Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, passed away on November 5, 1991. His body was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean around the Canary Islands, Spain.
Robert, was a British entrepreneur, media proprietor, suspected spy, and fraudster.
He was a member of Parliament for Buckingham from October 1964 to May 1970.
Who is Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father?
Maxwell was raised in Headington Hill Hall, a vast Italianate mansion overlooking Oxford in the UK.
Rather than buying it himself, her plutocrat father had somehow persuaded its owner, Oxford City Council, to rent it to him for a minimal sum in return for renovating the property.
Throughout Ghislaine Maxwell’s childhood, lavish parties were thrown at Headington Hill Hall, with politicians, celebrities and media grandees in attendance. But after the VIPs had left the building it was a deeply emotionally place to grow up.
Robert Maxwell had risen from extreme poverty in a Czechoslovak Jewish settlement most of his family were murdered in the Holocaust to become an academic publishing magnate, and eventually owner of the Daily Mirror, one of the UK’s biggest-selling newspapers.
