Former Sun editor Barbara Amiel lambastes Ghislaine Maxwell in memoir
Brad Hunter
Oct 03, 2020 • Last Updated October 3, 2020 • 2 minute read
Former Toronto Sun editor Barbara Amiel paints an unflattering portrait of accused sex predator Ghislaine Maxwell in her new memoir. TORONTO SUN
Former Toronto Sun editor Barbara Amiel pummels accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in her new memoir as a man-hungry user.
Amiel's book — Friends & Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue (out Oct. 13) — details her encounters with the British publishing heiress in New York City in the 1990s.
The Toronto writer said Maxwell, who is currently caged in a New York jail awaiting trial on a slew of sex trafficking charges, used their friendship to get close to a bevy male billionaires.
Maxwell was adrift in the early 1990s after her father, publishing baron Robert Maxwell, died mysteriously in the Canary Islands. Maxwell the pater had pillaged the pension fund of his Daily Mirror newspaper to the tune of nearly $1 billion.
"Ghislaine was renovating a house on 65th St. in Manhattan — we were on 66th, so it was easy to bump into her. 'I'm really lost in Manhattan,' she said to me one day," Amiel writes.
"'It would be so helpful if you could introduce me to someone that might advise me.' "
The fun couple. Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged "pimp" Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo by PHOTOGRAPHER /GETTY IMAGES
When said she suggested a successful, well-connected woman. No, this wasn't what Maxwell had in mind.
She replied: "I was thinking of Henry Kravis and Leonard Lauder."
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