Ghislaine Maxwell: Sex, Lies and Secrets

Documentary profile of the sex trafficker, being told over three nights, beginning by delving into her lavish childhood in the shadow of a tyrannical father and examining if this affected the woman she was to become. Her father's death left the family penniless and ostracised, but Ghislaine's move to New York in the early 1990s, and association with a mysterious money manager, enabled her to make a new start. But at what price?

The documentary focuses on the shocking contrast between the incredible wealth and power wielded by Ghislaine Maxwell and her partner Jeffrey Epstein in American high society, and the crimes they were committing behind closed doors. They entertained presidents and princes in fabulous properties and on a private island. But there are those who claim Maxwell enticed them into that world only to feed Epstein's sexual aberrations.

This instalment of the documentary charts events in the steady demise of Ghislaine Maxwell. The socialite narrowly escaped an initial police investigation into the sexual abuse of dozens of underage girls in Epstein's Florida mansion. However, her subsequent rehabilitation as an environmentalist was scuppered when she went on the offensive against an accuser. Lawyers of survivors explain their innovative strategy that forced Ghislaine into a corner. It initiated a domino effect that eventually led to an ultimate reckoning - at the criminal trial that found her guilty in December 2021.