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Exhibit F
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The Honorable Alison J. Nathan
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
United States Courthouse
40 Foley Square
New York, NY 10007 November 23" 2020
Your Honor:
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My name is Pandora Maxwell. I am resident in Oxford UK, where I run a holiday
rental business and also look after family members, both very young and elderly. I am
the ex-wife of Kevin Maxwell, Ghislaine's brother, to whom I was married for 21 years
and the mother of our seven children. I have known Ghislaine since 1979 when she was
18 years old, living at her family home in Oxford. At that time, when we first met, my
first impression was the same as it remains now, that she is extraordinarily vivacious,
friendly and intelligent. She has her father's charisma and has a genuine warmth. She
was then diligently working for her final years of school exams to achieve her place at
Oxford University, which she succeeded in.
Throughout the last couple of years, she has been in touch as she was based in
Massachusetts and Manhattan. In 2018, she wanted to share a family Christmas as her
birthday falls on Christmas Day, so I and six of my children (plus their own children) all
joined a large family event hosted by Ghislaine and her husband in which she was very
hospitable and obviously very much at home and in love. We all met her new family,
and extended family, and many Maxwell family members also made the trip. Prior to
this, at various points in the lives of my children, as they have expressed a desire to see
New York, Ghislaine has welcomed them, hosted them, and entertained them with
friends and their children. At no time did I have any hesitation about them making
those trips. The older children would have been in their early teens at that time.
I recall when we all descended on her home in Manhattan in 2011. She was extremely
busy with her philanthropic work that was very important to her regarding the Oceans
and marine conservation, and her work took her to presentations at the UN and TED
talks, I believe.
It has been clear for many years that Ghislaine regards the US as her home, retaining her
London house as a place to stay on return visits to see family and visit her mother (who
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died in 2013). In recent years she has not been in the UK
at all, I believe, for any length
of time. She is a person who my children always regarded
as sparkling and engaging,
and dedicated to her oceans conservation work and other
business projects.
I would describe her as a woman of principle; very discipl
work ethic, instilled by both her parents. She is the ined with an extraordinary
youngest of seven surviving siblings,
all of whom are close and all of whom have the same
work ethic and integrity.
I have at no point given any credence to the ridiculous and
defamatory statements in the
press about her being in hiding from law enforcement; this
has never been the case. She
would just like an opportunity to prepare her defence in an
appropriate manner.
I am totally confident that Ghislaine will appear in court as require
d, and I am prepared
to sign a bond in the amount of $33 million in support of her bail applica
tion. This
amount represents the value of effectively all of my assets, including my home
and the
other houses that support my holiday rental accommodation business in
Oxford. If I lost
these assets because Ghislaine violated the conditions of her release, I would be
financially ruined. I make this pledge without reservation because I
know that Ghislaine
will remain in the United States to face the charges against her, which she
vehemently
denies.
Yours sincerely
Pandora Maxwell
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