From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.

Today,

Glean Maxwell's years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

has raised questions about what she may have known, about allegations of sex trafficking against him.

Now, thousands of pages of sealed documents stemming from their relationship

are about to be made public.

It's Friday, July 26th.

Megan Tuey, tell us about Glean Maxwell.

So she is the daughter. She's one of nine children born to a British media mogul named Robert Maxwell.

She grew up in like a 50-room mansion in England. Her father sailed a boat called the Lady Glean, presumably an indication that she was maybe one of his favorites.

And so she came up rubbing shoulders with kind of aristocrats and royalty and really led a rich and charmed life in England.

And then in the early 90s came to New York and the timing was remarkable. That same year in 1991, her father tumbled off that boat to his death,

amidst mounting debt.

And later that year it was revealed that he had also basically pillaged the pensions of his employees.

So she was basically getting a start in New York as her family fortune was disappearing and her family's name was in ruins.

And right around that time she meets Jeffrey Epstein.

It's not clear exactly when their relationship may be shifted from being romantic to not being romantic.

But what happened is as the allegations against Epstein started to surface in the mid 2000s,

there were also allegations that emerged against Maxwell.

The reporting on her that I did with my colleague Jacob Bernstein, we found that one of the friends who socialized, who attended their dinner parties, said that Maxwell seemed to be half ex-girlfriend, half employee, half best friend and fixer.

But you also have a couple of Epstein's accusers use much different language to describe her role. One of them has described her as his madam.

Which is a way of saying that she was in charge of arranging sexual interactions.

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