This story of the alleged partner-in-crime to Jeffrey Epstein complacently accepts her as a victim, doomed or destined to create hell with a man like him
A four-part Netflix documentary miniseries last year, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, told his abusive, paedophilic, sex-trafficking story. Now it is the turn of his partner in, it is charged, all things, Ghislaine Maxwell. She gets a three-hour Sky Documentaries series, Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, which itself feels like a shadow of Filthy Rich. The latter was not laden with original insight but did deliver a dense, compact history of the proliferating tales, evidence, rumours and reports that had swirled for decades before Epstein’s arrest for trafficking minors, and subsequent suicide while awaiting trial.
This documentary tells the story of Maxwell’s upbringing as the youngest child of media baron and notorious bully Robert Maxwell, her socialite years and her introduction to and subsequent long relationship with Epstein, which included, many claim, procuring underage girls for him who were then often passed round a network of like-minded men.
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