She was 92. According to … Photograph: Steve Wood/Rex/Shutterstock A t one time, everyone knew where to find Ghislaine Maxwell . Robert Maxwell set out to build a media empire. Betty Maxwell remained loyal to her husband until his death in 1991 Ghislaine, Robert and Betty Maxwell at Cannes film festival in 1987. Ghislaine Maxwell was born in 1961, in Maisons-Laffitte, France, the ninth and youngest child of Elisabeth (née Meynard), a French-born scholar, and Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor.Her father was from a Jewish family and her mother was of Huguenot descent. He ended up like a John le Carré villain embracing spooks across the world. Loyal wife of disgraced publisher Robert Maxwell who was unaware of his multi-million-pound fraud dies in France aged 92. Elisabeth Maxwell, widow of the former Daily Mirror owner, Robert Maxwell, died on Wednesday (7 August) in the Dordogne, France. Even his death is an enigma.