Oxford-educated Ghislaine Maxwell will have a literacy test to see if she has the skills to work in a US prison call centre.
If the disgraced British socialite passes she will earn 99p an hour selling cut-price internet, TV and phone bundles for a telecommunications giant.
Maxwell, 61, is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
The company outsources some of its call centre work to Florida’s FCI Tallahassee female prison, where she is held.
She will be paid three times more than her current role in the jail law library but she will need a lot of hours to pay off the £644,000 fine imposed by her trial judge.
A prison insider said: “Many of the girls work in the call centre. Customers would never know they are talking to a drug dealer, armed robber, killer or in Ghislaine’s case, a sex trafficker.
“The girls have been joking if she does move jobs, callers will think they’ve called
Buckingham Palace with her posh accent.
“Being on the phones allows the girls contact with the outside world. Some find it a lifeline.”
Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 of sex-trafficking minors, conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and conspiracy to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity for her former boyfriend, financier Jeffrey Epstein.
She was also found guilty of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to sex-traffic minors.
She was sentenced last June and moved to Tallahassee.
Her new prospective role is a far cry from the career she once knew.
Her dad, crooked tycoon Robert Maxwell, made her a director at Oxford United, the football club he owned. He also set her up with a company supplying corporate gifts.
She founded a private members’ club for women and was a director at Jemma Kidd’s make-up company, had her own consulting business and a charity called Terramar.
During her trial, it emerged that from 1994 to 2007, Maxwell received almost £26million from Epstein, who later committed suicide in prison.
It was also found she had transferred big sums to husband Scott Borgerson, 44, from whom she is now estranged.
For more than 80 years, government-run US jails have put inmates to work under its “Federal Prison Industries” company, commonly known as UNICOR.
Its website says: “UNICOR works with private sector firms that send work offshore. We call it ‘smart-sourcing’. Outsourcing offshore can be a hassle.”
UNICOR operates out of 80 US “factories with fences”, offering a diverse range of products and services.
- An interview with Maxwell will be broadcast on Monday night when she will be heard speaking from behind bars on Jeremy Kyle’s Talk TV show.
