Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell, faced a dramatic fall from grace after her father's death in 1991. Robert Maxwell's death, officially ruled a heart attack and accidental drowning, left behind a scandal involving the theft of nearly half a billion British pounds from pension funds. Ghislaine, defending her father's innocence, soon became entangled with Jeffrey Epstein. Their relationship, which began romantically in the early 1990s, evolved into a criminal partnership.