Introducing... Power: The Maxwells

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Everyone’s heard of Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged partner in crime). But there’s a shadowy figure who hangs above her who you likely don’t know: her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell. His rise from nothing to fall… from the deck of his super yacht under mysterious circumstances is straight out of a crime novel. His favorite daughter Ghislaine’s theory: her father was murdered. From Somethin’ Else, makers of ‘The Immaculate Deception’ and ‘Faultline: Bush, Blair & Iraq’, hosted by Investigative journalist Tara Palmeri, ‘Power: The Maxwells’ is a seven part series on the incredible true story of a media mogul whose legacy is still being felt today. A Somethin' Else Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	She'd slithered away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire, while her victims lived
0:09.7	with a trauma inflicted upon them years ago.
0:12.5	It's hard to have missed the recent news about Galein Maxwell.
0:15.6	In July 2020, she was charged with recruiting underage girls for convicted sex offender,
0:20.9	Jeffrey Epstein.
0:22.5	She was an international party girl, a jet-setter.
0:25.4	She was friends with princes and presidents.
0:27.7	Now, she sits in a Brooklyn jail awaiting trial.
0:31.5	I just wish her well, frankly.
0:34.3	I'm Tara Palmerri.
0:37.1	I'm an investigative journalist, and recently the host of Broken Seeking Justice, a podcast
0:42.5	about the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein as they pursue their own justice.
0:46.9	I heard so many stories about Galein, but she still remains a real mystery to me.
0:52.4	How does a woman who appears to have absolutely everything in the world, connections, money,
0:57.8	power, fall so low?
1:00.9	Then I started to hear stories about her family.
1:04.8	It was a family steeped in power and drama, and at the head of it was her father, Robert
1:10.5	Maxwell.
1:11.5	I'm in Britain.
1:14.9	We had two really big media moogles.
1:18.6	About one was Rupert Murdoch, and then there was Robert Maxwell.
1:21.9	And do you think that he wanted to become a power broker in New York City?
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