The former aide-de-camp of the disgraced, now deceased, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a fixture in Manhattan’s most fashionable salons. His naked body was found floating in the waters off the Canary Islands later that month. She founded the non-profit TerraMar Project for the conservation of oceans in 2012, but it shut down abruptly last month. Kevin became Britain’s biggest bankrupt, to the tune of more than £400m, in the wake of the pensions scandal. After joining the Czechoslovak army in exile, he was evacuated to Britain and joined the British army under the name Ivan du Maurier, apparently after a cigarette brand. The railings were wire. There he was, laid out horizontally in front of me. I don’t think he committed suicide.”. So, somewhere in the Spanish archives, there is a photograph of me with Maxwell’s corpse.”. In fact, when he died, six current or former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral. 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. 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. The answer to that was important – his life insurance, worth $35 million, would only pay out if he died of natural causes. Suicide? But that's not even the craziest or most mysterious thing about Robert Maxwell – not by a long shot. His then wife, Pandora, mother to their seven children, claimed a colourful cameo on the day of Kevin’s arrest. He does not have fond memories of his time with Maxwell, from 1989 to early 1991. But she insisted he was “not the degenerate monster” many said he was. His name was Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. 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. I believe Maxwell threw himself off.”. After the war, having changed his name once more, Ian Robert Maxwell set about recreating the family he had lost. His sons Kevin and Ian went on trial for their father's crimes of defrauding his companies. He claimed not to have had a pair of shoes until he was seven. Lennox was on the private jet that took Betty and her husband’s body to Israel. Over the next 16 years Robert and Elisabeth had nine children – Michael, Philip, Ann, twins Christine and Isabel, Karine, Ian, Kevin, and Ghislane. References to Czech have been changed as the country was called Czechoslovakia at the time. 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. Allegations by Epstein’s accusers that she helped procure girls for the financier have been denied repeatedly. Having interviewed the captain and crew of the Lady Ghislaine in depth, he has concluded that no one could have got aboard on that fateful night. He had well known links to MI6 – The British Secret Intelligence Serves, the KGB, and the Israeli intelligence group Mossad. He fought in Normandy, met his wife – a student at the Sorbonne – and won the Military Cross for heroism on the Dutch-German border; the decoration was pinned to his chest by Field Marshal Montgomery. After the war, he became the British and U.S. distributor of Springer Verlag, a scientific book publisher. Back in the U.K., Scotland Yard was investigating a claim by the Swiss Bank Corp that Maxwell borrowed $104 million, putting up as collateral, shares in a company that he had already sold. And he very much knew that was coming,” says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of one of Maxwell’s newspapers, the Daily Mirror. The Maxwell family owned 51% of the shares. 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. Over the years, Maxwell has used England's flexible libel laws to silence reports that he was way over his head in debt or that much of his reported $1.9 billion net worth was a high stakes shell game. Somehow, he had transferred those shares without a trace. If you look through the Maxwell files, he would take her to events: Elton John’s birthday, football matches. On take-off, her husband was still missing. Did you see any puncture marks behind his ears?’ But he was unmarked, apart from that graze on his shoulder,” says Lennox. To understand Maxwell, says Julia Langdon, the political editor of the Mirror under him for five years, “you have to think of him as a multipersonality. This company was public. By 1944, most of his family had died at Auschwitz after Czechoslovakia, which had been reclaimed by Hungary, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Maxwell, born Jan Hoch into an impoverished Czechoslovak peasant family, rose in his 68 years to become an outsize British tycoon with a net worth, according to Forbes magazine, of … Robert Maxwell was a British media mogul who owned newspapers like The Daily Mirror.Robert Maxwell also owned several other publications before his death, including the New York Daily News, which he purchased in 1991.. The crew struggled to load the oversized casket into the small plane, eventually having to prop it up at a 45-degree angle, in clear view of the passengers, he recalls.
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