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Jackson, a senior journalist at Maxwell's Daily Minor, says he saw Ghislaine shredding documents aboard her father's yacht shortly after his death. The Maxwells denied this, but Jackson has never retracted his version. 'Whatever her impulses were after Maxwell died, one thing cannot be disputed: Ghislainc was heartbroken. One friend described her as 'catatonic' with grief. Rupert Fairfax said: 'She worshipped him. He was not just her father, he was her hero. Then, as well as having to cope with losing him, she had to cope with everything people were saying about him.' fmkft, Chislaine with Maxwell's death same when Ghislaine WAS getting Epstein at Sandring- ova the break-up of her four-year romance with ham. 14. with Ptince Count Gianfranco Cicogna, a member of the Ciga Andrew and 17-rar- hotels clan. The dashing and urbane Cicogna was old Virginia %thefts. credited by Ghislaine's friends with helping her shake Jeffrey Epstein's off the frumpy image she had at Oxford. 'He told her 'persona inaiacubi, in what to wear, where to get her hair cut — everything: 2001. Abets-, lipstein's said one. 51,0004quare-foot With her father dead and Cicogna gone. Ghislaine turned up in townhoow NCW link New York, the town she was to conquer. She rented a one-bedroom flat on the Upper East Side and began to reinvent herself. She was far by the soft-spoken from destitute. Hcr father had bought her a pretty mewshouse in South didn't spend the money. Her ticket was bought also had a grey-haired American who, unnoticed by the photographers , boarded Kensington which, in 1992, was valued at £500,000. She with £80,000 a year, at that time more the plane with her. This was Jeffrey Epstein. then a shadowy figure trust fund that provided her whose copious supply of money baffled everyone. What did he do? than the prime minister earned. And she was a knockout. with deadly Some thought he was a bounty hunter, recovering sums owed to charm and, perhaps most importantly, a bulging Eilofax. In London, vast she had suffered for her father's crimes. One estimate of the money the vers. rich. Others said he was a property developer. Or a financier. missing from his companies was £727 million. In New York she was a The question has never been satisfactorily answered. To this day, no celebrity, with an address book full of the names of rich and famous one really knows where Epstein gets his money. But there is an awful friends. Robert Maxwell was a determined soldier, ruthless and, by his lot ofit. He lives in what is believed to be Manhattan's largest private own admission, an unflinching killer. His daughter, in whose dark residence, a house once owned by the Macy family, spanning more beauty the old tyrant an still be discerned, was not about to succumb than 50,000 square feet. He also has a 7,500-acre ranch in New to guilt by association. She hit the phone. Soon, she was king seen at Mexico, a 70-acre island in the US Virgin Islands and a house in Palm all the smart parties. Men adored her. Shc talked dirty in a British Beach, Florida, which is said to be worth around E3 million. He has a boarding-school accent. peppering her Rabelaisian asides with an helicopter and an executive jet and he either owns or has access to a to fly ex-president Bill Clinton. actors occasional four-later word. She once brought dinner-party chatter to a Boeing 727. He used the Boeing standstill when she announced she was planning to remove all her hotly Kevin Spacey and Chris "hacker and others to Africa to investigate hair. Then, about a year after her father's death, she was photographed AIDS and poverty. When Ghislaine met Epstein, he was in his late 30s heading back to New York. There and had just been named Cosmopoliraris bachelor of the month. Given boarding Concorde at Heathrow. his money and screen-star looks, one can see why. But Epstein had was outrage. Maxwell's retirees had just been told their pension something else Ghislaine found irresistible. He is frighteningly clever. payments were king stopped. How could the evil crook's daughter In fact, she Ile started out as a maths teacher at an exclusive private school and spend £2,000 on a plane ticket while that was happening? Metania Knauss: and Tim Jeffenes Below from left. Ghisiano with. from left India Hicks. Sophie Dahl and Amy Sacco: Naomi Campbell. Donald Trump and EFTA01164603