Members of Ghislaine Maxwell s family may fly to New York for her arraignment
April 23 court date has been delayed by a week possibly to allow family to attend
Husband Scott Borgerson would travel 250 miles from his home outside Boston
Her twin sisters Isabel and Christine Maxwell could come as they are US citizens
Brothers Kevin and Ian would need special permission as Brits during pandemic
Maxwell is accused of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to provide him with girls
Family would like to see her out on bail which has been denied three times
She is currently on suicide watch at Brooklyn detention center awaiting trial in the summer on multiple sex trafficking charges
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The dinner dances hosted by Robert and Betty Maxwell at their Italianate mansion in Oxford, Headington Hill Hall, were reckoned, even by hardened partygoers, to be in a class of their own. Every year on Maxwell’s birthday, the great and good would descend in their droves to enjoy his hospitality. Labour party grandees would rub shoulders with captains of industry, leading scientists with newspapers editors.
But the party to celebrate Maxwell’s 65th birthday in June 1988 was confidently predicted to outdo them all in terms of both opulence and pomp. The US president, Ronald Reagan, sent a telegram of congratulations: “Nancy and I are delighted to join in the chorus of appreciation.” So did the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who extolled Maxwell’s “sense of direction and decision” – very similar, she noted, to her own. As far as the then Labour leader, Neil Kinnock was concerned, “If Bob Maxwell didn’t exist, no one c
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