The 58-year-old socialite has lodged a $28.5m (£21.4m) bid to get bail. She is being detained at the Metropolitan detention centre in Brooklyn on charges that she helped to procure girls as young as 14 for the late finance boss Jeffrey Epstein to abuse in the mid-1990s, and of perjury. Maxwell has denied the charges. Her trial is scheduled for July 2021 and if convicted she faces up to 35 years behind bars.
Ghislaine Maxwell at an Oxford United game Maxwell got married in 2016 and to support the bail application lawyers have included a letter from her husband. Life started out very differently when she was growing up in Oxford as the daughter of tycoon Robert Maxwell.
John le Carré obituary Eric Homberger
John le Carré, who has died aged 89 of pneumonia, raised the spy novel to a new level of seriousness and respect.
He was in his late 20s when he began to write fiction – in longhand, in small red pocket notebooks, on his daily train journey between his home in Buckinghamshire and his day job with MI5, the counter-intelligence service, in London. After the publication of two neatly crafted novels, Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of Quality (1962), which received measured reviews and modest sales, he hit the big time with The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).