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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 663 _ Filed 06/15/22 Page10of 77 GHISLAINE’S PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHARACTERISTICS ” Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell was born on December 25, 1961, in Maisons Laffitte, France, the last child born to the marriage of Robert and Elisabeth Maxwell. She is youngest of nine siblings. A sister died of childhood leukemia years before Ghislaine was born. Two days following Ghislaine’s birth, her eldest sibling, Michael, was seriously and permanently injured in a car accident. He remained in a coma on and then off life support for the next seven years. Family Tragedy and Controversy’® The tragedy caused by Michael’s accident and coma disrupted the equilibrium of the Maxwell family and transformed young Ghislaine’s formative years. Ghislaine was hardly given a glance and became anorexic while still a toddler. At age three, she stood in front of her mother and said simply, “Mummy, I exist.” On doctor’s orders exactly a year after Michael’s accident, her mother went on a long tour of India and Australia, leaving infant Ghislaine and her siblings not already in boarding school at home in the care of a nanny. With Robert Maxwell’s publishing company growing and his political career launched, the Maxwell home was filled with prominent guests and ongoing entertaining. As the children grew, they took part in the hosting of guests, having been instructed by their parents to be attentive to the needs of the guests. Despite Mr. Maxwell’s professed love for his children, his relationship with them began to change soon after he became a Member of Parliament. He stopped living at home regularly, essentially seeing the children only on Sunday, leaving little normal daily contact between father and child to counterbalance the peaks of crisis and drama he created in the family. Even on those Sundays there was an inevitable contingent of authors and businesspeople in whose ° The following discussion amplifies information contained in the PSR at 9134-178. '© This section is corroborated by the autobiography of Ghislaine’s mother, Elisabeth Maxwell: A Mind of My Own (Harper Collins 1994). DOJ-OGR-00010456