John Sweeney, in his investigation of Ghislaine Maxwell and her father Robert Maxwell, argues that the root of her later role in the Jeffrey Epstein saga was the toxic and abusive dynamic with her father. He describes Robert Maxwell as “a monster, cruel, mad,” whose sadistic, domineering behavior created a deeply distorted childhood for Ghislaine—one in which she was both favoured and trapped in a patriarchal cult of power he built.


Sweeney contends that Ghislaine’s upbringing under Robert’s tyranny left her emotionally deformed and predisposed to seeking a similar type of dominant male figure, ultimately shaping her alignment with Epstein. He frames her descent as a dark fairy-tale “in reverse,” where the princess begins in a palace and ends in a dungeon—claiming that she replaced one “monster” (her father) with another (Epstein) and that her role in the abuse network was under-girded by the damage inflicted in her early family life.


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