GHISLAINE Maxwell was last month found guilty of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The British socialite, 60, now faces the likelihood of years behind bars after being found guilty of five of six counts she faced.
But away from the court room drama Maxwell is also at the center of a conspiracy theory which links her to one of the most power accounts on Reddit.
Online sleuths have pointed to a number of clues they say show Ghislaine was behind the wildly popular u/maxwellhill handle.
The most telling, they say, is that the once active account has not posted since her July 2 arrest last year.
u/maxwellhill had been one of the most active on Reddit, posting most days for the previous 14 years.
It covered the biggest news stories across the world and acted as a moderator for the articles shared with the millions of users who visit the site daily.
It also received a million karma points – also known as up votes – and became one of the most top rated on the site.
But since June 30 the page has not shared any new content.
There is no definitive proof Maxwell is behind the account but online sleuths also point to the fact the page appears to have never shared stories about Jeffrey Epstein.
That’s despite it covering huge news events.
Others have pointed to the fact the account was last inactive in 2013 – the time of Maxwell’s mother’s death.
The user also claims to have been born in December – like Ghislaine – and uses English, American and French spellings.
Maxwell has lived in America and the UK and was born in France.
Her family home growing up was Headington Hill Hall – another link to the Reddit user name, sleuths have claimed.
And Ghislaine has used pseudonyms before with one of bank accounts under as GMax, they note.
The theory had gone under the radar in recent months.
But it reemerged on TikTok this week, with one user re-sharing the theories.
She said: “It still holds up.”
Others said on Reddit last year: “Not confirmed, but research suggests that /u/maxwellhill, the Reddit account with the 8th most link karma of all time, powermod of frontpage subs like r/worldnews and r/technology, first account to reach a million Karma, is/was operated by Ghislaine Maxwell.”
That post was liked and shared thousands of times.
Tech website Gizmodo wrote a profile on u/maxwellhill in 2011 calling it the page “the Most Successful Man/Woman/??? on Reddit.”
They wrote then: “Maxwellhill isn’t just trying to be mysterious; he/she is trying to be successful. Maxwellhill’s ascent to power was deliberate and skillful.
“The million karma points were a goal, not an accident.”
Maxwell’s defense lawyers had insisted she was a victim of a vindictive prosecution devised to deliver justice to women deprived of their main villain when Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.
Her brother, Kevin Maxwell, said the family believes she will be vindicated on appeal.
“We firmly believe in our sister’s innocence,” he said in a written statement.
Virginia Roberts claims she was introduced to Prince Andrew by disgraced paedophile financier Epstein, and that the royal had sex with her when she was 17 – an allegation the Duke has strongly denied.
Andrew has now been stripped of his military titles and royal patronages and he now faces a court battle with Roberts as a private citizen.
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