Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. In 2022, she was convicted of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Born in France and raised in Oxford, England, she attended Balliol College, Oxford, in the 1980s and became a prominent member of London's social scene. She is a naturalised American citizen and retains both French and British citizenship. She worked for her father, the media proprietor Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991; she then moved to New York City, where she continued living as a socialite and developed a close relationship with Epstein. Alongside Epstein, Maxwell built up a vast social network consisting of prominent elites.