Vicki Ward

Her father had been a very powerful man.

Can you very briefly talk about who her father was?

you know, a sort of international spy.

He spied for the Russians, he spied for the Israelis, he spied for the British, and he was a massive figure of international influence.

He had a Rolodex of

of hugely powerful and important people all around the world from all walks of life.

I mean, he was also, by the way, a terrifying man, a horrible person, and a bully.

So Ghislaine Maxwell grew up in great privilege, and she knew...

many, many, many powerful people around the world because of her father.

But her father died in 1991 in very strange circumstances.

He had been on his yacht, which was named after Galen.

It was called Lady Galen.

And he was found in the water in

And it emerged very quickly after his death that he had in fact stolen a huge amount of money from the pension funds of his employees at the Mirror Group Newspapers, which was the holding company of his newspaper company in England.

And his two sons, two of Ghislaine's brothers, Kevin and Ian, were put on trial.

I mean, they ultimately were acquitted.

But it's at this point of Ghislaine's life that she, one, moves to New York.

And two, it's around this time, shortly before her father dies, that she meets Ghislaine.

Jeffrey Epstein.

And so when she meets Jeffrey Epstein, she's vulnerable financially for the first time in her life.