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<\/source><\/p>\nPresident Donald Trump has just been impeached for the second time after he incited a mob to storm the Capitol building. He is the only US President to have been impeached twice, and will soon face a trial in the Senate. His former associate Ghislaine Maxwell will be in the dock this summer.<\/p>\n
She was arrested last year on charges related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.<\/p>\n
He killed himself in jail before he could face his trial.<\/p>\n
However, the arrest of his ex-girlfriend, who hid away from the public eye in the immediate aftermath of Epstein’s death, has revived the case once more.<\/p>\n
She has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
Interest in the case is high, partly because of Ms Maxwell’s past — she is the youngest daughter of late media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, and was once a socialite who had connections within the highest levels of society.<\/p>\n
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Her father set her up with a “corporate gift business” at one point, and almost put her in contact with the then business magnate Mr Trump in the Eighties.<\/p>\n
In the newly released true crime podcast, ‘Power: The Maxwells’, investigative journalist Tara Palmeri looked into how Mr Trump’s name ended up causing a huge row between Mr Maxwell and his favourite daughter.<\/p>\n
Mr Maxwell’s former secretary Carol Bragoli told her: “Maxwell would expect everyone he knew in business to buy them [the corporate gifts] off her, so she didn’t have to go out and sell it.<\/p>\n
“She just had to say whose daughter she was and they sold themselves, I suspect.”<\/p>\n
Ms Palmeri noted that it was clear to many this was an “unprofitable vanity project” to keep Ghislaine occupied while her elder brothers ran the business.<\/p>\n
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Ms Maxwell had a particularly close yet bizarre relationship with her father.<\/p>\n
Ms Bragoli remembered overhearing a phone conversation between the two where they both “meowed” at one another for close to a minute.<\/p>\n
Mr Maxwell even named his luxury yacht after her, calling it the ‘Lady Ghislaine’.<\/p>\n
He was particularly “indulgent” towards his youngest, but was not afraid to turn on her either.<\/p>\n
The podcast explains how, on one occasion, Mr Maxwell snapped.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ms Maxwell had phoned her father to set up a meeting with Mr Trump, in the hope of selling him some corporate gifts as they were friends.<\/p>\n
Ms Palmeri claimed the media tycoon rudely replied: “Have you got your bum in your head?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS “Why the f*** would Donald Trump want to waste his time seeing you with your crappy gifts when he has a multi-million dollar business to run?”<\/p>\n This turbulent relationship between Mr Maxwell and his children has been the subject of much speculation.<\/p>\n Roy Greenslade, former editor of Mr Maxwell’s newspaper the Daily Mirror, recalled some telling insight into their family dynamics, when he saw the children looking afraid when with their father.<\/p>\n He said this “showed how monstrous he could be” with his own family.<\/p>\n Mr Greenslade also claimed that mealtimes within the Maxwell family were incredibly difficult.<\/p>\n Mr Maxwell would quiz his children on what they learned at school, and once pushed Ms Maxwell to tears when she could not define “theocracy”.<\/p>\n Mr Greenslade also said: “I think that really made their lives a complete misery. Completely unlike, I think, many other children.<\/p>\n “It was an abuse of a kind, psychological abuse.”<\/p>\n Mr Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances in 1991, when his body was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean after he had been out on the ‘Lady Ghislaine’.<\/p>\n He left behind a tower of debts and his companies had to apply for bankruptcy protection in 1992.<\/p>\n But Ms Maxwell maintained a friendship with Mr Trump as they frequented the same social circle for years.<\/p>\n In 2000, she was pictured at his Florida residence in Mar-a-Lago along with Melania Trump and the future President himself, as well as Epstein.<\/p>\n Mr Trump was even asked about Ms Maxwell’s arrest in July, and replied: “I haven’t really been following it too much.<\/p>\n “I just wish her well, frankly.”<\/p>\n Then in August, Mr Trump confirmed: “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they [Maxwell and Epstein] lived in Palm Beach.”<\/p>\n Power: The Maxwells<\/i> is available on all podcast providers. <\/i><\/p>\n
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