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Power: Don King

The Maxwells UPDATE: Follow The Money

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A recent discovery of some of Kevin and Ian Maxwell’s financial records show things weren’t quite as they seemed. In this follow-up episode of Power: The Maxwells, Tara calls up journalist James Hurley and former Natwest executive David Leal-Bennett to find out exactly what happened and what they think of the new allegations against the Maxwells. Were they really bankrupt or was someone helping them hide their fortune? Where will the money trail lead us? Power is a Somethin’ Else production with Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's been a while. Remember this about Galein Maxwell? She said it at the tea party.

0:07.9

I am broke. She said it more than once and I just didn't really read the signs that she was

0:14.4

sitting in rather a pretty apartment that you can't have if you broke. Galein Maxwell said she

0:21.0

was strapped for cash. But according to Christina Oxenberg, who socialized with her in New York,

0:27.3

Galein's lifestyle completely contradicted that. Now we might have some insight into why the

0:33.2

Maxwell's sometimes said they were broke but appeared to be the opposite. A few months ago, I learned

0:39.5

that Kevin and Ian Maxwell had popped up in a trove of documents that detailed the financial

0:44.6

shenanigans of a trust company in a Jersey tax haven. Could these documents finally answer

0:50.5

our questions about the millions of pounds that have gone missing under the Maxwell's?

0:54.4

I'm Tara Palmeri and this is Power, The Maxwell's.

1:03.1

You're back to your conversation to myself and the journalist James Hurley. I called him up at

1:07.7

his office at the Times in London where he writes about private companies and entrepreneurs.

1:12.4

James has been working with the people who made the discovery of Maxwell's finances

1:16.3

and he's going to explain exactly what happened.

1:18.9

So this whole story starts with a bunch of dusty boxes found by a woman called Tanya in 2012.

1:30.2

Can you tell me a little bit about Tanya Dickstock, who she was and who her father John Dick was?

1:35.9

Tanya Dickstock is an American airs and son of a gentleman called John Dick, who's quite a

1:42.0

well-known businessman who's on the board of global media conglomerate Liberty Media.

1:46.9

Tanya is married to a chap called Darren and it was during the planning for their wedding

1:53.0

that they discovered 350,000 files in more than 330 boxes in a Jersey squash court.

2:01.7

Tanya finds a huge number of confidential documents on the grounds of her family home.

2:07.0

Can you tell me more about the company those documents are related to?

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