THE LIVING LIBRARY / PEOPLE ARCHIVE
The People Archive · Exhibit 002 · Public first edition

Ghislaine
Maxwell.

From the Maxwell family and publishing empire to the Epstein prosecutions, the women who testified, and the recordings now under independent review.

12 Documentary rooms
11 Dated case events
9 Case relationships
2026 August court decision included
Chapter selector

Twelve rooms. Different kinds of evidence.

Use the index to move between the criminal case, family origins and the independent reporting archive. Every room links to a source.

Images and their origins

Faces, archives and context.

Ghislaine Maxwell in federal custody, source attributed to the Bureau of Prisons
Ghislaine Maxwell custody photograph · Federal Bureau of Prisons, US-government public-domain attribution · Original image and rights
Robert Maxwell in a 1989 archival photograph
Robert Maxwell, 1989 · Dutch National Archives/ANefo, CC0 public-domain attribution · Original image and rights

These are genuine archival photos with source links, not generated representations of witnesses or alleged events. Original photograph sources and their reuse terms are linked directly.

The family and enterprises · Full Atlas 22 source edition

Sixty-eight moments. Fifty-one traceable relationships.

The historical family and enterprise trail is imported from Maxwell Origins Atlas 22. These entries concern different people, corporations, pension funds, inquiries and decades. They are not accusations against Ghislaine Maxwell based on her surname.

68Source-dated entries
45Named entities
51Historical relationships

Browse the historical chronology

Explore the 45 entities and 51 links

Choose an entity and inspect the dated links attributed to that entity. Every original link can be opened independently; the historical graph is kept separate from the criminal-case graph above.

Original investigation: Atlas 22. Historical inspector findings are separate from Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal judgment. Unobtained underlying papers are explicitly identified in the individual source limits.

Explore historical sequence

Dates, not assumptions.

Move between court decisions, family history, and reporting dates. The Maxwell §2255 motion was pending in May–June 2026, but denied on August 25, 2026.

Evidence-linked relationship map

Connections Atlas.

Select an entity or the relationship list to inspect exactly what each link means. A public statement on a recording is not a judicial finding.

Source-specific relationships · Historical enterprise

Explore the family and company network.

The original Maxwell Origins Atlas contains 45 distinct people, companies, groups, funds and trusts linked by 51 dated source references. This map shows historical roles and transactions. It is separate from the court findings in the criminal case above.

Historical Maxwell enterprise relationship graphEach line represents a cited historical relationship with a year range. An accessible list is below the map.
Two distinct collections

Case rulings establish Maxwell's criminal judgment. The historic graph shows the earlier family and enterprise histories. Maxwell's Black Book is an independent published reporting archive. Selecting an entity in one collection does not convert its links into evidence in another.

Open the full historical source exhibit ↗

Read the originals

Source room.

Court rulings and original filings are distinguished from independent reporting and unverified source claims.

A separate investigative collection

Maxwell’s Black Book.

THE MACHINE and the public audio library are works of independent reporting. They are connected here by topic and source, not treated as rulings about named third parties. No private witness recordings or confidential contact information are republished by this exhibit.

Court-status update (October 13, 2026): Maxwell’s §2255 petition was denied August 25. On September 23 she sought to alter or amend that denial under Rule 59(e). The judge required a victim-privacy review by October 14 before docketing her motion; the September order did not decide it. References in the Black Book to a “live” petition describe earlier reporting dates. Read the September 23 court order ↗
Published recordings · Source-linked media index

Browse the independent media index

An index of 86 files published by an independent reporting site. The museum does not host or embed these recordings. Visitors may choose to open an individual file at the original publisher and consult that website for its own titles and context. Those descriptions are not court findings or verified testimony; several files may be alternate editions of the same session.

View the original audio and video index ↗ · For court findings, use the federal case and appeals section above. Original recording provenance, clipping history, speaker attribution and transcript accuracy require separate checks before quotations are incorporated into the museum narrative.