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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And normally when we say that for a man this rich, it's because... And he does cheat on her a bunch. But, like, in this case, it's because, you know, this just breaks their relationship. Yeah. And it breaks their ability to kind of care for their other kids. Like, he stops talking to his surviving children until...

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I hate to make anyone sympathetic to Gillen Maxwell, but in 1961, his youngest daughter, Gillen, at age three, tells her mother, Mommy, I exist, in an attempt to get attention. Because, like, after this accident, they're just ignoring their kids so much. Like, she has to, like, state to her parents, I am a person at age three. So reported this. This is was in his biography by Preston.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I hate to make anyone sympathetic to Gillen Maxwell, but in 1961, his youngest daughter, Gillen, at age three, tells her mother, Mommy, I exist, in an attempt to get attention. Because, like, after this accident, they're just ignoring their kids so much. Like, she has to, like, state to her parents, I am a person at age three. So reported this. This is was in his biography by Preston.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I hate to make anyone sympathetic to Gillen Maxwell, but in 1961, his youngest daughter, Gillen, at age three, tells her mother, Mommy, I exist, in an attempt to get attention. Because, like, after this accident, they're just ignoring their kids so much. Like, she has to, like, state to her parents, I am a person at age three. So reported this. This is was in his biography by Preston.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I believe this was reported by one of the Maxwell brothers. And again, this is this is well before the scandal.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I believe this was reported by one of the Maxwell brothers. And again, this is this is well before the scandal.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

And I believe this was reported by one of the Maxwell brothers. And again, this is this is well before the scandal.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So they probably wouldn't remember it. His brothers are old.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So they probably wouldn't remember it. His brothers are old.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So they probably wouldn't remember it. His brothers are old.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Yeah, that really fucked us all up, actually. I still don't feel bad for her. I'm not saying you should feel bad for her, but this should tell you how bad things are in his personal life.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Yeah, that really fucked us all up, actually. I still don't feel bad for her. I'm not saying you should feel bad for her, but this should tell you how bad things are in his personal life.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Yeah, that really fucked us all up, actually. I still don't feel bad for her. I'm not saying you should feel bad for her, but this should tell you how bad things are in his personal life.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Still don't feel bad for her. Yeah, yeah. He does start to smother her with affection from this point forward, right? Partly as a result of this. And she's kind of the only one in his immediate family that he acts with love towards after this. He will lash out at his sons and at his wife for the rest of his days. But he never really does it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Still don't feel bad for her. Yeah, yeah. He does start to smother her with affection from this point forward, right? Partly as a result of this. And she's kind of the only one in his immediate family that he acts with love towards after this. He will lash out at his sons and at his wife for the rest of his days. But he never really does it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Still don't feel bad for her. Yeah, yeah. He does start to smother her with affection from this point forward, right? Partly as a result of this. And she's kind of the only one in his immediate family that he acts with love towards after this. He will lash out at his sons and at his wife for the rest of his days. But he never really does it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Gillen, she becomes coddled and is obviously his favorite. So again, there we go. There we go. Sympathy ended. We're good now. Don't have to think about that sad three-year-old anymore. Now, if you recall, Maxwell had promised his future wife Betty that during the war he would one day be rich and become the Prime Minister.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Gillen, she becomes coddled and is obviously his favorite. So again, there we go. There we go. Sympathy ended. We're good now. Don't have to think about that sad three-year-old anymore. Now, if you recall, Maxwell had promised his future wife Betty that during the war he would one day be rich and become the Prime Minister.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Gillen, she becomes coddled and is obviously his favorite. So again, there we go. There we go. Sympathy ended. We're good now. Don't have to think about that sad three-year-old anymore. Now, if you recall, Maxwell had promised his future wife Betty that during the war he would one day be rich and become the Prime Minister.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

He had obviously already become rich and in the mid-1960s he starts to work towards political power. In 1964 he runs for Parliament in the constituency of Buckingham and he wins as a member of the Labour Party. And this is a weird aside, he identifies as a socialist his entire life.