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

There's like a really funny moment from this where like one of his friends goes like during this party, kind of like finds his way walking around like the back of the house outside of like the areas they're supposed to be partying in. And notices that like, well, all the furniture outside of like the big public areas kind of looks like shit. And all of the books on his bookshelf are fake.

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

There's like a really funny moment from this where like one of his friends goes like during this party, kind of like finds his way walking around like the back of the house outside of like the areas they're supposed to be partying in. And notices that like, well, all the furniture outside of like the big public areas kind of looks like shit. And all of the books on his bookshelf are fake.

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

There's like a really funny moment from this where like one of his friends goes like during this party, kind of like finds his way walking around like the back of the house outside of like the areas they're supposed to be partying in. And notices that like, well, all the furniture outside of like the big public areas kind of looks like shit. And all of the books on his bookshelf are fake.

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

Like they're made out of cardboard. They're like fake books. Now Preston says only the books concealing his stereo system were fake. I don't know. But this is kind of evidence that as rich as he was on paper and this is the thing he's worth 4.4 billion on paper or something like that. He's not actually doing as well as it seems, right?

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

Like they're made out of cardboard. They're like fake books. Now Preston says only the books concealing his stereo system were fake. I don't know. But this is kind of evidence that as rich as he was on paper and this is the thing he's worth 4.4 billion on paper or something like that. He's not actually doing as well as it seems, right?

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

Like they're made out of cardboard. They're like fake books. Now Preston says only the books concealing his stereo system were fake. I don't know. But this is kind of evidence that as rich as he was on paper and this is the thing he's worth 4.4 billion on paper or something like that. He's not actually doing as well as it seems, right?

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

And 1998 is nearer to the end of his time in the limelight than the beginning. That year, the same year as this fucking party, he spends 2.6 billion dollars buying US publisher Macmillan. And that's a billion dollars more than its own shareholders valued it at? Like, he kind of does a musk, where he's like, I'll offer you 2.6 billion.

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

And 1998 is nearer to the end of his time in the limelight than the beginning. That year, the same year as this fucking party, he spends 2.6 billion dollars buying US publisher Macmillan. And that's a billion dollars more than its own shareholders valued it at? Like, he kind of does a musk, where he's like, I'll offer you 2.6 billion.

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

And 1998 is nearer to the end of his time in the limelight than the beginning. That year, the same year as this fucking party, he spends 2.6 billion dollars buying US publisher Macmillan. And that's a billion dollars more than its own shareholders valued it at? Like, he kind of does a musk, where he's like, I'll offer you 2.6 billion.

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

And they're like, we were not going to ask for that much, but oh, fucking K, right? Yeah. He had to borrow from 44 banks to afford it. And he does this, not because, again, he's... Wow. Wow.

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

And they're like, we were not going to ask for that much, but oh, fucking K, right? Yeah. He had to borrow from 44 banks to afford it. And he does this, not because, again, he's... Wow. Wow.

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

And they're like, we were not going to ask for that much, but oh, fucking K, right? Yeah. He had to borrow from 44 banks to afford it. And he does this, not because, again, he's... Wow. Wow.

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

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, back to being evil. In March of 1991, he started making a series of ill-advised acquisitions in New York media. He purchased the New York Daily News, which was like the oldest daily paper in New York at the time, but also in disastrous financial condition. There's like a horrible strike going on. It is not a good buy. It's such a bad buy. Wow.

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

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, back to being evil. In March of 1991, he started making a series of ill-advised acquisitions in New York media. He purchased the New York Daily News, which was like the oldest daily paper in New York at the time, but also in disastrous financial condition. There's like a horrible strike going on. It is not a good buy. It's such a bad buy. Wow.

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

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, back to being evil. In March of 1991, he started making a series of ill-advised acquisitions in New York media. He purchased the New York Daily News, which was like the oldest daily paper in New York at the time, but also in disastrous financial condition. There's like a horrible strike going on. It is not a good buy. It's such a bad buy. Wow.

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

Yes. Yes, please take this shit and all of its debts off of our fucking hands. Wow. And again, his assumption is, because in the past, every time he's got a paper, he's been able to turn it around, right? And make it super. He's got this skill. So he sails his yacht, the Lady Gillen, named after his daughter, into the city harbor to take control of the paper.

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

Yes. Yes, please take this shit and all of its debts off of our fucking hands. Wow. And again, his assumption is, because in the past, every time he's got a paper, he's been able to turn it around, right? And make it super. He's got this skill. So he sails his yacht, the Lady Gillen, named after his daughter, into the city harbor to take control of the paper.

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

Yes. Yes, please take this shit and all of its debts off of our fucking hands. Wow. And again, his assumption is, because in the past, every time he's got a paper, he's been able to turn it around, right? And make it super. He's got this skill. So he sails his yacht, the Lady Gillen, named after his daughter, into the city harbor to take control of the paper.

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

He gives this like grand speech on the street. And like there's all these articles in New York papers being like the savior of New York. Und es gibt auch ein paar Leute, die für ihn gearbeitet haben, in verschiedenen Papieren in der UK, die sagten, er ist eigentlich ein großer Arschloch. Niemand kann für ihn arbeiten. Das wird nicht gut für euch enden. Und es ist sicher nicht.

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

He gives this like grand speech on the street. And like there's all these articles in New York papers being like the savior of New York. Und es gibt auch ein paar Leute, die für ihn gearbeitet haben, in verschiedenen Papieren in der UK, die sagten, er ist eigentlich ein großer Arschloch. Niemand kann für ihn arbeiten. Das wird nicht gut für euch enden. Und es ist sicher nicht.