A dishevelled Ghislaine Maxwell has been pictured walking behind bars as she reportedly works on a memoir to combat public knowledge about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The 62-year-old, who is serving a 20-year sentence at FCI Tallahassee in Florida, was spotted with her hands balled up inside her sleeves as she stepped outside for some exercise.
The disgraced socialite was also seen sporting a new shorter haircut as she did laps of the facility’s exercise yard on in frigid temperatures on Sunday, February 18.
It comes amid claims she is working on a book in which she will confront ‘misinformation’ about her ties to billionaire Epstein after court documents named the dead paedophile’s associates and new details of his grooming empire earlier this year.
In January DailyMail.com revealed that Maxwell had been telling her fellow inmates in prison to ignore the reports and promised she would write memoir giving ‘the truth’, although this is expected to be an attempt to whitewash her involvement.
A dishevelled Ghislaine Maxwell was seen in exercise yard at FCI Tallahassee in Florida on Sunday, February 18
The 62-year-old was seen wearing an all-grey outfit, with her hands balled up underneath her sleeves as she did laps outside
The convicted sex trafficker was seen sporting a new shorter hairstyle as she continues to serve her 20-year sentence
A source claimed that Maxwell, who was a close associate of Epstein for years, claimed ‘the documents in the news are all false or misinformation’ and ‘the truth will only come out when her book does’.
The insider said: ‘She’s bragging about how great it will be but it sounds like the same old lies she has told a thousand times.
‘She really thinks she hasn’t done anything wrong and that her charges will be dropped when people read it.’
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking teenagers and multiple counts of conspiracy after a 2021 federal trial heard how she lured girls as young as 14 into Epstein’s clutches.
In a self-serving prison interview last year, she denied knowledge of the dead financier’s crimes, insisting she regretted ever meeting him and had no idea he was ‘capable of evil.’
But hundreds of documents made public in January, relating to a long-settled defamation case filed against Maxwell by Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre, make a mockery of her claims of innocence.
Scores of famous people including Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Stephen Hawking were outed as being friends or associates of the late predator, who hanged himself behind bars in 2019 instead of facing trial.
But multiple testimonies from victims and former Epstein aides once more insisted that Maxwell was ‘the boss’ of his underage sex ring, drawing the same conclusion as jurors in her New York trial.
Maxwell, who procured minors for sex offender and one-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, has been allegedly dispelling reports about the recently released trove of court documents naming his associates to her pals in prison, insiders say
Maxwell’s close relationship with Epstein was well-documented in public over the years, yet she still denies having knowledge of the dead financier’s crimes
Federal inmates are prohibited from cutting publishing deals but there’s nothing to prevent Maxwell from writing a ‘private manuscript’, an activity protected by the First Amendment, and mailing it to a lawyer or loved one for distribution.
She doesn’t have a computer but has access to a typewriter and can bone up on the legal system via her job in the law library at the low security Tallahassee prison where she’s been incarcerated since July 2022.
‘She has access to three lockers in legal and moves her manuscript and papers from one to the other because she’s so paranoid that someone might steal it or leak it,’ the source added.
‘Apparently it’s already finished but she is waiting for the right moment to publish it.’
The source explained how Maxwell has become increasingly withdrawn and bitter during her time behind bars, throwing temper tantrums and barely participating in prison life.
DailyMail.com previously revealed how Maxwell hosted yoga and etiquette classes for her 846 fellow cons after arriving in the Sunshine State and would go jogging every day on the running track.
She recently abandoned plans to participate in a prison ‘marathon’ race, however, barely gets any exercise and rarely goes outside.
‘Max hasn’t dyed her hair. She barely takes care of herself these days. She still has the job in the law library but she’s very rude to anyone who asks for help,’ our source said.
Multiple testimonies from victims and former Epstein aides once more insisted that Maxwell was ‘the boss’ of his underage sex ring, drawing the same conclusion as jurors in her New York trial
During her first televised prison interview last year with UK broadcaster Jeremy Kyle, Maxwell sensationally claimed, without evidence, that the now-notorious photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts Giuffre was fake
Maxwell was convicted on December 29, 2021 on five of the six counts she faced for helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls
Maxwell’s bleak financial condition and incarceration is a striking fall from grace for the favorite daughter of the late media baron Robert Maxwell. Pictured: General views of FCI Tallahassee
Early reports revealed how the disgraced British socialite struggled to cope with her new life behind bars, refusing to eat and complaining bitterly to prison authorities that her clothes didn’t fit
‘I think it’s because she’s finally realised that she’s not getting out of here anytime soon. This will all change, however, when her book comes out – or so she thinks.’
Maxwell asked to serve her time at FCI Danbury, the white-collar Connecticut lockup that inspired Orange is the New Black, but was unexpectedly shipped 1,000 miles south to Florida.
FCI Tallahassee bosses tried to keep inmates from learning too much about her by removing the library’s only copy of Filthy Rich – James Patterson’s bestselling book about Epstein’s crimes.
But as word got around about her ties to the billionaire paedophile, she found herself being despised by her fellow felons who say she is aloof and has poor hygiene.
Controversy ensued when Maxwell used the prison’s video visit system to give an interview to UK broadcaster Jeremy Kyle in which she claimed, without evidence, that the now-notorious photograph of Prince Andrew and Giuffre was fake.
DailyMail.com revealed how the chat earned Maxwell 48 hours in the Special Housing Unit – a ‘prison within a prison’ comprising tiny, grim cells where inmates are caged for 23 hours at a time and fed through slits in the door.
It also reported that the Brit earned the title ‘Prison Karen’ after lodging hundreds of petty complaints about life behind bars, from slating the paltry vegan menu to moaning about a transgender inmate having noisy sex in the bunk above hers.
Maxwell – federal prisoner 02879-509 – also landed two Cuban felons in solitary confinement after snitching on them for demanding that she buy them items with her $360 commissary allowance.
She will be nearly 80 by the time she’s freed unless she can successfully appeal her convictions for helping Epstein, who committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial in August 2019. He was 66.
Federal prosecutors deny claims she was made a scapegoat for his crimes.
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