Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British socialite. She is known for her association with Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier, socialite and convicted sex offender.

On August 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, New York, United States. Maxwell was his former girlfriend and longtime business associate.

Maxwell is the youngest child of Czech-British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell and French Holocaust researcher Elisabeth Meynard Maxwell. Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, France, Ghislaine has two older sisters namely Christine Maxwell and Isabel Maxwell and two older brothers Kevin Maxwell and Ian Maxwell.

Ghislaine attended Marlborough College in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and Balliol College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. After her father’s death in November 1991, she moved from the U.K. to the U.S.
2. She is accused of assisting, facilitating and contributing to Epstein’s abuse of minor girls from 1994 to 1997.
3. She is accused of engaging in sex trafficking of a minor multiple times from 2001 to 2004.
4. In 2012, she founded The TerraMar Project, a self-described environmental nonprofit organization with a focus on ocean protection that announced closure on July 12, 2019.
5. In 2014, she gave a lecture for TerraMar at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas, USA and a TED talk at TEDx Charlottesville.
6. She has 15 different bank accounts and was once paid to manage Epstein’s properties. Between 2007 and 2011, he transferred more than $20 million from his own accounts to her. She later sent him back some of those funds.
7. After ending her relationship with Epstein, she became romantically involved with Gateway, Inc. co-founder Theodore W. “Ted” Waitt. As Waitt’s guest, she attended the wedding of investment banker Marc Mezvinsky and presidential daughter Chelsea Clinton at the Astor Courts estate in Rhinebeck, New York, USA on July 31, 2010.
8. In 2016, she married Scott G. Borgerson and lived in his residence in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA.
9. On March 12, 2020, she filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands seeking compensation from Epstein’s estate for her legal costs.
10. At around 8:30 a.m. on July 2, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested her in a 156-acre property in Bradford, New Hampshire, USA, which was bought for $1 million in December 2019 by an anonymous limited liability corporation. Represented by Lawrence Vogelman, she was charged with conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse children and lying about her alleged conduct as his procurer.
11. On March 29, 2021, federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against her. On December 29, 2021, she was found guilty and convicted on five sex trafficking-related counts.
12. On June 28, 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On July 25, 2022, she was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center to a low security federal prison for female inmates at Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
13. On December 25, 2023, she turned 62.