Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sexual predator and millionaire financial is in the center of the Netflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. The documentary is full of sickening details of Epstein’s sex trafficking and abuse, and a mysterious death: that of Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and close confidant. The megarich media mogul suspiciously died in 1991 after falling off his boat.
After he was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1923 as Ján Ludvík Hoch, the man who would later call himself Ian Robert Maxwell fled to France and then to Britain, where he fought in the Army before uniting the world of business. He made his first big media deal in 1951, when he bought a publishing company which he renamed Pergamon Press. In a little over a decade, became a millionaire.
In the next years, she struggled with another well-known media mogul Rupert Murdoch, for the purchase of media companies. He bought the British Printing s. a. and the Mirror Group of newspapers. His desire for domination in the media industry and the maximum return, led him to cut staff publications, and a battle with the unions, according to Forbes. He kept making purchases in other countries to increase their means of domination and, finally, came to the united states for the purchase of the New York Daily News.
However, Maxwell companies do not as profitable as that which led people to believe and days before his death, he was to meet with his son and the Bank of England over the non-payment of a £50 million loan with Goldman Sachs. Instead, he was on his yacht. Maxwell’s son Kevin said The Times: “We needed to prepare for the meeting, and I was a bit cut that he was going to leave it to the last minute.”
In Nov. 5, 1991, Maxwell was dead. Had fallen overboard from his boat, and if it was by accident or by force is still a mystery. The Guardian he wrote at the time Maxwell’s death was caused by a heart attack and drowningthough The Independent he wrote that his death was not conclusive. The Independent he also noted that “it is a self-proclaimed former Mossad officer named Ari Ben-Menashe had approached a number of news organizations in Britain and the united States with the allegation that Maxwell was a long-time agent of the Israeli intelligence services.” This accusation, though most of them have been fired since then.
Others have believed that Maxwell committed suicide because of their incredible debtalthough his son Ian does not agree. According to ForbesIan said: “I don’t think any murder, conspiracy stands. So for me, it is an unexplained accident, and I’m happy to live with that.”
Not only were Maxwell’s companies that do not, but after his death, investigators found that Maxwell had stolen more than $ 460 million dollars in pension funds, the sale and the use of the proceeds as if they were her own, according to Forbes. A couple of years after his death, Maxwell children were left to deal with charges of fraud and Maxwell enterprises in their majority were sold or went belly up.
