Fast forward to the early 1980s and Maxwell had reinvented himself, this time as the publisher of the London tabloid The Daily Mirror as well as other publications in England and Scotland. His name was Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. When she saw her mother, her knees just buckled,” Lennox recalls.

For Oxford-educated Ghislaine, the youngest of his nine children, Maxwell’s money had provided status and a ticket to the elite. His hair still slicked back, his complexion; he looked as if he was still alive.” Apart from a graze to his left shoulder, Maxwell’s body was unmarked, Lennox says. Ian, 62, and Kevin, 60, have reportedly set up an organisation similar to the Prince’s Trust in Greece. ‘He was an enormous figure in British national life’ ... Maxwell, then the chairman of Oxford United, and Malcolm Shotton celebrate the club winning the 1986 Milk Cup.

Maxwell's son Kevin, who ran the Daily News, said $532 million had been loaned by the publicly owned American group Maxwell Communication Corp. to some of Maxwell's privately held companies. “So I am a suicide theorist. The Spanish were unsure it was Maxwell.

A jury unanimously acquitted both men. In her autobiography, Betty, who died aged 92 in 2013, described Maxwell as bullying, unfaithful and frequently absent.

He claimed not to have had a pair of shoes until he was seven. He does not have fond memories of his time with Maxwell, from 1989 to early 1991. Did you see any puncture marks behind his ears?’ But he was unmarked, apart from that graze on his shoulder,” says Lennox. She soon became part of Epstein’s inner circle and remained there for more than a decade. Maxwell, one of seven children of Jewish parents, was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the Czechoslovakian mountain village of Slatinské Doly, now part of Ukraine and known as Solotvyno. In fact, when he died, six current or former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral. My first reaction when he died was that I could not think of anyone less likely to commit suicide. He was flying high. What you have here is a kind of sociopathic, possibly borderline psychopathic, character.”, He adds: “Here was a man, totally found out, not able to escape and not able to bluster. In an interview in 1995, Elisabeth mentioned that they were recreating the family he lost in the Holocaust. He met accusations he was an Israeli spy with furious denials and legal threats. After he pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution and served 13 months, it appears she moved on, although she remained on New York’s social circuit. She founded the non-profit TerraMar Project for the conservation of oceans in 2012, but it shut down abruptly last month. Two of his children – Karine and Michael died young. In New York, where Maxwell had recently purchased the New York Daily News, his staff was trying to find shares in Berlitz International that were held by Macmillan Inc, the publishing company Maxwell owned. In 1939, Robert was one of seven children of his parents. Apart from Mirror Group Newspapers and the New York Daily News, his many businesses included Oxford United and Derby County football clubs. She is said to have facilitated Epstein’s social contacts, flying with him on his private jet and organising dinners for influential people at his homes. Shortly afterwards, Ghislaine flew in. She was inconsolable; she could hardly speak.

• This article was amended on 23 August 2019. Life of an heiress. “He was very bombastic, very prone to flattery, very vain. It is almost 30 years since her father, the press baron Robert Maxwell, fell to his death from his £15m yacht, Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands, aged 68. His business empire was close to ruin and he'd stolen more than $900 million from his employee's pension funds to stave off bankruptcy. He was said to ritually humiliate his children by turn, week in, week out. He escaped Nazi occupation by fleeing to France as a teenager, but lost his parents, four siblings and most of his extended family in the Holocaust. The railings were wire. Was he murdered?

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“He was a man who could not face the ignominy of jail, of being shown to be a liar and a thief. Bombastic, bullying and with a deep, booming voice, Maxwell was an enormous figure in British national life. But Sunday family lunches were rarely happy affairs. The two were reportedly briefly an item; they remained close. Maxwell's death was ruled to be a heart attack and accidental drowning, but it seems all too convenient given the fact that investigators on two continents were looking into his financial dealings in the months before he died. “She was really devastated.

I held up the affidavit and they took a photograph of me, with Robert underneath.

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Way up there with Bernie Madoff,” says Greenslade, the author of Maxwell: The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell and His Empire. They were thought to have been in on it. “People were phoning me up with all the conspiracy theories. His death on 5 November 1991 shocked the country.