What is Ghislaine Maxwell’s net worth?

Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite, has a net worth of $20 million. She was arrested in 2020 for allegedly being an accomplice of serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Despite claiming to only be worth $3.5 million, an FBI forensic accountant found evidence that her net worth was closer to $20 million when including assets controlled by her secret husband, Scott Borgenson.

Maxwell has been involved in several civil cases, including lawsuits with Virginia Roberts, Sarah Ransome, and Maria Farmer. On December 29, 2021, she was found guilty by a Federal jury in New York on five of the six criminal counts with which she had been charged.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Background

Ghislaine Maxwell was born in Maisons-Laffitte, France on December 25, 1961. She is the youngest of nine children born to British publishing tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell and French socialite Elisabeth Maxwell. Maxwell graduated from Oxford University and was a prominent member of the London social scene during the 1980s. She served as a director of Oxford United Football Club and founded Kit-Cat Club. Maxwell’s siblings include Christine Maxwell, Isabel Maxwell, Kevin Maxwell, and Ian Maxwell.

Robert Maxwell’s Business Empire Was Actually $4 Billion in Debt

At his peak, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, was worth $1.9 billion. However, he died in 1991 at the age of 68 after falling off his massive yacht, which was named “Ghislaine.” After his death, it was revealed that Maxwell’s business empire was actually $4 billion in debt, and he had plundered his employee pension funds to the tune of several hundred million pounds.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Controversial Associations

After her father’s death, Ghislaine Maxwell moved to the US in 1991 and became a close associate of financier Jeffrey Epstein. She allegedly procured young women, some of whom were underage, to give him massages and perform sex acts for money. Through her English society connections, she reportedly introduced Epstein to Prince Andrew and was a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010. After her relationship with Epstein ended, she took up with the founder of Gateway Computers, Ted Waitt.

In 2012, Maxwell founded The TerraMar Project, a philanthropy aimed at saving the oceans. However, tax filings show that the foundation gave no grants between 2013 and 2017. The foundation was shuttered in 2019 amid new sex trafficking charges brought against Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Wealth and Properties

Over eight years of living with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell received gifts totaling $30.7 million. In 2020, she claimed to be worth $4 million, while a forensic accountant estimated her net worth to be over $20 million in 2015. Her wealth allegedly disappeared, forcing her to sell her London home for $2.4 million in August 2021.

The FBI found over 15 bank accounts tied to Ms. Maxwell in an indictment released after her 2020 arrest, with a total balance of at least $20 million.

Ghislaine lived in a luxurious New York City town home bought by an Epstein-controlled corporation for $4.95 million in 2000. She was the beneficiary of the sale when it was sold for $15 million in April 2016. That same year, she and Scott Borgenson, whom she secretly married, bought a home in Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts, for $2.7 million.

Ghislaine was arrested at a 156-acre estate in Bradford, New Hampshire, which an LLC purchased for $1.1 million in December 2019. The main house on the property has 4,300 square feet and 4 bedrooms.

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