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Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133
Her father is a rich man from England. That is where her money is from.
Her wiki page says she was active in the high society of England. Maybe she is introverted, and did not make many close friends, but had lots of money to throw around and did make acquaintances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell |
Ghislaine's father is Ján LudvÃk Hyman Binyamin Hoch, whose was born into a poor Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly, in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine). Her fathers family was so poor they couldn't afford shoes.
Most of the family died in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by Nazi Germany, but Ján had years earlier escaped to France. In May 1940, he joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile in Marseille and later joined the British Army under the name "Ivan du Maurier", where his heroic acts including the storming of a German machine-gun nest" during the war won him the Military Cross, presented by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
After WW2 Ján LudvÃk Hyman Binyamin Hoch changed his name again from Ivan du Maurier to Robert Maxwell, after the coffee brand Maxwell House.
In 1945, Maxwell married Elisabeth "Betty" Meynard, a French Protestant, and the couple had nine children over the next 16 years.
As for Ghislaine sge was born on 25 December (Christmas) 1961 in Maisons-Laffitte, France, and hold French citizenship by birth.
Robert Maxwell made his money from Pergamon Press, which was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals. Pergaamon Press also had offices in the US, however a bitter takeover battle saw Maxwell kicked out by Pergamon, and there were allegations of fraud and mismanagement, however Maxwell as cleared in the courts and US Congress, and Maxwell went in reacquire Pergamon in 1974 after borrowing funds, and later bought other printing companies, thereby expanding his printing empire.
Maxwell then turned his attentions to trying to build a media empire, and although he failed to buy the News of the World, he later bought Mirror Group Newspapers.
So that the family very briefly in a nutshell, as for being English, they are social climbers but were and are anything but traditional English aristocracy.
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