after they observed Maxwell, through a window, fleeing a room and shutting the door behind her. Once they entered, they found a cell phone covered in tinfoil, a tactic that officers said was meant to avoid detection by law enforcement. Maxwell was denied bail Tuesday after proposing a $5 million bond and that she would stay in a luxury hotel. She is scheduled to go on trial in July 2021.
Further reading
Long Before Ghislaine Maxwell Disappeared, Her Mogul Father Died Mysteriously (Forbes)
Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Request For House Arrest In Luxury Manhattan Hotel (Forbes)
Jeffrey Epstein’s Dark Façade Finally Cracks (Forbes)
20 Armed Agents And Officers Took Part In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Arrest (Forbes)
