Ghislaine Maxwell

There is a lovely rambling rose called Ghislaine de Feligonde.
Goes back to 1916 so the Bouncing Czech probably named his daughter after it

Yes, the Lady Ghislaine. (?).

Not surprised she's in Israel, if that's true.

If my memory serves me correctly, wasn't the late Robert Maxwell's yacht called 'Ghislaine'?

Calendargirl
Yes!
Can she swim?

I thought it could be a silent G and H and it could be pronounced like Hélène

What a pity, it is a nice name but it's hardly going to shoot to the top of popular girls' names now, is it.

Money can help you escape justice, it seems.

She’s in Israel

She took part a charity car rally a few months ago.
No, I think she is just lying low.

So she's got nothing to hide then?

An aristocratic young lady who knew her said in an interview she has completely disappeared and she doesn't think we will ever see her again. The other possibility is that she may have been murdered? Unless she (or a body) are found we may never know the answer.

merlotgran

Yes. Maxwell's yacht was called The Lady Ghislaine. Some Lady.

They were a pretty unsavoury bunch. When things were going belly up for the family after Maxwell's suicide, the wife of the eldest son threw open her bedroom window early one morning and told the group of people outside, who she thought was the press, to 'F**k Off or I'll call the police.'

The reply was, 'Madam, we ARE the police!'

All the Maxwells were well dodgy. Maybe Ghislaine (pronounced Gillen, I think) has suffered the same fate as her dodgy father.

Isn’t she the daughter of Robert Maxwells who owned newspapers and disappeared from a yacht also called Ghislaine? We once saw the boat moored in the harbour in Gibraltar.

I thought that, Calendargirl. PA did say 'Gilane' and it is a pretty name. Wasn't her father's yacht (the one he fell/was pushed off) called The Lady Ghislaine?

Re the name pronunciation, in the interview Andrew seemed to pronounce it ‘Gilane’ using a hard G I thought.
Not that it matters I suppose.

The h would suggest a hard G so I googled. The pronunciation given was with a hard g but also with a zeddy kind of s, and 'laine' pronounced in a French way, more like len than lane.

So that's what I'm going with should I ever need to say the name out loud. It is a lovely name.

I m afraid I have always thought he was murdered and I think many ‘suicides’ may be murders I remember a mother telling me that her son had committed suicide but she was convinced it was murder as he had been concerned for his life before he was found and there was no note or anything she was convinced he’d been killed unlawfully and it made me consider this may be more common than we ever believe

I always said Jiz Laine too

Lots of others who will need “shutting up” in that case. There must be a lot of very influential people wondering if they will be summoned for questioning. Presumably he was supposed to be on suicide watch?

There must be a number of people involved in his murder. He presumably wouldn’t just let them do it so there would be bruising, drugs in his system etc which all had to be covered up by prison staff, police, morgue staff and pathology dept. Perhaps I’ve been watching too many CSIs!

Me too MerlotGran (about how to p;ronounce Ghislaine).

I think the man was murdered too, to keep him quiet and there's no other sure-fire way of shutting someone up.

Isn't Ghislaine a pretty name!

She wasn’t married to Epstein was she?

Andrew mentioned several times in the interview that he was friends with Ghislaine rather than her husband and as we now learn that he is withdrawing from public duties, maybe they will swan off somewhere together.

I doubt we'll see her again.

She'll have gone to ground

If JE was murdered (as his brother thinks) because he knew to much about the rich and famous, perhaps she’s frightened and in hiding?

Just an aside. JE’s brother has inherited all his millions of dollars. (billions?)

Considering JE started off as a gardener, wouldn’t it be nice if his brother donated the biggest portion of his inheritance to a children’s charity?

That’s what I’d do with his money anyway. I’d have no joy in spending it.

Perhaps she’s on a yacht somewhere.