Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine gets subpoena

The girl after whom Robert Maxwell named his infamous yacht, his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, has been issued with a subpoena by a US court dealing with lawsuits brought by 24 young women against her friend, the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, who also counted Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew among his friends before he went to jail last summer, is the 56-year-old billionaire convicted of soliciting underage girls for sex sessions at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. The girls were paid between $200 and $300 each in return for naked massages - sessions which sometimes led to sex.

Epstein left prison in July after spending a year of his 18-month sentence in a county jail in Florida. Now some of the women who claim he lured them to his house for sex are suing him in a civil case. A Florida lawyer, Brad Edwards, has told the press that Ghislaine Maxwell would be questioned over her knowledge of how Epstein procured the girls.

Nadia Marcinkova, Epstein's Yugoslavian-born girlfriend - described in some reports as his lesbian sex slave - has also been slapped with a subpoena. She visited Epstein regularly during his year in the county jail, before the couple were reunited on his release.

The precise details of Robert Maxwell's drowning in 1991 have never been established. But it is known that he was seen alive on the Lady Ghislaine, the £15m yacht he named after his daughter, before his body was discovered in the sea off the Canary Islands. ·