New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

From stilettos to shackles THE FALL OF GHISLAINE MAXWELL

As she prepares for the fight of her life, Ghislaine Maxwell is a shadow of her former self. The glamorous socialite – who rubbed shoulders with the world’s rich and powerful before her association with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein attracted the long arm of the law – is due to stand trial on November 29 on charges of procuring and abusing young girls for her former lover.

But instead of preparing for her legal showdown from the comfort of one of her designer mansions, the sunken-cheeked 59-year-old has been living in a 3m x 3.6m prison cell, wearing shapeless overalls and surviving on rice and beans.

It’s an unimaginable predicament for a woman who was born into one of the wealthiest families in Britain and counted royalty among her closest of friends.

Born on Christmas Day, 1961, Ghislaine Maxwell’s story is

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