An Aug. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims a former socialite serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse children has family ties to a major education company.
“Ghislaine Maxwell (sic) father owns McGraw Hills textbooks,” reads the post. “The textbooks used in all schools.”
It was shared almost 600 times in one day.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, has been dead for more than 20 years. He entered into a joint venture with McGraw Hill in 1989, but the company became sole owner of that venture in 1993, and it told USA TODAY it has no current ties to the Maxwell family.
A spokesperson for McGraw Hill, an American publishing company best known for its educational textbooks, told USA TODAY the claim is false.
“The Maxwell family has no current association with McGraw Hill,” spokesperson Tyler Reed said.
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