Ghislaine Maxwell's life in prison - new obsession, job and Prince Andrew claim
Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida jail - a far cry from the lavish life she used to lead.
The 61-year-old convicted sex offender was found guilty last year of luring young women and girls to massage rooms where disgraced businessman Jeffrey Epstein molested them between 1994 and 2004.
The Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida is only a few hours from the Palm Beach mansion of paedophile Epstein.
The billionaire Wall Street financier and convicted sex offender was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell is in FCI Tallahassee as her offences are too severe for her to be placed in an open prison – the usual destination for white-collar criminals
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The prison is world away from New York's Fifth Avenue sidewalks, where Maxwell once shopped, partied and dined with her aristocratic friends.
Typical day
Maxwell (pictured) is serving a 20 year sentence in a USA jail (PA)The disgraced British socialite typically wakes up before sunlight.
Before heading to her job in the prison's law library where she works Monday to Thursday, she is served her breakfast between 5.30 and 6.30am.
She and inmates from her "B South unit" dormitory are called to the prison canteen to pick up their food served on a throwaway styrofoam tray, which typically consists of a muffin, cereal, oatmeal, fruit, and milk.
By 7.30am, she has to have her bed made and be "inspection ready" dressed in her work uniform - a button-up shirt and matching khaki trousers.
Outside such hours and on the weekend, Maxwell is allowed to wear her own clothes, known as "grades".
Maxwell has her lunch served between 11am and 11.30am and dinner between 4.30pm and 5pm.
On the weekend, she is served roast beef, mashed potatoes, and mixed vegetables for her evening meal.
Fitness routine
Maxwell (pictured) has been exercising inside the prison fences (Matt Symons / Mirrorpix)Despite her age, the 61-year-old is known among inmates to be a fitness fanatic, sometimes beating other, much younger women in a race.
She has been spotted running around the 400m asphalt track in a grey T-shirt, matching sweat shorts and trainers.
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"Ghislaine is incredibly fit," said a prison source.
"She runs almost every day, and when not jogging on the track, she will walk with one of her friends.
"For her age, she is incredibly active and does a 40 minutes session completing lap after lap without stopping before she needs to be back inside.
"She is happy to be allowed out in the open once again, where she has at least some semblance of freedom.
"When not working in the law library, she stays outside in the sun for hours.
"She is very, very sociable."
New hobby
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured in 2005 (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)Lockdown conditions in Florida's Tallahassee jail have recently been eased – allowing cons more recreation time.
Maxwell has reportedly become obsessed with playing softball in prison, representing her wing in competitive games.
The child sex trafficker loves the sport so much, inmates have dubbed her 'Dottie' after the character in baseball movie A League of Their Own.
And she is now a key player in her B South unit's softball team, beating bitter rivals A South unit and another wing.
A prison source said: "Ghislaine is very popular among the girls. She is very sociable.
"Straight away, she began mixing with others taking part in all manner of activities. She almost won musical chairs one day, getting down to the last two.
"But it's her love of softball she seems to most enjoy. Whenever there is a game, Ghislaine want to play. When she took to the field, they called her Dottie. It stuck."
Etiquette classes
Maxwell has now been transferred to FCI Tallahassee (pictured) (Google)Maxwell is reportedly hosting etiquette classes for prison inmates and preaching about women's empowerment.
The convicted teen sex trafficker holds classes twice a week for up to 40 prisoners, teaching them about how to have good manners as well as how to talk, dress and behave in a job interview, an insider has claimed.
Maxwell is said to be "passionate" about the course as she wants to promote herself as a female "role model", according to sources at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida.
A flyer pinned up inside the prison, which promotes the course, says: "Taught by Mrs. Maxwell, this course teaches the three principles of etiquette – focusing on respect, consideration and honesty."
An insider said Maxwell's classes have proven so popular that she is hosting the course in both English and Spanish, with the help of a Colombian inmate who is acting as a translator for the jail's Hispanic population.
A source told the Daily Mail: "It's less about balancing books on heads and being ladylike, and more about having confidence in yourself – how to behave and talk in a professional manner, the secrets of success in the corporate world, that sort of thing.
"Miss Maxwell's message is, so what if you're a woman and a convicted felon, you're not a second class citizen. She's an unlikely role model but she's very passionate about this."
Call centre job
Maxwell (pictured) is reportedly looking to work in the prison call centre (TalkTV)Oxford-educated Maxwell will have a literacy test to see if she has the skills to work in the prison's call centre.
If she passes she will earn 99p an hour selling cut-price internet, TV and phone bundles for a telecommunications giant.
The company outsources some of its call centre work to Florida’s FCI Tallahassee female prison, where she is held.
She will be paid three times more than her current role in the jail law library but she will need a lot of hours to pay off the £644,000 fine imposed by her trial judge.
A prison insider said: "Many of the girls work in the call centre. Customers would never know they are talking to a drug dealer, armed robber, killer or in Ghislaine’s case, a sex trafficker.
"The girls have been joking if she does move jobs, callers will think they've called Buckingham Palace with her posh accent.
"Being on the phones allows the girls contact with the outside world. Some find it a lifeline."
Jeremy Kyle interview
Maxwell has spoken to Jeremy Kyle from behind bars - in an interviewing airing tonight on TalkTV.
While speaking from prison, she told the presenter she regrets ever meeting ex-partner Epstein and didn't know he was "capable of evil".
"Clearly my association and the fact that I worked for him and spent time with him and knew him has devastated my life and hurt many people that I’ve loved and hold dear around me," she said.
"I honestly wish I had never met him. I wish…I had stayed in England. I’d been a banker and so I should have moved on from him.
"I didn't know that he was so awful. I mean, obviously now, looking back with hindsight, of course."
Maxwell also goes on to say she believes the photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre is "fake" - and says she has "no memory" of it.
An undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on August 9, 2021 by the United States District Couty for the Southern District of New York shows (L-R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo (US District Court - Southern Dis)Ms Giuffre (nee Roberts) brought a civil case alleging Prince Andrew had forced her to have sex with him on three occasions - at Maxwell's London home, at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse and in the Virgin Islands - in 2001 when she was 17 years old.
Prince Andrew denies the allegations and later agreed to an out of court settlement with his accuser. The settlement is not an admission of guilt and the Duke of York continues to deny any wrongdoing.
Ms Giuffre used the image, where Prince Andrew appears to have his arm round her, as evidence to support her allegations against the prince before the case was settled outside of court.
Speaking of the image, Maxwell told Kyle: "I have no memory of them meeting. And I don’t think that picture is real.
"There is no original of that photo, (just) copies of copies and parts of it, according to some experts, look like it has been photoshopped. I don’t remember her in my home."
She added: "I know that Virginia travelled with Jeffrey, and so it's entirely possible. It wasn't something so outrageously out of left field that it couldn’t have happened."
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