Robert Maxwell, father of the now-infamous Ghislaine Maxwell, was born “Jan Ludvik Hoch” in the Carpathian Mountains. He escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at 17 to become a decorated military veteran before serving in British parliament, later building a media empire and amassing an estimated personal value of $1.9 billion at the peak of his career.
The Most Shocking Details From Ghislaine Maxwell’s Freaky Past
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Sarah Albers
Associate Editor
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