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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Ghislaine Maxwell blames ‘overbearing, narcissistic, and demanding father’ for why she fell under Epstein’s spell

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Ghislaine Maxwell has blamed childhood abuse suffered at the hands of her father Robert Maxwell in a plea for clemency days ahead of her sentencing for child sex trafficking convictions.

Far from the glamourous lifestyle typically associated with her privileged upbringing, Maxwell’s attorney described a youth punctuated by negligence, beatings and ritual humiliation in front of her father’s powerful friends.

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