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Ghislaine Noelle Maxwell (* 25. Dezember 1961 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, Frankreich) ist eine britisch-amerikanisch-französische Geschäftsfrau und verurteilte Sexualstraftäterin.

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Jugend und Familie

Maxwell wurde am 25. Dezember 1961 in Maisons-Laffitte nahe der französischen Hauptstadt Paris als neuntes Kind von Elisabeth Meynard (1921–2013), einer französischstämmigen Holocaustforscherin, und dem tschechoslowakisch-britischen Verleger Robert Maxwell (1923–1991; geboren als Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch) geboren. Robert Maxwell baute nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ein Verlagsimperium und eine politische Karriere im Vereinigten Königreich auf. Sie wuchs in Oxford auf dem weitläufigen Landsitz der Familie, Headington Hill Hall, im Osten der Universitätsstadt auf. Dort besuchte sie die Mädchenschule und später das Balliol College der Universität Oxford.

Maxwell gründete einen nach dem historischen Kit-Cat-Klub benannten Frauenclub in London und arbeitete, als ihr Vater Eigentümer von Oxford United war, als Direktorin des Fußballvereins. Außerdem arbeitete sie beim European, einer von ihrem Vater gegründeten Wochenzeitung.

Ihr Vater starb im November 1991, während er mit seiner Hochseeyacht Lady Ghislaine vor den Kanarischen Inseln unterwegs war. Sein Leichnam wurde nackt in der Nähe von Teneriffa aus dem ruhigen Wasser geborgen. Sie behauptet, dass ihr Vater nicht durch Ertrinken im Suizid starb, sondern dass er ermordet wurde. Nach seinem Tod brach sein Medienimperium zusammen; Ende 1991 lag die Konzernverschuldung bei drei Milliarden Pfund Sterling.

Maxwell lebte seit 2007 in Manchester-by-the-Sea im Haus von Scott G. Borgerson, der den von ihm gegründeten Hedgefonds CargoMetrics führte; er trat vom Vorstand im Oktober 2020 zurück. Maxwell und Borgerson führten eine Beziehung und heirateten 2016.

Karriere
Nach 1991 siedelte sie in die Vereinigten Staaten über. Sie zog nach New York City und lernte dort den Investmentbanker Jeffrey Epstein kennen. Sie stieg in der New Yorker Gesellschaft auf und pflegte Beziehungen zu Prominenten. In New York arbeitete sie kurzzeitig für ein Wohnungsunternehmen. Eine von ihr gegründete Werbemittelfirma war unrentabel und musste schließen.

Während dieser Zeit beschrieb sie sich als "Internetbetreiberin". Sie besaß "einen erheblichen Anteil" an der McKinley Group, einem Unternehmen, das im Januar 1992 von ihren Zwillingsschwestern Christine Maxwell und Isabel Maxwell zusammen mit Isabels damaligem Ehemann, David Hayden, gründet wurde und Anbieter einer der ersten der Internetsuchmaschine Magellan war. Im Juni 1996 verkauften sie es gegen Aktien des Konkurrenzunternehmens Excite, die im Wert in die Höhe schnellten und den Schwestern ein gemeinsames Vermögen von 100 Millionen Pfund einbrachten, was ihnen 1999 einen Platz in der Sunday Times Rich List einbrachte.

2012 gründete sie das TerraMar-Projekt zur Rettung der Weltmeere. Mit dem TerraMar-Projekt nahm sie an der ersten Versammlung des "Arctic Circle" vom 12. bis 14. Oktober 2013 in Reykjavík im Konferenzzentrum Harpa teil. Ab 2015 zog sie sich von ihren sozialen Verpflichtungen zurück. Nach der Verhaftung Epsteins im Juli 2019 beendete sie das TerraMar-Projekt.

Verbindungen zu Jeffrey Epstein
Maxwell wurde Epsteins Geschäftspartnerin. Er bezeichnete sie als seine beste Freundin.

Im Zuge der Anschuldigungen gegen Epstein, einen Kindesmissbrauchsring gegründet zu haben, wurden ihr die Duldung und Unterstützung der Machenschaften Epsteins vorgeworfen. Sie habe als Epsteins Zuhälterin gewirkt, indem sie Mädchen für ihn ausgesucht und sie für den Geschlechtsverkehr trainiert habe. Maxwell wird außerdem beschuldigt, 1996 die 16‐Jährige Annie Farmer selbst sexuell missbraucht zu haben. Sie bestreitet dies sowie die Kenntnis von illegalen Aktivitäten Epsteins.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre führte einen Zivilprozess wegen Diffamierung gegen Maxwell, der 2015 publik wurde. Sie behauptete, Maxwell habe sie 1999 für Epstein rekrutiert und danach mehrmals zu sexuellen Handlungen gebracht, nachdem sie sich in Donald Trumps Privatclub Mar-a-Lago getroffen hatten, was Maxwell bestritt. Maxwell bezeichnete die Anschuldigungen als "offensichtliche Lügen", was zu dem Prozess führte. 2017 kam es zu einem Vergleich zwischen den Parteien, der mehrere Millionen US-Dollar an Zahlungen an Giuffre beinhaltete. Eine Vielzahl weiterer Klagen wurden gegen Maxwell geführt.

Ende Juli 2020 wurde zunächst ein Teil der Dokumente aus der vertraulich beigelegten Zivilklage von Virginia Roberts Giuffre gegen Maxwell mit gerichtlicher Genehmigung veröffentlicht. Sie enthüllen eine Reihe von Behauptungen über die Rolle Maxwells im Zusammenhang mit den Anschuldigungen gegen Epstein. Demnach behauptete Giuffre auch, von Maxwell als "Sexsklavin" ausgebildet worden zu sein. Dort von Maxwell gemachte Aussagen, die auch ihr eigenes Sexualleben betreffen, wurden erst nach Abschluss eines von Maxwells Anwälten eingeleiteten, aber nicht erfolgreichen Berufungsverfahrens Ende Oktober 2020 veröffentlicht.

Nach Epsteins Suizid in der Untersuchungshaft im August 2019 war Maxwells Aufenthaltsort unbekannt. Nach einer gerichtlichen Anhörung im Januar 2020 vor dem US-Bezirksgericht in Manhattan zu einem Streit mit Virginia Roberts Giuffre über die Offenlegung von Dokumenten erklärte die Anwältin von Maxwell, sie wisse nicht, wo sich ihre Mandantin befinde.

Im März 2020 verklagte Maxwell Epsteins Nachlass auf Erstattung von Kosten für Sicherheitsdienste und Gerichtsverfahren, da Epstein ihr 2004 versichert habe, sie immer finanziell zu unterstützen. Darren Indyke, ein Ex-Anwalt Epsteins und Testamentsvollstrecker, habe ihr nach dessen Tod noch einmal versichert, dass sie das Geld bekommen werde. Mehrere Anwälte der mutmaßlichen Opfer Epsteins zeigten sich empört über die Klage und forderten, das Geld stünde ihren Mandantinnen zu.

Anklage und Strafprozess wegen Sexualdelikten

Verhaftung
Am 2. Juli 2020 nahm das FBI Maxwell in einem abgelegenen Waldstück nahe Bradford in New Hampshire fest. Dort hatte sie im Dezember 2019 ein Eine-Million-Dollar-Anwesen mit umliegenden 63 Hektar Land durch die anonymisierte LLC Granite Reality erworben und sich dort acht Monate lang versteckt. Weiter ordneten die Ermittler Maxwell etwa 15 Bankkonten zu, auf denen seit 2016 zwischenzeitlich bis zu 20 Millionen US-Dollar deponiert waren. Das FBI erklärte, man habe gewusst, dass Maxwell sich in New Hampshire aufgehalten habe, aber auf die Anklageschrift gewartet, um sie festzunehmen.

Anklageschrift
In der Anklageschrift des Bundesanwalts für Manhattan werden Maxwell hauptsächlich Sexualdelikte in Zusammenarbeit mit Epstein in sechs Punkten vorgeworfen, darunter Verführung von Minderjährigen und Handel mit Kindern zwischen 1994 und 2004. Ihr wird die Rekrutierung Minderjähriger für sexuelle Handlungen mit Epstein vorgeworfen. Zudem wirft die Staatsanwaltschaft ihr vor, 2016 zwei Mal unter Eid gelogen zu haben.

Bei der Klageerhebung der Grand Jury gegen Maxwell erklärte die New Yorker Staatsanwältin Audrey Strauss, die Vorwürfe gegen Maxwell bezögen sich auf die Jahre 1994 bis 1997.

Ende März 2021 wurde die Klageschrift um weitere Vorwürfe und der Tatzeitraum auf 1994 bis 2004 erweitert.

Kautionsverhandlung
Die Staatsanwaltschaft drängte darauf, Maxwell vor dem Prozess in Haft zu nehmen mit dem Argument, dass ihre beträchtlichen finanziellen Mittel und die Möglichkeit einer jahrzehntelangen Haftstrafe eine extreme Fluchtgefahr darstellten: "Kurz gesagt, Maxwell hat drei Pässe, große Geldsummen, weitreichende internationale Verbindungen und absolut keinen Grund, in den Vereinigten Staaten zu bleiben und sich der Möglichkeit einer langen Gefängnisstrafe auszusetzen." Diesem Antrag der Staatsanwaltschaft wurde bei der ersten Gerichtsanhörung, in der Maxwell auf "nicht schuldig" plädierte, stattgegeben. Sie wurde bis zum Prozessbeginn am 12. Juli 2021 im Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) im New Yorker Stadtteil Brooklyn inhaftiert.

Anfang Dezember 2020 ersuchte Maxwell das Gericht um eine zweite Kautionsverhandlung. Der Antrag fordert statt der Untersuchungshaft einen Hausarrest. Dafür wurde eine Kaution über 28,5 Millionen US-Dollar vorgeschlagen. Zudem würde Maxwell auf ihr Recht auf Anfechtung der Auslieferung sowohl im Vereinigten Königreich als auch in Frankreich verzichten, wo sie die Staatsbürgerschaft besitzt. Am 28. Dezember 2020 lehnte die Richterin Alison Nathan den Antrag von Maxwells Anwältin Bobbi C. Sternheim zur Kautionsverhandlung ab.

Untersuchungshaft
Maxwell wird im MDC laut Staatsanwälten zu ihrer eigenen "Sicherheit und der des ordnungsgemäßen Funktionierens der Einrichtung" von den anderen Insassen isoliert. Sie ist daher 21 Stunden am Tag in ihrer Zelle. Weiterhin wird Maxwell rund um die Uhr vom Anstaltspersonal überwacht, um einen Suizid zu verhindern. Zudem werden zahlreiche Körperscans an ihr durchgeführt. Gegen diese Maßnahmen des MDC haben ihre Anwälte im August 2020 erfolglos Beschwerde eingereicht. Jedoch wurden Maxwell 13 Stunden anstatt der üblichen drei pro Tag gewährt, um die Materialien für ihren Strafprozess zu sichten. Im November 2021 reichten Maxwells Angehörige über Menschenrechtsanwälte Beschwerde bei den Vereinten Nationen ein, da ihrer Ansicht nach die Haftbedingungen (die "unhygienisch" und "unmenschlich" seien) gegen die Unschuldsvermutung verstießen. Die Anwälte stellten infrage, dass der Prozess fair verlaufen werde. Sie argumentierten, dass wegen der breiten Berichterstattung über den Fall bereits eine Vorverurteilung in der US-amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit stattgefunden habe.

Urteil
Am 29. Dezember 2021 wurde Maxwell in fünf von sechs Anklagepunkten schuldig gesprochen. Einer der Anwälte kündigte an, gegen das Urteil in Berufung zu gehen. Am 28. Juni 2022 wurde das Strafmaß, 20 Jahre Freiheitsstrafe und eine Geldstrafe von 750.000 US-Dollar, verkündet.

Die Verhandlung wegen möglichen Meineids im Zuge von Aussagen während eines Prozesses gegen Epstein im Jahr 2015 steht noch aus.

Sie wurde im Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee in Florida, einem Bundesgefängnis mit niedriger Sicherheitsstufe inhaftiert. Sie soll dort bis zum 17. Juli 2037 bleiben.

Weblinks
 United States District Court / Southern District of New York: Anklageschrift gegen Ghislaine Maxwell vom 2. Juli 2020 (englisch)
 Am 30. Juli 2020 sowie am 22. Oktober 2020 veröffentlichte Dokumente aus der 2017 vertraulich beigelegten Zivilklage von Virginia Roberts Giuffre gegen Maxwell (siehe für die am 30. Juli 2020 veröffentlichten Dokumente auch Attachment 5 für eine inhaltliche Übersicht der Anhänge A bis J aus der Zivilklage).

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Solange, SZA and Roddy Ricch Are Headlining This Virtual Festival
You won't want to miss it
Sarah Ben Romdane
Coronavirus might have cancelled everything from Coachella to Burning Man, but live music continues to live on, thanks to Michelle Obama (yes, the former American First Lady).
The star of Netflix documentary Becoming, will be bringing back to life 'Roots Picnic'– a music festival that has been held for the past 13 years by hip-hop band The Roots. Not only that, but Obama herself will be co-hosting it.
The event usually takes place over the course of a weekend in Philadelphia. This year, they're taking a different direction. The festival will be held online on June 27, and will include performances of artists like Solange, SZA, Lil Uzi Vert, Roddy Ricch, Lil Baby and Pharrell.
And it's not just about music. Michelle Obama's involvement is no coincidence; this year's edition aims to encourage young people to go vote.
In addition to the concerts, some of your favourite journalists and activists have also been invited to take part in the live-streamed event. Former Teen Vogue Editor in Chief, Elaine Welteroth, Tracee Elliss Ross and Janelle Monae are on the roster, with an overarching mission to inspire a political revolution among young people.
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There couldn't be a better time for such an event. Witnessing the tragic death of George Floyd in the midst of a pandemic has galvanised a new generation of activists globally, determined to demand change and ready to take action.
If you're on a mission to fight for a better world, and want to listen to some really good music in the process—look further. Roots Picnic has made it possible. All you have to do is register here and bring all your friends.

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I see a lot of new technology that says it does a lot in recruitment. To be honest I'm a little bored of it. Not I hope because I'm now approaching my mid thirties and my enthusiasm for technology gets handed down to the next generation, not because I don't understand it (yet) but simply because it matters very little. That is, in the grand scheme of a strong employer brand.
And all too often at the moment employers are getting too excited by gadgety type technologies and missing the bigger picture.
Here's the point. It doesn't matter what technology you use to attract, match, search or hunt your candidates from – if you have a poor employer brand. They still won't want to work for you. Stop everything else now and think for a moment. "Is the promise of employment at my company the very best it can be." If the answer is yes then continue to indulge in your latest technology trials and things. If the answer is no, it's no wonder you keep looking for your silver bullet of recruitment. Bad news, you're looking in the wrong place and your job scraping, social media, cv matching, iris recognition software is just papering over the cracks.
If couldn't tell by now it annoys the hell out of me. Recruitment comms. is over run by too many tech and software companies trying to create the next job board. I don't blame them, I'm all for R&D I just wish employers would stop looking in the wrong place for the answer. I know why they do it. Often it's easier to look outside than inside, but I can't stress enough that if you have a problem recruiting and retaining, the answer rarely lies in a tool that will either generate more applications or spread the message wider no matter how intrinsically intelligent it does that (whatever that means).
I've no axe to grind here, it's not the battle of the developer and the artist – of which I'm neither. I'm the type of person who tries to look for the root of a problem rather than get overexcited by the next technology 'revolution'.
The answer to all of this? Not sure what the solution is but a return to basics won't go amiss (looking at how you treat candidates, not double page spreads in the nationals). I suppose there will always be a new thing to get more candidates but often these things will either go on to be another LinkedIn or burn out and die.
Whilst on the subject of looking inside, it's well discussed that the ad agency model isn't perfect either. We all have to develop end to end relationships with clients that add value in advising on what they should and shouldn't be doing. There's always room to improve no matter where or what industry you work in.


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Tammy Sullivan established Heavenly Pets in 1990, and it has been a rising thriving enterprise ever since. Most unique pets are illegal in California, and Hawaii has the strictest pet laws as a result of island ecosystems are probably the most prone to invasive species (mockingly, one in every of their most prominent invasive species, the domesticated cat, is likely one of the few pets you possibly can personal there). In addition they need loads of area, so except you reside in a zoo or on a large farm, excessive upkeep pets in all probability aren't for you! Pets almost certainly can not survive on their own and if by some remote chance they do, you may not be able to find them if you return.
I will blame the strict legal guidelines of Turkey that kept me away from ferrets and the animal encyclopedias I've learn for making me flip into a loopy potential animal hoarder. The idea of using zebras has been popularized by the kids's film Racing Stripes. These are imperative steps to take to insure that you understand what you are entering into so you may care for your animal at some point of its life. Liza may not be at all adoption events because of the foster mom's work schedule.
I do not keep snakes as a result of I believe it makes me look cool I hold them as pets as a result of I actually have a passion for them and if you suppose they're better off in the wild then perform some research on how their life is on the market vs with me. Individuals who really feel that I shouldn't be allowed to personal a snake feel this manner as a result of they worry them and know nothing about them.
Keeping an unique animal as a pet may seem cool or it might make you totally different, but it's not price it. The The International Primatological Society , the American Society of Primatologists , the Humane Society , the American Veterinary Medical Affiliation , and the Jane Goodall Institute all speak out against having primates as pets.
We attain out to house owners of misplaced pets to assist share ideas and tricks for getting the word out about lost pets, in addition to learn how to search for misplaced pets. Seventy p.c of people signal their pet's name on greeting playing cards and fifty eight percent include their pets in family and holiday portraits, in keeping with a survey carried out by the American Animal Hospital Affiliation. When you've got a disagreement about the care of your pets after separation, negotiation, mediation and collaborative settlement processes are all higher methods of resolving your dispute than courtroom. Because of this you will need to be certain that our pets don't go through this both.


Danao City is a located approx 33 km north of Cebu City.
Danao has the choice of beach resorts or a water park – Intosan Resort and water Park!
Most locals come for the beaches and are packed during the weekend. The beaches are not really very good but the locals don't seem to mind, they are just enjoy the fun and family bonding! St Tomas de Villanueva Church originally built in 1755 is probably the highlight of the town, well worth the visit. Danao offers an alternative to getting to Camotes Island, Super Shuttle Ferries depart from Danao daily to Consuelo and Poro both in the Camotes Islands. These boats are large enough to carry cars. For those budding golfers Danao also has a 18 hole, par 72 golf course just outside of town (Club Filipino Golf and Country Club – tel 231 1676). The seaside fishing town is more famous for its gun making than its fishing and is the gun making capital of Cebu. The industry started way back in 1907 and still thrives today.
Celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of September (Danao City) in honor of the cities patron saint Sto. Tomas de Villanueva. The name Karansa comes from the dance which consists of 4 moves; the Kiay, the Karag, the Kurug and Kurahay all to the movement of the Karansa beat. Enjoy!
Danao has some local cuisine restaurants and a Jollibee, every Pinoy's favourite fast food chain!
Danao City can be reached by public buses or V-Hires (vans) from the Cebu North Terminal in Cebu City with an estimated travel time of about 1 1/2 hour.
Motorized tricycles and pedicabs are the means of transportation within the city. Public transports coming in and out of Danao City are mostly passenger jeepneys with the route Danao-Cebu. There are also passenger buses that also pass by Danao on the way to the northern towns from Cebu City and vice-versa.
There is no concrete record to support the story on how Danao got its name. Although in the 1960s there were circularized copies of a story concerning the early founding of Danao, but the contents and substance were but clear reproduction of an old legendary version which related of a Spanish Captain by the name of Manuel Aniceto del Rosario who, as the story went, was commissioned by the early Spanish authorities in the province of Cebu to establish municipalities starting from what is now Danao City towards the northern part of Cebu as far as what is now presently the municipality of Borbon.


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Posted By: Robert Nickels (ranickels)
On September 3, 1859 the Memphis Tennessee Daily Appeal noted a most startling event. "On Thursday night last, about 12 o clock, the heavens were suddenly lit up as with a half dozen moons." The glow was so remarkable that people assumed it must be coming from a massive fire, and the paper reported that city fire bells were rung. But, the paper writes "When the truth revealed itself, it appeared that old nature had only lit up its own chandelier." The lights were the aurora borealis, although you can hardly fault people from the American South for not recognizing the northern lights. And while the people of Memphis might have been overawed at the "Nature's chandelier," the article gives no indication that they truly knew how extraordinary the event was, nor its connection to the glowing ball of gas called the sun.
Carrington not only witnessed the largest solar flare in history - it was also the first one ever observed by man. Today we have satellites and solar observatories that monitor the Sun 24/7 but back then it was difficult to see a flare - unless you were specifically looking, as Carrington was. An event that deserves to be remembered, as this video by The History Guy does.
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Always install the QFE package first. This will prompt for a reboot. Before you reboot, please ensure that you have installed the EHCI Package also. Install the USB 2.0 EHCI package using Plug and Play INF driver installation procedures.


The magic of this hill resort is its exclusive location where a captivating view exists in every direction. Crushed green lawn in between the stone paths wind through this 15acre paradise connecting our extra spacious 15 mountain front rooms. There are no disturbances from your boss or your house owners. The only distractions are the outdoors and each other.


"My Grandfather's Clock" was written in the late nineteenth century by Henry C. Work, who is also famous for the Civil War song "Marching through Georgia." It was widely marketed as sheet music, and in player piano rolls, before the advent of sound recordings, and it has remained popular ever since. According to Wikipedia, the song is the origin of the name Grandfather Clock for an upright clock, which was previously known as a longform clock. The song is mostly performed today for children and as a virtuoso bluegrass number, but it was a well-loved "parlor tune" in its first incarnation, and a staple for vocalists and ensembles as well.