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She was the youngest of their nine children.
It was a very strange upbringing in the sense that her father was extremely explosive and he demanded a great deal of his children.
Ghislaine's mother, Elizabeth, later in her autobiography wrote,
said that her husband, Robert, would fly into these rages and subject the children to humiliation and harsh treatment, including corporal punishment.
So she grew up privy to a life of obscene luxury.
However, it was a very difficult life growing up under her father.
Did she express resentment of him?
Did she dislike the pressure that was put on her?
In fact, she embraced that.
She was daddy's little girl in all that sense.
And not only were they close as she was growing up, but he also wanted to groom her for the family business.
When Robert Maxwell acquired Macmillan Publishing in 1988, he
along with the New York Daily News, the person that he brought with him from England was his daughter Ghislaine.
She was well known, had a tremendous Rolodex of contacts of the rich and famous.
And so Robert Maxwell wanted to tap into that.
And then, of course, the tragedy hit when her father and his sons, Kevin and Ian, had a battle at the Bank of England for defaulting on close to $75 million in loans.
He was on a yacht off the coast of the Canary Islands.
His yacht, which was named after Ghislaine, the Lady Ghislaine,