Ghislaine Maxwell is the ninth and youngest child of Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...

, the late Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

n-born British media proprietor

Media proprietor

A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in any media enterprise. Those with significant control of a public company in the mass media may also be called "media moguls", "tycoons", "barons", or "bosses".The figure of the media proprietor...

 and former Member of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 (MP) whose body was found floating in the sea after he fell from the luxury yacht named after his daughter, the Lady Ghislaine, in 1991. She was educated at Marlborough College

Marlborough College

Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. Currently there are just over 800...

 and Balliol College, Oxford.

The French

France

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-born English

England

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-raised Maxwell is a qualified deep sea diver

Deep diving

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 and is an advocate for the ocean regarding climate change

Climate change

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, ocean acidification

Ocean acidification

Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH and increase in acidity of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere....

, and overfishing. She is a private helicopter pilot and an emergency medical technician

Emergency medical technician

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.

She founded a successful women's club named for the original Kit-Cat Club

Kit-Cat Club

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 and was a director of Oxford United FC

Oxford United F.C.

Oxford United Football Club is an English association football club based in Oxford, Oxfordshire. The club play in League Two, following promotion from the Conference National in May 2010. The club had been a non-League side since their relegation from the Football League in the 2005–06 season. The...

, once owned by her father.

Maxwell strongly denies allegations of an unsavoury nature, which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, regarding her association with Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Edward Epstein is an American financier. He served 13 months in jail of an 18-month sentence as a convicted sex offender in the state of Florida for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution...

, and announced her intention to sue for libel.