Maximum Maxwell tells the story of the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, and part of the wider Jeffrey Epstein scandal so far left untouched.
From Ghislaine Maxwell's forays to New York to do the fraudulent and acquisitive business of her father Robert Maxwell, to her role in ferrying big-wigs and international politicians to Epstein's "Little St. Jeff's" island to be filmed "frolicking," Maximum Maxwell ties the daily testimony of the trial to the wider conspiracy.
The author asked Maxwell questions during her 2013 press conference inside the UN. Then, after he asked about UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres links to Maxwell and her Terramar Project, he was thrown out of the UN.
He came to cover the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, producing reports and podcasts and live-tweeted threads, as well as a series of stories involving both Kurt Wheelock (first introduced in Predatory Bender, then in Belt and Roadkill) and lawyer Michael Randall Long.
Maximum Maxwell goes all the way to the day of the verdict - guilty on five of six counts - and to publication that very night. It is the first of a series.