Lawyers for paedophile ring trafficker and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have claimed she was on IRA hit list.
Maxwell, 60, daughter of deceased press baron Robert Maxwell, was convicted late last year of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her paedophile ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
Her lawyers claim she went into hiding from July 2019, when Epstein was arrested, until she was caught in 2020, because she'd received death threats.
In legal documents prepared for her sentencing next week her team claim, that this was not her first death threat.
They told New York Judge Alison Nathan that Ghislaine Maxwell was on an IRA hit list when her father was an MP in the late 1960s.
Maxwell, 60, daughter of deceased press baron Robert Maxwell, was convicted late last year of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her paedophile ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein (pictured together the socialite and pedophile)
Lawyers told the court: 'Decades earlier, when Ms Maxwell was just a child and her father was a Member of Parliament, UK authorities found a hit list of potential targets in a safehouse used by the Irish Republican Army.
Her team, according to the Belfast Telegraph, added: 'Ms Maxwell's name was first on the list.'
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