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Rise and fall of Daddy's girl

The jaw-dropping trajectory of Ghislaine Maxwell's fall from grace has been chronicled so often that surely there's nothing left to say. She plummeted from the upper echelons of British society to a US Federal Prison in Tallahassee where she is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.

We all know how this darling daddy's girl, the favourite offspring of megalomaniac ogre and corrupt tycoon Robert Maxwell, who siphoned £500 million from his companies’ pension funds in the late eighties, fell under the wicked spell of one monster to another.

We're intimately acquainted with the fact that, after her father's mysterious death in 1991, when he plunged off the back of his yacht the off the Canary Islands, Ghislaine became the accomplice in

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