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dannonyme ago

Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of the late Sir Robert Maxwell, who is said to have been a top agent of Mossad.

It was in 1991 that Maxwell plunged from the deck of his £15million luxury yacht — a 180ft vessel named Lady Ghislaine after his daughter — and soon afterwards it was discovered he had stolen £440 million from the Mirror Group pension fund.

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Epstein helped Ghislaine forget her past. Through him, she began to build a respectability in New York that would have been impossible in London, where Maxwell’s crimes were less easily forgotten.

Epstein was not, however, altogether straightforward. He may have been a firm fixture on the social scene but he had, to say the least, an opaque professional history — a little like Robert Maxwell. He is rumoured to have worked either for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, the CIA or even both.

On one occasion, he arrived in London at the home of a British arms dealer bringing a "gift" — a New York police-issue pumpaction shotgun. "God knows how he got it into the country," said a friend.

These are some CRAZY people...who live life WAY above the law. And I think/hope people are sick and tired of it.

isthisreality ago

Thanks for the info- on my massive "tree diagram" or whatever the hell you call what i scribbled into my notes- I have a Robert Maxwell/Mossad connection. Do you know off the top of your head what year he died?

dannonyme ago

Wikipedia, for what it's worth, says 5 November 1991

Maxwell was presumed to have fallen overboard from the vessel which was cruising off the Canary Islands,[39][40] and his naked body was subsequently recovered from the Atlantic Ocean. The official ruling at a Madrid inquest held in December 1991 was death by a heart attack combined with accidental drowning, although three pathologists had been unable to agree on the cause of his death at the inquest; he had been found to have been suffering from serious heart and lung conditions. Murder was ruled out by the judge and, in effect, so was suicide. He was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

However, upon further investigation, it doesn't seem quite so straight-forward. (surprise, surprise)

There is a lot of uncertainty as to exactly how Maxwell died::

12 Dec 1991 | The New York Times | Autopsy Indicates Maxwell Did Not Drown

...the British publishing tycoon apparently did not die of drowning but probably suffered a heart attack, even though the autopsy found no evidence of such an attack... [...] "We are saying that he probably died of ischemic heart disease," said Dr. Lopez, describing a condition in which not enough oxygen-rich blood reaches the heart. He said detailed studies performed in Madrid had found no proof of a heart attack. They had also produced no evidence of poison, alcohol or significant doses of medicines, he said. [...] "They can't prove he drowned; they can't prove he didn't drown. They can't prove a heart attack; they can't prove there wasn't a heart attack. So they are assuming. We would call this unascertained death."

And clearly, someone thinks that there is more to it than the heart attack theory:

22 Feb 1992 | The New York Times | Lloyd's Concludes Maxwell Was Suicide and Won't Pay

The ball is now in the family's court to prove that he died of accidental causes." [...] Dr. West's autopsy report found tearing and bleeding of the muscles in the back of Mr. Maxwell's left shoulder.

Dr. West's report examined several possible explanations for the injury to the 290-pound man, including an accidental fall overboard. But, his report went on, "One sees this pattern of injury on occasions in individuals who kill themselves as a result of falling from high buildings. Whilst some will jump or let themselves topple over a balcony or out of a window, others will actually ease themselves over the edge and hold on for a time with one or both hands before letting go."

Last year, Dr. West told Bernard Knight, president of the British Association in Forensic Medicine, that he believed that the muscles might have been torn when the rescue helicopter crew that found the body tried to winch it up from the sea.

"Whilst the deceased did suffer from cardiac disease and we cannot exclude it as being a factor in his death, we are of the opinion that the most likely cause of death is drowning," Dr. West's report said.

The Guardian refers to it being a possible suicide or murder:

The 68-year-old's body was found floating in the Atlantic; the verdict was death by accidental drowning though media speculation ranged from suicide to murder.

Ghislaine's Wikipedia says she thinks he was murdered:

Her father named his luxury yacht, the Lady Ghislaine in her honor, and it was near the yacht in the Canary Islands in 1991 that his body was found floating in the sea. Though a verdict of death by accidental drowning was recorded, Maxwell has since stated that she believes her father was murdered, commenting in 1997 that "He did not commit suicide. That was just not consistent with his character. I think he was murdered."

There a lot of info on resnse.com – British Publisher Robert Maxwell Was Mossad Spy New Claim On Tycoon's Mystery Death

LadyMinx ago

I would imagine you have to have a helluvalot of clout to be buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. That's pretty strange.