hyde clearly about ghislaine maxwell. one of the reasons there s so much interest in this trial, jim, is because her name is ghislaine maxwell and not sort of james smith. she is the daughter of the late robert maxwell who was an extraordinarily powerful and famous global media tycoon. ghislaine maxwell outwardly, what most she presented to most people as a very well educated woman. she had gone to oxford. she spoke numerous languages. she spent most of her time traveling around the world with people like bill clinton. she name dropped names like henry kissinger, the gaddafi family. she was a woman who had an extraordinary global rolodex. she was great friends with prince andrew. so the question is, are we going to learn in this trial, how did
that she s going to put up the same kind of defense that her brothers put up in the early 1990s when they were charged of helping their father, who is there dead, steal hundreds of millions of dollars from their employee s pension funds. and i think what you re going to see here, we can see from the pretrial motions that ghislaine maxwell is going to say she too was a victim of epstein and like her brothers did, she s going to poke holes at the credibility of the government witnesses. and bear in mind, these charges are from a very, very long time ago. so the government is going to use that. it s fascinating stuff, vicky ward. thanks so much for being with us. the three-part special streaming now on discovery plus. vicky ward, great to see you again. thanks for stopping by. he spent decades behind bars
ghislaine and jeffrey become romantically involved? in the 80s. long before her father died? oh, yeah. why did robert maxwell introduce ghislaine to jeffrey? i think that robert wanted to have this guy as a son-in-law. funny enough, he really that s what i think. and chasing ghislaine maxwell is streaming. there was a long stretch after epstein s death where nobody knew where she was. what is the public going to learn during this trial? well, i think we don t know. i think there is sort of there s an element of jekyll and
on monday opening statements begin in the trial of ghislaine maxwell, the alleged police of convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein. maxwell is accused of sex trafficking and grooming minors as part of a sex ring that catered to epstein and a powerful network of men worldwide. epstein died in prison while way waiting his own trial. maxwell has pleaded not guilty. in the new series, journalist vicky ward tries to shed light on maxwell s longtime partnership with epstein. when did jeffrey really meet ghislaine maxwell? that is a topic of peculiar confusion. there are many different stories. but we have four people who say they know that they met in the 1980s through her father robert maxwell who very much wanted them to become a couple. when as far as you know did