1 00:00:05,172 --> 00:00:15,172 ♪♪ 2 00:00:15,172 --> 00:00:16,482 ♪♪ 3 00:00:16,482 --> 00:00:19,482 -All right. Good morning, everybody! 4 00:00:19,482 --> 00:00:23,724 And welcome back to "True Crime Loser." 5 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:24,862 I hope you're doing well. 6 00:00:24,862 --> 00:00:27,517 ♪♪ 7 00:00:27,517 --> 00:00:29,724 So I have an exciting new update 8 00:00:29,724 --> 00:00:33,413 regarding the Ghislaine Maxwell case. 9 00:00:33,413 --> 00:00:35,310 Her trial is right around the corner, 10 00:00:35,310 --> 00:00:37,793 and it's time to find out 11 00:00:37,793 --> 00:00:40,034 what's going to happen to old Ghislaine. 12 00:00:40,034 --> 00:00:45,413 ♪♪ 13 00:00:45,413 --> 00:00:49,724 This is a sinister-looking place. 14 00:00:49,724 --> 00:00:52,965 This is where she's been, 15 00:00:52,965 --> 00:00:55,206 out in Brooklyn, for the past year. 16 00:00:55,206 --> 00:00:57,206 [ Indistinct shouting in distance ] 17 00:00:57,206 --> 00:00:58,896 Listen to it. You can hear it -- 18 00:00:58,896 --> 00:01:04,103 people screaming and clapping and moving around. 19 00:01:04,103 --> 00:01:07,275 Not where you want to be. 20 00:01:07,275 --> 00:01:11,827 Ghislaine went from private jets all over the world, 21 00:01:11,827 --> 00:01:17,931 private islands hanging out with royalty, academics, scientists. 22 00:01:17,931 --> 00:01:21,827 Now she probably feels very alone. 23 00:01:21,827 --> 00:01:24,931 ♪♪ 24 00:01:24,931 --> 00:01:29,517 50 years this family has been in a scandal. 25 00:01:29,517 --> 00:01:32,344 First, the dad, then it's the brothers, 26 00:01:32,344 --> 00:01:34,275 and now here we are, 27 00:01:34,275 --> 00:01:36,793 Ghislaine is on the chopping block. 28 00:01:36,793 --> 00:01:38,413 Stay tuned. 29 00:01:38,413 --> 00:01:46,827 ♪♪ 30 00:01:55,827 --> 00:02:03,000 [ Dog barking in distance ] 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,482 [ Tape fast-forwarding ] 32 00:02:08,482 --> 00:02:11,448 -Like I said, it's always sad when you lose a parent, 33 00:02:11,448 --> 00:02:12,620 but you have to go on. 34 00:02:12,620 --> 00:02:15,206 [ Tape stops, fast-forwarding ] 35 00:02:15,206 --> 00:02:17,862 ♪♪ 36 00:02:17,862 --> 00:02:19,206 [ Tape stops, clicks ] 37 00:02:19,206 --> 00:02:22,241 -Married -- Happily married for 42 years. 38 00:02:22,241 --> 00:02:23,379 [ Tape fast-forwarding ] 39 00:02:23,379 --> 00:02:25,172 We have seven children. 40 00:02:25,172 --> 00:02:27,137 We have seven children. 41 00:02:27,137 --> 00:02:30,206 We're very proud of them. 42 00:02:30,206 --> 00:02:32,586 We worship them. We're very proud. 43 00:02:32,586 --> 00:02:34,965 ♪♪ 44 00:02:34,965 --> 00:02:36,551 [ Tape fast-forwarding ] 45 00:02:36,551 --> 00:02:39,724 I still have ambitions which I intend, 46 00:02:39,724 --> 00:02:41,344 with God's help -- [ Tape rewinds ] 47 00:02:41,344 --> 00:02:43,448 ...with God's help, to fulfill. 48 00:02:44,862 --> 00:02:52,310 [ Machinery whirring ] 49 00:02:52,310 --> 00:02:53,655 [ Reel clicking ] 50 00:02:53,655 --> 00:03:03,655 ♪♪ 51 00:03:03,655 --> 00:03:13,655 ♪♪ 52 00:03:13,655 --> 00:03:17,137 ♪♪ 53 00:03:17,137 --> 00:03:22,482 -It's nearly 6:00 on Sunday, the 3rd of November, 1991. 54 00:03:22,482 --> 00:03:26,000 And this is the last known image of Robert Maxwell -- 55 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,931 alive. 56 00:03:28,931 --> 00:03:32,413 ♪♪ 57 00:03:32,413 --> 00:03:35,310 He's on the yacht named after his daughter, 58 00:03:35,310 --> 00:03:37,448 the Lady Ghislaine. 59 00:03:37,448 --> 00:03:40,965 ♪♪ 60 00:03:40,965 --> 00:03:43,413 Sailing off the Canary Islands, 61 00:03:43,413 --> 00:03:45,862 he's filmed relaxing by his staff. 62 00:03:45,862 --> 00:03:48,482 ♪♪ 63 00:03:48,482 --> 00:03:53,689 But across his vast media empire, the mood is different. 64 00:03:53,689 --> 00:03:55,931 [ Line ringing ] 65 00:03:55,931 --> 00:03:59,965 Something is worrying his senior executives, 66 00:03:59,965 --> 00:04:01,310 which Maxwell knows... 67 00:04:01,310 --> 00:04:02,689 [ Tape recorder clicks ] 68 00:04:02,689 --> 00:04:05,482 ...because he's secretly bugging their phones. 69 00:04:05,482 --> 00:04:07,551 [ Line ringing ] 70 00:04:07,551 --> 00:04:09,379 [ Line clicks ] 71 00:04:17,862 --> 00:04:19,551 ♪♪ 72 00:04:19,551 --> 00:04:22,862 -These recordings have never been made public. 73 00:04:22,862 --> 00:04:26,034 They've been revoiced to protect identities. 74 00:04:26,034 --> 00:04:28,827 [ Line ringing, clicks ] 75 00:04:54,793 --> 00:04:57,517 ♪♪ 76 00:04:57,517 --> 00:05:01,413 -What happens to Robert Maxwell over the next 48 hours 77 00:05:01,413 --> 00:05:05,275 send shock waves around the world 78 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:10,620 And changes the destiny of his family forever. 79 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:14,586 ♪♪ 80 00:05:24,448 --> 00:05:26,413 -I mean, what drives you on? Why did you do this? 81 00:05:26,413 --> 00:05:28,413 [ Door opens ] Sorry. 82 00:05:28,413 --> 00:05:31,379 -Jesus. No, that's unwelcome visitor. 83 00:05:31,379 --> 00:05:32,551 Fuck off. 84 00:05:32,551 --> 00:05:37,310 ♪♪ 85 00:05:37,310 --> 00:05:39,103 -In the early hours of this morning, 86 00:05:39,103 --> 00:05:41,137 a victorious Robert Maxwell emerged 87 00:05:41,137 --> 00:05:43,689 from Reed International's London headquarters 88 00:05:43,689 --> 00:05:46,620 after clinching the multimillion pound takeover deal. 89 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:51,413 ♪♪ 90 00:05:51,413 --> 00:05:53,689 At last, he'd achieved his lifelong ambition 91 00:05:53,689 --> 00:05:56,793 to own a Fleet Street newspaper, and he went straight 92 00:05:56,793 --> 00:06:01,103 to the Mirroroffices to claim his prize. 93 00:06:01,103 --> 00:06:03,896 -First thing that happens is, he calls all the executives 94 00:06:03,896 --> 00:06:07,655 into the main executive restaurant at The Mirror, 95 00:06:07,655 --> 00:06:11,379 saying, "I am your saviour. I'm a wonderful person." 96 00:06:11,379 --> 00:06:13,517 He promised everything. 97 00:06:13,517 --> 00:06:15,034 But that morning that Maxwell arrived, 98 00:06:15,034 --> 00:06:16,517 we had none of us any idea 99 00:06:16,517 --> 00:06:19,206 the way the whole thing was going to be shaken up. 100 00:06:19,206 --> 00:06:20,827 -Lean this way. -Thank you. 101 00:06:20,827 --> 00:06:24,172 [ Camera shutter clicks ] 102 00:06:24,172 --> 00:06:25,551 -I keep on repeating -- 103 00:06:25,551 --> 00:06:28,241 I'll say it for the last time. 104 00:06:28,241 --> 00:06:31,379 I'm not on some ego trip. 105 00:06:31,379 --> 00:06:33,551 -Could you look this way? -[ Laughs ] 106 00:06:33,551 --> 00:06:37,310 -To be honest, I'd never met a man with a bigger ego. 107 00:06:37,310 --> 00:06:39,137 But who could blame him? 108 00:06:39,137 --> 00:06:42,793 A self-made millionaire, a brilliant businessman, 109 00:06:42,793 --> 00:06:45,862 a former member of Parliament. 110 00:06:45,862 --> 00:06:48,137 And to top it all, a war hero. 111 00:06:48,137 --> 00:06:54,448 ♪♪ 112 00:06:54,448 --> 00:07:00,000 If he moved into a room, the crowds parted like the sea. 113 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,413 He was extraordinary. 114 00:07:01,413 --> 00:07:04,827 I mean, you would be on your toes all the time, 115 00:07:04,827 --> 00:07:06,482 wondering what was going to come next 116 00:07:06,482 --> 00:07:09,103 and from what direction it was going to come to. 117 00:07:09,103 --> 00:07:13,206 ♪♪ 118 00:07:13,206 --> 00:07:16,379 -Again, the subtitle is missing. 119 00:07:16,379 --> 00:07:18,689 -It's been mislaid, I'm told. 120 00:07:18,689 --> 00:07:21,448 -Bang bang. -I promise it, sir. 121 00:07:26,344 --> 00:07:30,068 -Up to now, sales have been pretty dismal. 122 00:07:30,068 --> 00:07:35,344 And he had his sights set on our greatest rival. 123 00:07:35,344 --> 00:07:37,517 -[ Whistles ] 124 00:07:37,517 --> 00:07:41,310 Could you come a little bit closer, please? 125 00:07:41,310 --> 00:07:45,758 I am committed to getting The Mirroron top of The Sun. 126 00:07:45,758 --> 00:07:50,724 I have set myself a target of two years to achieve the goal. 127 00:07:50,724 --> 00:07:55,206 [ Applause ] 128 00:07:55,206 --> 00:07:57,413 -We were all right behind him. We wanted to -- 129 00:07:57,413 --> 00:08:00,310 We wanted to win as much as he did, obviously. 130 00:08:00,310 --> 00:08:03,172 And there was a great deal of enthusiasm for things 131 00:08:03,172 --> 00:08:04,862 that he wanted to do. 132 00:08:04,862 --> 00:08:09,655 ♪♪ 133 00:08:09,655 --> 00:08:13,206 The Sunwas the biggest selling tabloid. 134 00:08:15,620 --> 00:08:18,206 It was owned by Rupert Murdoch, 135 00:08:18,206 --> 00:08:22,310 and Maxwell and Murdoch were sworn enemies. 136 00:08:22,310 --> 00:08:24,896 -Fleet Street is caught up in its first all-out, 137 00:08:24,896 --> 00:08:28,413 no-holds-barred circulation battle since the 1970s. 138 00:08:28,413 --> 00:08:32,000 The proprietors of The Sun and Daily Mirrorare in sudden 139 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,448 and fierce competition for readers. 140 00:08:34,448 --> 00:08:39,793 ♪♪ 141 00:08:39,793 --> 00:08:41,586 -I don't know that I relish war, 142 00:08:41,586 --> 00:08:44,827 but the public likes to see these fights, 143 00:08:44,827 --> 00:08:47,448 and let's see how it ends. 144 00:08:47,448 --> 00:08:49,827 ♪♪ 145 00:08:49,827 --> 00:08:52,413 I intend to beat Mr. Murdoch fair and square 146 00:08:52,413 --> 00:08:56,034 in the market-place. 147 00:08:56,034 --> 00:08:57,724 -I mean, yesterday, 148 00:08:57,724 --> 00:08:59,620 Mr. Maxwell called me a mouth-eating kangaroo. 149 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:01,448 Well, uh... [ Laughter ] 150 00:09:01,448 --> 00:09:03,137 Never got quite to that stage. 151 00:09:03,137 --> 00:09:07,862 {\an8}♪♪ 152 00:09:07,862 --> 00:09:11,413 {\an8}-He could see how it could be a big commercial success. 153 00:09:11,413 --> 00:09:13,689 {\an8}And he did make it a big commercial success, 154 00:09:13,689 --> 00:09:16,241 and it was making a lot of money for him. 155 00:09:16,241 --> 00:09:21,310 And his way of doing things was very different. 156 00:09:21,310 --> 00:09:23,310 -Everybody who works in circulation 157 00:09:23,310 --> 00:09:26,310 will have it as his or her duty -- 158 00:09:26,310 --> 00:09:28,482 Now, I'm astonished to see no woman at all, 159 00:09:28,482 --> 00:09:30,689 by the way. Is that so? 160 00:09:30,689 --> 00:09:32,379 -Yes, that is so, at this branch. 161 00:09:32,379 --> 00:09:35,137 -Well, I do promise you that I will want to see women 162 00:09:35,137 --> 00:09:37,379 recruited into this profession. 163 00:09:37,379 --> 00:09:39,275 Why are there no women in this? 164 00:09:39,275 --> 00:09:40,931 -Well, I think one of the basic problems is 165 00:09:40,931 --> 00:09:43,586 that the number of occasions when a chap has to get out 166 00:09:43,586 --> 00:09:45,896 early in the morning and lug bundles of papers about 167 00:09:45,896 --> 00:09:48,379 to make good shortages, and it's a matter 168 00:09:48,379 --> 00:09:51,655 of physical strength, more than anything else. And -- 169 00:09:51,655 --> 00:09:54,275 -Many women have been kept out of interesting jobs 170 00:09:54,275 --> 00:09:57,448 on this notion, that they can't lift a bundle. 171 00:09:57,448 --> 00:10:02,620 When did you last lift large quantities of bundles? 172 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:03,724 -[ Clears throat ] 173 00:10:03,724 --> 00:10:05,413 -Before I went to The Sunday Mirror, 174 00:10:05,413 --> 00:10:07,103 I'd worked for Rupert Murdoch, 175 00:10:07,103 --> 00:10:10,379 and he used to ask me what it was like to work for Rupert. 176 00:10:10,379 --> 00:10:17,275 And his whole life was a competition with Rupert. 177 00:10:17,275 --> 00:10:21,310 -It's tiring and tough on the toil to the top. 178 00:10:21,310 --> 00:10:24,034 But some women have already climbed aboard 179 00:10:24,034 --> 00:10:27,965 the high-speed elevator to the executive floor. 180 00:10:27,965 --> 00:10:30,827 {\an8}Eve Pollard took command of The Sunday Mirror, 181 00:10:30,827 --> 00:10:35,379 {\an8}and she's got a masterful way with a meeting full of men. 182 00:10:35,379 --> 00:10:38,448 -We're waiting for Tony Frost. 183 00:10:38,448 --> 00:10:39,310 Thanks. 184 00:10:39,310 --> 00:10:41,448 [ Telephone clicks ] 185 00:10:41,448 --> 00:10:43,620 -You want to clear the door? -Yeah. 186 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:45,137 ♪♪ 187 00:10:45,137 --> 00:10:49,344 It was certainly a brave decision to hire a woman. 188 00:10:49,344 --> 00:10:52,103 It was my first newspaper editorship, 189 00:10:52,103 --> 00:10:54,172 and editing the newspaper 190 00:10:54,172 --> 00:10:57,103 is about the most fun you can have. 191 00:10:57,103 --> 00:11:00,206 And he did not make my life difficult. 192 00:11:00,206 --> 00:11:02,241 I think, being a woman, I got away with 193 00:11:02,241 --> 00:11:03,758 slightly more than the men did 194 00:11:03,758 --> 00:11:07,103 because it wasn't a challenge to his masculinity. 195 00:11:07,103 --> 00:11:11,379 ♪♪ 196 00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:14,379 It was his whole dream about being a newspaper publisher. 197 00:11:14,379 --> 00:11:17,896 There was the image, you know, Rolls-Royces everywhere, 198 00:11:17,896 --> 00:11:23,068 champagne at receptions, big events that he would have. 199 00:11:23,068 --> 00:11:27,517 And he liked the part of king, Bob. 200 00:11:27,517 --> 00:11:28,758 But of course, he was clever. 201 00:11:28,758 --> 00:11:30,517 I mean, there's no doubt about it. 202 00:11:30,517 --> 00:11:33,482 And of course, he was a crook, but I didn't know that then. 203 00:11:33,482 --> 00:11:37,655 I mean, he was quite smart. He was interested in politics. 204 00:11:37,655 --> 00:11:42,689 And he lived in Headington Hall, this great house in Oxford. 205 00:11:42,689 --> 00:11:45,827 And it was a beautiful big old house. 206 00:11:45,827 --> 00:11:47,344 Apparently, it belonged to the Council, 207 00:11:47,344 --> 00:11:48,758 and he leased it. 208 00:11:48,758 --> 00:11:50,793 never occurred to me to think that it was owned 209 00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:53,241 by Oxford Town Council 210 00:11:53,241 --> 00:11:56,137 and that he was just paying rental on it. 211 00:11:56,137 --> 00:11:57,655 I just thought, "Well, obviously 212 00:11:57,655 --> 00:11:59,896 done terribly well with the papers. 213 00:11:59,896 --> 00:12:08,862 ♪♪ 214 00:12:08,862 --> 00:12:14,482 It was sort of a mini Hollywood through Oxford. 215 00:12:14,482 --> 00:12:16,310 It was not like a British family. 216 00:12:16,310 --> 00:12:18,724 I mean, aristocrats of those times 217 00:12:18,724 --> 00:12:20,206 lived in sort of houses, 218 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:25,068 slightly falling apart with torn sofas and loads of dogs. 219 00:12:25,068 --> 00:12:27,931 That was not the life of Bob Maxwell. 220 00:12:27,931 --> 00:12:32,551 -Hey! -♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 221 00:12:32,551 --> 00:12:35,034 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 222 00:12:35,034 --> 00:12:39,068 -When you go to Headington Hall, at the root of it, 223 00:12:39,068 --> 00:12:42,965 there is Bob's wife, Betty, and there are the children. 224 00:12:42,965 --> 00:12:46,655 And they were there. I mean, Bob often, you know, 225 00:12:46,655 --> 00:12:48,344 barely went home on the weekend 226 00:12:48,344 --> 00:12:51,413 or went home for, you know, an hour or two 227 00:12:51,413 --> 00:12:53,448 or half a day, and then would come back 228 00:12:53,448 --> 00:12:55,482 to The Sunday Mirror on a Saturday night. 229 00:12:55,482 --> 00:12:59,344 You think he'd stay in that lovely house with his children. 230 00:12:59,344 --> 00:13:02,241 And that would have been quite hard sometimes. 231 00:13:02,241 --> 00:13:06,068 I mean, you want your father to be this lovely, cosy father, 232 00:13:06,068 --> 00:13:08,344 to love you unconditionally. 233 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:13,827 And also, he'd had a family where, you know, 234 00:13:13,827 --> 00:13:15,551 children had died. 235 00:13:15,551 --> 00:13:17,620 One child was in a car crash. 236 00:13:17,620 --> 00:13:21,758 I mean, they'd had a lot of tragedy in that family, 237 00:13:21,758 --> 00:13:23,068 and yet they kept going, 238 00:13:23,068 --> 00:13:26,172 and the children all were well-educated, 239 00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:30,379 obviously went to school and did well because Betty helped them. 240 00:13:30,379 --> 00:13:34,000 And Bob, obviously, sort of rather insisted on it. 241 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,275 ♪♪ 242 00:13:40,275 --> 00:13:42,482 I mean, I'm sure he loved his children. 243 00:13:42,482 --> 00:13:48,000 I mean, I saw him be very fond of Ian and Kevin and Ghislaine. 244 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,724 ♪♪ 245 00:13:52,724 --> 00:13:55,896 But it's the sort of love that can grab you by the throat 246 00:13:55,896 --> 00:13:57,551 as well as by the heart. 247 00:13:57,551 --> 00:14:01,448 And you never knew which way it would go. 248 00:14:01,448 --> 00:14:11,448 ♪♪ 249 00:14:11,448 --> 00:14:21,448 ♪♪ 250 00:14:21,448 --> 00:14:24,137 ♪♪ 251 00:14:24,137 --> 00:14:33,586 [ Line ringing ] 252 00:14:33,586 --> 00:14:35,206 [ Line picks up ] 253 00:14:50,344 --> 00:14:52,172 [ Line clicks ] 254 00:14:52,172 --> 00:14:59,344 ♪♪ 255 00:14:59,344 --> 00:15:03,206 -It's three days since Maxwell left London 256 00:15:03,206 --> 00:15:06,620 and still his executives can't reach him. 257 00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:08,931 [ Line ringing ] 258 00:15:08,931 --> 00:15:11,206 [ Line clicks ] 259 00:15:22,551 --> 00:15:25,000 ♪♪ 260 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,655 [ Tape recorder clicks ] 261 00:15:26,655 --> 00:15:35,551 ♪♪ 262 00:15:35,551 --> 00:15:37,551 -At around 11:00, 263 00:15:37,551 --> 00:15:41,517 the Lady Ghislaineis 10 miles off the coast of Tenerife. 264 00:15:41,517 --> 00:15:44,793 ♪♪ 265 00:15:44,793 --> 00:15:47,931 The sea is flat calm. 266 00:15:47,931 --> 00:15:53,275 ♪♪ 267 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:55,137 In the middle of the night, 268 00:15:55,137 --> 00:15:58,517 Maxwell calls the crew, complaining about the heat. 269 00:15:58,517 --> 00:16:08,517 ♪♪ 270 00:16:08,517 --> 00:16:12,034 ♪♪ 271 00:16:12,034 --> 00:16:15,896 The next morning, staff go to wake him up. 272 00:16:15,896 --> 00:16:19,482 ♪♪ 273 00:16:19,482 --> 00:16:24,448 But the cabin is empty, and the captain is concerned. 274 00:16:24,448 --> 00:16:29,103 ♪♪ 275 00:16:39,103 --> 00:16:49,103 ♪♪ 276 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:50,137 ♪♪ 277 00:16:50,137 --> 00:16:54,241 -Robert Maxwell has disappeared. 278 00:16:54,241 --> 00:17:03,068 ♪♪ 279 00:17:10,448 --> 00:17:20,448 ♪♪ 280 00:17:20,448 --> 00:17:29,620 ♪♪ 281 00:17:29,620 --> 00:17:33,275 -Global communications and the information industry 282 00:17:33,275 --> 00:17:35,482 is the world's most rapidly growing industry 283 00:17:35,482 --> 00:17:40,068 because it supplies a universal need -- information. 284 00:17:40,068 --> 00:17:41,310 The company is 285 00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:44,655 Maxwell Communication Corporation. 286 00:17:44,655 --> 00:17:46,655 ♪♪ 287 00:17:46,655 --> 00:17:51,482 -Bizarrely, I was roped in from the Civil Service on secondment. 288 00:17:51,482 --> 00:17:53,310 I had a call from my personnel department, 289 00:17:53,310 --> 00:17:54,586 and the department said, 290 00:17:54,586 --> 00:17:56,379 "Would you like to work for old Maxwell?" 291 00:17:56,379 --> 00:17:58,862 And I couldn't believe -- "Rob? 292 00:17:58,862 --> 00:18:04,310 Do you mean Robert Maxwell, the megalomania tycoon? 293 00:18:04,310 --> 00:18:05,448 There must be some other." 294 00:18:05,448 --> 00:18:07,275 "No, no, yeah, that one." "Oh." 295 00:18:07,275 --> 00:18:11,827 -One name has become synonymous with this fast-paced industry. 296 00:18:11,827 --> 00:18:14,344 One man and the company he founded 297 00:18:14,344 --> 00:18:15,827 has done more than any other 298 00:18:15,827 --> 00:18:18,724 to harness the communications revolution. 299 00:18:18,724 --> 00:18:20,655 The man is Robert Maxwell. 300 00:18:20,655 --> 00:18:24,551 ♪♪ 301 00:18:24,551 --> 00:18:27,275 -When I arrived, Maxwell was trying to build 302 00:18:27,275 --> 00:18:30,241 one of the world's biggest media empires. 303 00:18:30,241 --> 00:18:35,241 But despite his success, he was so obsessed with Rupert Murdoch. 304 00:18:35,241 --> 00:18:37,551 ♪♪ 305 00:18:37,551 --> 00:18:40,965 Murdoch was running the most successful media empire 306 00:18:40,965 --> 00:18:42,137 in the world at the time -- 307 00:18:42,137 --> 00:18:45,310 Sky TV, newspapers across the globe. 308 00:18:45,310 --> 00:18:48,517 -Look at Mr. Murdoch's achievements and look at mine. 309 00:18:48,517 --> 00:18:52,172 Both of us are candidates for one of the top positions 310 00:18:52,172 --> 00:18:54,793 as a media company of the world, 311 00:18:54,793 --> 00:18:56,620 one of the 10 slots. 312 00:18:56,620 --> 00:18:59,793 He's doing very well. I'm not doing too badly. 313 00:18:59,793 --> 00:19:01,758 The difference between him and me is 314 00:19:01,758 --> 00:19:05,551 that he owes the banks $6 billion. 315 00:19:05,551 --> 00:19:08,068 The banks owe me $1 billion. 316 00:19:08,068 --> 00:19:09,862 People prefer the Maxwell version 317 00:19:09,862 --> 00:19:11,517 to that of Murdoch. 318 00:19:11,517 --> 00:19:15,896 ♪♪ 319 00:19:15,896 --> 00:19:19,482 -He always saw Murdoch as the sort of alter ego, almost. 320 00:19:19,482 --> 00:19:21,206 I mean, very, very different people. 321 00:19:21,206 --> 00:19:26,724 But Murdoch was the success he wanted to have. 322 00:19:26,724 --> 00:19:30,137 ♪♪ 323 00:19:30,137 --> 00:19:31,655 -Competing with Murdoch, 324 00:19:31,655 --> 00:19:35,000 Maxwell started buying up dozens of companies 325 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,068 in all sorts of different fields. 326 00:19:37,068 --> 00:19:41,793 [ Indistinct conversations ] 327 00:19:41,793 --> 00:19:45,965 ♪♪ 328 00:19:45,965 --> 00:19:47,517 -[ Indistinct shouting ] 329 00:19:47,517 --> 00:19:51,931 ♪♪ 330 00:19:51,931 --> 00:19:54,103 -Get five and a half! 331 00:19:54,103 --> 00:19:58,241 ♪♪ 332 00:19:58,241 --> 00:20:01,689 -Cash! 88, 90, cash! 333 00:20:01,689 --> 00:20:07,068 ♪♪ 334 00:20:07,068 --> 00:20:12,482 ♪♪ 335 00:20:12,482 --> 00:20:14,137 -And I believe you're -- you're interested 336 00:20:14,137 --> 00:20:17,482 in purchasing various concerns in Bulgaria at the moment. 337 00:20:17,482 --> 00:20:19,655 -That's right. -I have just announced 338 00:20:19,655 --> 00:20:22,275 in Berlin today that I have bought 339 00:20:22,275 --> 00:20:24,034 a major publishing company. 340 00:20:24,034 --> 00:20:28,827 I now will help run two newspapers, 341 00:20:28,827 --> 00:20:30,413 a daily newspaper in Berlin, 342 00:20:30,413 --> 00:20:33,241 an evening paper, and a woman's magazine -- 343 00:20:33,241 --> 00:20:34,620 a real empire. 344 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:37,103 We already have one in Bulgaria and Hungary. 345 00:20:37,103 --> 00:20:39,827 Hope to open a newspaper in the Soviet Union. 346 00:20:39,827 --> 00:20:41,172 We are on the move. 347 00:20:41,172 --> 00:20:42,655 -It must be quite a shopping list you go out 348 00:20:42,655 --> 00:20:44,275 with in the morning when you leave home, isn't it? 349 00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:46,620 "Buy three newspapers and a woman's magazine." 350 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,379 [ Laughter ] 351 00:20:52,137 --> 00:20:54,965 -So, Maxwell had been buying all of these companies, 352 00:20:54,965 --> 00:20:56,310 trying to compete with Murdoch, 353 00:20:56,310 --> 00:20:59,620 but what shocked me was the absolute chaos 354 00:20:59,620 --> 00:21:01,517 of his own office. 355 00:21:01,517 --> 00:21:03,896 Complete disorganisation. There was no organisation. 356 00:21:03,896 --> 00:21:05,068 It was anarchy. 357 00:21:05,068 --> 00:21:06,241 -What are we now talking about? 358 00:21:06,241 --> 00:21:07,413 This is the village. -This is -- 359 00:21:07,413 --> 00:21:08,482 No, this is a -- this is a piece of paper 360 00:21:08,482 --> 00:21:09,724 which I'm having written, 361 00:21:09,724 --> 00:21:12,206 by the Public Affairs Department, 362 00:21:12,206 --> 00:21:14,689 which is the history of the company. 363 00:21:14,689 --> 00:21:18,482 -It wasn't a normal corporation with layers of delegation 364 00:21:18,482 --> 00:21:20,586 and boards of management. They were on paper. 365 00:21:20,586 --> 00:21:22,413 But as far as he was concerned, 366 00:21:22,413 --> 00:21:25,482 he didn't want people making decisions unless he made them. 367 00:21:25,482 --> 00:21:26,724 Really, this is the biggest 368 00:21:26,724 --> 00:21:28,827 one-man business you could imagine. 369 00:21:28,827 --> 00:21:30,310 -I must see it again. -You will see it again. 370 00:21:30,310 --> 00:21:31,655 -Nothing is dealt with unless I've seen it. 371 00:21:31,655 --> 00:21:33,206 -And you're gonna see it again. -Right. 372 00:21:33,206 --> 00:21:34,586 -Well, you've agreed the heads of agreement. 373 00:21:34,586 --> 00:21:35,827 So now it's converting it into -- 374 00:21:35,827 --> 00:21:38,034 -No. You'd better show them to me again. 375 00:21:38,034 --> 00:21:40,034 What time is this meeting? -2:00. 376 00:21:40,034 --> 00:21:43,068 -Just up to instruct them. It's 3:00. 377 00:21:43,068 --> 00:21:44,448 -3:00. -You'd better get up 378 00:21:44,448 --> 00:21:47,068 on the phone and tell them so, not to try. 379 00:21:47,068 --> 00:21:49,000 Saying quite different. 380 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,551 Get up on the phone. 381 00:21:50,551 --> 00:21:53,068 -So his management team got scared of making decisions 382 00:21:53,068 --> 00:21:55,275 about anything. 383 00:21:55,275 --> 00:21:56,655 I mean, I remember one occasion, 384 00:21:56,655 --> 00:21:59,482 somebody quite senior at Mirror Group 385 00:21:59,482 --> 00:22:02,517 came to me wanting a decision on what colour 386 00:22:02,517 --> 00:22:06,241 to paint the ladies loo on the fifth floor. 387 00:22:06,241 --> 00:22:08,206 I said, "Ken, are you taking the piss?" 388 00:22:08,206 --> 00:22:09,655 He said, "No, no, no. 389 00:22:09,655 --> 00:22:11,551 I must have the publisher's decision on this matter. 390 00:22:11,551 --> 00:22:13,793 Blah, blah, blah," and I said, "Paint them yellow." 391 00:22:13,793 --> 00:22:16,379 Paint them yellow. Any problems, say I said 392 00:22:16,379 --> 00:22:17,517 paint them yellow." 393 00:22:17,517 --> 00:22:21,413 -Like if there's someone, like... 394 00:22:21,413 --> 00:22:23,517 the great Mr. Halloran there. -The great Mr. Halloran. 395 00:22:23,517 --> 00:22:25,689 Come on. Put your jacket on. 396 00:22:25,689 --> 00:22:28,275 Yes, you're in the -- you're in the frame. 397 00:22:28,275 --> 00:22:30,827 -It's going to be a two-shot now. 398 00:22:30,827 --> 00:22:32,379 -Maxwell was also obsessed 399 00:22:32,379 --> 00:22:35,172 with controlling his image and realised 400 00:22:35,172 --> 00:22:36,862 that the best way of achieving that 401 00:22:36,862 --> 00:22:39,620 was to have his own camera crew follow him around. 402 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:41,551 -Consider taking a shot. -I would -- 403 00:22:41,551 --> 00:22:43,206 I think we'll take you coming out of the front door 404 00:22:43,206 --> 00:22:46,793 of this building. -Yeah, best one. 405 00:22:46,793 --> 00:22:49,103 Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can truly say 406 00:22:49,103 --> 00:22:51,517 that we have a very exciting future. 407 00:22:51,517 --> 00:22:54,586 We are well on the way to achieving our aim 408 00:22:54,586 --> 00:22:57,310 to become one of the 10 global communication 409 00:22:57,310 --> 00:22:59,379 and information companies in the world. 410 00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:00,896 -May I stop you there? I'm sorry. 411 00:23:00,896 --> 00:23:03,551 If you say, "Well, ladies and gentlemen..." 412 00:23:03,551 --> 00:23:05,275 -Nine forty. -...it may sound 413 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:07,482 slightly inappropriate. Could I ask you to do it 414 00:23:07,482 --> 00:23:09,137 just, "We have a very excit-- 415 00:23:09,137 --> 00:23:10,448 Well, we have a very exciting future"? 416 00:23:10,448 --> 00:23:12,103 Would you mind? -Why? 417 00:23:12,103 --> 00:23:14,689 -It sounded -- If you have the "well," 418 00:23:14,689 --> 00:23:16,034 if it was the "ladies and gentlemen," 419 00:23:16,034 --> 00:23:17,586 it would sound a little bit theatrical, 420 00:23:17,586 --> 00:23:19,068 as if you're sort of on a stage, as it were. 421 00:23:19,068 --> 00:23:20,517 You see what I mean? 422 00:23:20,517 --> 00:23:23,172 If I could do it the other way, would you object? 423 00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:31,103 -Well, we have a very exciting future. 424 00:23:31,103 --> 00:23:32,344 -If you wouldn't mind, sir... -No. 425 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:33,931 -Let me ask you just to do... 426 00:23:33,931 --> 00:23:36,655 -Let's get on with it, because these lights are really... 427 00:23:36,655 --> 00:23:37,689 -Okay? 428 00:23:37,689 --> 00:23:39,448 -Well, we have a very exciting -- 429 00:23:39,448 --> 00:23:42,344 [ Clears throat, coughs ] 430 00:23:42,344 --> 00:23:44,482 Go back. -Go back to... 431 00:23:44,482 --> 00:23:45,965 -Yeah. That's it. 432 00:23:45,965 --> 00:23:48,551 -I'd like if you would do one more piece for me, 433 00:23:48,551 --> 00:23:49,896 and that was the piece earlier, from... 434 00:23:49,896 --> 00:23:51,896 [ Speaking indistinctly ] 435 00:23:51,896 --> 00:23:53,137 -No, I don't want to do it anymore. 436 00:23:53,137 --> 00:23:54,965 We'll leave it at that. I'm bushed. 437 00:23:54,965 --> 00:23:56,965 Thank you. Goodbye. 438 00:23:56,965 --> 00:23:58,655 [ Static ] 439 00:23:58,655 --> 00:24:03,655 ♪♪ 440 00:24:03,655 --> 00:24:05,551 -He didn't really trust anyone, 441 00:24:05,551 --> 00:24:08,275 so as the Empire grew, more and more 442 00:24:08,275 --> 00:24:10,482 he brought his sons, Kevin and Ian, 443 00:24:10,482 --> 00:24:13,793 into the business, the upper echelon. 444 00:24:13,793 --> 00:24:15,206 -Ian and Kevin Maxwell, 445 00:24:15,206 --> 00:24:18,000 joint managing directors of Maxwell Communications. 446 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,517 -I look forward to working with my colleagues 447 00:24:20,517 --> 00:24:22,827 and reaping the benefits of bringing together 448 00:24:22,827 --> 00:24:25,586 the excellent acquisitions made in the last year or two, 449 00:24:25,586 --> 00:24:28,310 together with the original publishing, communication, 450 00:24:28,310 --> 00:24:31,586 and information businesses of Maxwell Communication. 451 00:24:31,586 --> 00:24:34,103 -We recognise that the largest single market, 452 00:24:34,103 --> 00:24:35,586 which will be of immediate opportunity 453 00:24:35,586 --> 00:24:37,724 to our group, will be Europe. 454 00:24:37,724 --> 00:24:39,758 -Ian I knew quite well, especially in the early days 455 00:24:39,758 --> 00:24:42,931 and liked a lot. Very charming, very erudite. 456 00:24:42,931 --> 00:24:45,241 Kevin I knew much less well 457 00:24:45,241 --> 00:24:48,620 and always found rather frosty and remote. 458 00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:51,034 Ghislaine was always floating in and out of the business, 459 00:24:51,034 --> 00:24:55,448 so she would crop up from time to time in various capacities. 460 00:24:55,448 --> 00:24:58,241 Often she'd be filling in for him at receptions, 461 00:24:58,241 --> 00:24:59,482 again as his representative, 462 00:24:59,482 --> 00:25:02,103 so we were only really on nodding terms. 463 00:25:02,103 --> 00:25:05,413 ♪♪ 464 00:25:05,413 --> 00:25:08,965 -They kept saying to me when Ghislaine left Oxford, 465 00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:10,275 could I hire her. 466 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,379 And I said, "Bob, I'm running a newspaper, 467 00:25:12,379 --> 00:25:16,172 and I don't think Ghislaine wants to be a journalist." 468 00:25:16,172 --> 00:25:19,068 She was very beautiful when she was young, 469 00:25:19,068 --> 00:25:24,620 and she was clever. 470 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:29,896 And it's always said that she was his favourite child. 471 00:25:29,896 --> 00:25:32,034 -Ghislaine used to flit around the building. 472 00:25:32,034 --> 00:25:35,275 I never forget, she would sit on the corner of my desk. 473 00:25:35,275 --> 00:25:39,793 She had beautiful long legs. She was very glamourous. 474 00:25:39,793 --> 00:25:42,068 And I remember one day 475 00:25:42,068 --> 00:25:45,586 Maxwell wanted someone to work on the annual report, 476 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:49,586 and I was told to sit in his office in a cupboard. 477 00:25:49,586 --> 00:25:51,758 And it was a cupboard. The doors opened 478 00:25:51,758 --> 00:25:55,620 but had a chair and a computer, and I just sat there. 479 00:25:55,620 --> 00:25:59,206 He was at his desk, and my back was to him the whole time. 480 00:25:59,206 --> 00:26:01,517 So obviously I heard everything. 481 00:26:01,517 --> 00:26:03,862 All the phone calls -- He had many phone calls, 482 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:07,206 of course, and he never, ever put the phone to his ear. 483 00:26:07,206 --> 00:26:08,827 He's always on loudspeaker 484 00:26:08,827 --> 00:26:11,000 because he was -- just couldn't be bothered 485 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,310 to hold the phone to his ear, so you heard everything. 486 00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:17,068 -Okay, well, I'm in the study, at the moment, upstairs. 487 00:26:17,068 --> 00:26:18,931 I'll be in touch with you. -Okay. 488 00:26:18,931 --> 00:26:22,620 -But I was just there. He just forgot I was there. 489 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:26,482 Reception rang through and said, "Ghislaine, Mr. Maxwell." 490 00:26:26,482 --> 00:26:28,517 And he says, "Put her on." 491 00:26:28,517 --> 00:26:33,896 So the next thing I hear is, "Miaow." 492 00:26:33,896 --> 00:26:37,103 And he went, "Miaow, miaow." 493 00:26:37,103 --> 00:26:39,620 And she went, "Miaow." 494 00:26:39,620 --> 00:26:41,862 And he was going, "Miaow, miaow." 495 00:26:41,862 --> 00:26:45,413 And then this went on for, I don't know, about 10 "miaows." 496 00:26:45,413 --> 00:26:47,793 And then he suddenly said, "What are you doing?" 497 00:26:47,793 --> 00:26:49,241 and she said, "Nothing." 498 00:26:49,241 --> 00:26:51,551 And I thought, "Yeah, that's about right." 499 00:26:54,482 --> 00:26:56,689 He definitely had a different relationship 500 00:26:56,689 --> 00:26:59,724 with Ghislaine, I think, than he had with the others. 501 00:26:59,724 --> 00:27:09,724 ♪♪ 502 00:27:09,724 --> 00:27:19,724 ♪♪ 503 00:27:19,724 --> 00:27:21,758 ♪♪ 504 00:27:21,758 --> 00:27:26,931 -The search for Maxwell is three hours old. 505 00:27:26,931 --> 00:27:30,275 And there's still no sign of him. 506 00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:31,793 [ Line ringing ] 507 00:27:31,793 --> 00:27:36,068 In London, his inner circle of executives 508 00:27:36,068 --> 00:27:37,379 has heard he's missing. 509 00:27:37,379 --> 00:27:39,172 [ Line ringing, clicks ] 510 00:28:00,068 --> 00:28:05,896 ♪♪ 511 00:28:05,896 --> 00:28:08,551 [ Helicopter blades whirring ] 512 00:28:08,551 --> 00:28:12,000 ♪♪ 513 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,793 -With the search now involving boats and helicopters, 514 00:28:15,793 --> 00:28:17,965 news is leaking out. 515 00:28:17,965 --> 00:28:21,137 And journalists are calling the Lady Ghislaine. 516 00:28:21,137 --> 00:28:22,448 [ Line rings, clicks ] 517 00:28:34,758 --> 00:28:36,758 [ Line clicks ] 518 00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:46,103 ♪♪ 519 00:28:46,103 --> 00:28:49,689 [ Water splashing ] 520 00:28:49,689 --> 00:28:54,241 [ Line ringing, clicks ] 521 00:29:20,793 --> 00:29:27,827 ♪♪ 522 00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:44,896 ♪♪ 523 00:29:44,896 --> 00:29:50,137 ♪♪ 524 00:29:50,137 --> 00:29:54,827 -I celebrate my 65th birthday. 525 00:29:54,827 --> 00:29:57,241 We wish to make a major event. 526 00:29:57,241 --> 00:30:01,310 ♪♪ 527 00:30:01,310 --> 00:30:04,137 Inviting 5,000 people. 528 00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:07,482 One dinner -- three dinners, two lunches. 529 00:30:07,482 --> 00:30:11,758 Politicians, civil servants, ministers, businessmen. 530 00:30:11,758 --> 00:30:19,172 ♪♪ 531 00:30:19,172 --> 00:30:22,862 We want to really give people the feel 532 00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:26,827 that this is a worldwide communications 533 00:30:26,827 --> 00:30:29,172 family business. 534 00:30:29,172 --> 00:30:32,068 ♪♪ 535 00:30:32,068 --> 00:30:35,655 -I remember having a whole hour in my lunchtime to buy the dress 536 00:30:35,655 --> 00:30:38,206 because I didn't have that sort of a dress, 537 00:30:38,206 --> 00:30:39,655 didn't go to those things. 538 00:30:39,655 --> 00:30:42,482 And I remember everybody but everybody you could think of 539 00:30:42,482 --> 00:30:47,482 was there -- you know, politicians, bankers, 540 00:30:47,482 --> 00:30:52,034 lawyers, people from TV, celebrities. 541 00:30:52,034 --> 00:30:53,896 And it was packed. 542 00:30:53,896 --> 00:31:00,586 ♪♪ 543 00:31:00,586 --> 00:31:02,482 -His 65th birthday 544 00:31:02,482 --> 00:31:06,206 was the most astonishing display of his success. 545 00:31:06,206 --> 00:31:08,241 ♪♪ 546 00:31:08,241 --> 00:31:10,655 I think there were 13 Lords there, 547 00:31:10,655 --> 00:31:13,172 the former head of the Bank of England, 548 00:31:13,172 --> 00:31:15,931 judges, lawyers, Harold Wilson, 549 00:31:15,931 --> 00:31:19,862 all the old Labour leaders and everything. 550 00:31:19,862 --> 00:31:24,172 ♪♪ 551 00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:27,586 Maxwell was desperate to be accepted by the establishment, 552 00:31:27,586 --> 00:31:29,275 and he loved it, of course. 553 00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:31,275 [ Fanfare plays ] 554 00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:32,793 [ Applause ] 555 00:31:32,793 --> 00:31:37,758 -Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome our host, 556 00:31:37,758 --> 00:31:42,655 Robert Maxwell. 557 00:31:57,551 --> 00:31:59,482 [ Applause ] 558 00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:03,793 -Everyone was believing that he was a renaissance man, 559 00:32:03,793 --> 00:32:09,206 and I was asked to write a book about the truth. 560 00:32:09,206 --> 00:32:12,793 And the point about Maxwell was that he was a unique man. 561 00:32:12,793 --> 00:32:14,068 There's no getting away from it. 562 00:32:14,068 --> 00:32:18,137 I mean, he was not just a polymath 563 00:32:18,137 --> 00:32:21,103 in the sense of a multi-linguist and had a lot of interests 564 00:32:21,103 --> 00:32:23,517 and was very intelligent and everything. 565 00:32:23,517 --> 00:32:26,482 But he had a presence. He had a way of operating, 566 00:32:26,482 --> 00:32:29,275 which was quite unique in London at the time. 567 00:32:29,275 --> 00:32:31,413 [ Helicopter blades whirring ] 568 00:32:31,413 --> 00:32:38,379 ♪♪ 569 00:32:38,379 --> 00:32:41,482 I wanted to find out who Maxwell really was 570 00:32:41,482 --> 00:32:43,758 and how he'd built such an empire. 571 00:32:43,758 --> 00:32:48,896 ♪♪ 572 00:32:48,896 --> 00:32:51,827 You know, Maxwell was keen to let everyone know 573 00:32:51,827 --> 00:32:54,586 he was a decorated war hero. 574 00:32:54,586 --> 00:33:00,482 But his life in postwar Berlin is where things got very shady. 575 00:33:00,482 --> 00:33:03,689 He runs a very, very lucrative black market operation, 576 00:33:03,689 --> 00:33:07,931 buying and selling cigarettes and nylons and all chewing gum, 577 00:33:07,931 --> 00:33:09,344 food, everything. 578 00:33:09,344 --> 00:33:13,275 He is the heart of taking goods from zone to zone 579 00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:15,517 and putting the cash in his pockets. 580 00:33:15,517 --> 00:33:17,793 ♪♪ 581 00:33:17,793 --> 00:33:20,724 And Maxwell was someone who wants power, 582 00:33:20,724 --> 00:33:23,310 who wants influence, who wants wealth, 583 00:33:23,310 --> 00:33:27,275 who wants to change the world. 584 00:33:27,275 --> 00:33:30,517 He goes across to the Russians, declares himself, 585 00:33:30,517 --> 00:33:32,103 gets on very well with them, 586 00:33:32,103 --> 00:33:35,103 and establishes good connections. 587 00:33:35,103 --> 00:33:37,689 He becomes a KGB agent. 588 00:33:37,689 --> 00:33:41,827 ♪♪ 589 00:33:41,827 --> 00:33:48,448 -Maxwell was a special person. He was received in our spheres. 590 00:33:50,344 --> 00:33:52,620 And now a balance, it was cold 591 00:33:52,620 --> 00:33:57,620 and useful, efficient relationship. 592 00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:00,172 So that meant that a foreigner 593 00:34:00,172 --> 00:34:03,896 can be useful to us as a person 594 00:34:03,896 --> 00:34:06,379 who would have an access to some information, 595 00:34:06,379 --> 00:34:10,931 who would willingly or unwillingly share it with us. 596 00:34:10,931 --> 00:34:13,793 ♪♪ 597 00:34:13,793 --> 00:34:17,000 -At the same time, he presents himself to MI6, 598 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,344 and he says that he's established amazing connections 599 00:34:20,344 --> 00:34:23,310 with leading scientists all over the world. 600 00:34:23,310 --> 00:34:26,172 Unbelievably, what he really wanted 601 00:34:26,172 --> 00:34:28,310 was MI6 to finance him 602 00:34:28,310 --> 00:34:30,931 to start a publishing company. 603 00:34:30,931 --> 00:34:33,482 -It was obvious that he'd been doing odd things 604 00:34:33,482 --> 00:34:35,482 for MI6 in Germany already. 605 00:34:35,482 --> 00:34:39,413 And he suggested that we should subsidise him 606 00:34:39,413 --> 00:34:42,034 to buy a book business. 607 00:34:42,034 --> 00:34:45,310 I don't know of any other case -- 608 00:34:45,310 --> 00:34:48,137 I was certainly never involved in any other case of MI6 609 00:34:48,137 --> 00:34:49,965 buying a business for anybody. 610 00:34:49,965 --> 00:34:52,482 ♪♪ 611 00:34:52,482 --> 00:34:55,103 -He's both working for British intelligence 612 00:34:55,103 --> 00:34:57,137 and Russian intelligence. 613 00:34:57,137 --> 00:34:59,896 No loyalties other than to himself. 614 00:34:59,896 --> 00:35:01,896 ♪♪ 615 00:35:01,896 --> 00:35:03,241 After all this digging, 616 00:35:03,241 --> 00:35:06,517 it was finally time to start writing my book. 617 00:35:06,517 --> 00:35:09,413 ♪♪ 618 00:35:09,413 --> 00:35:14,000 But of course, Maxwell knew exactly what I was doing, 619 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,103 and he did two things. 620 00:35:16,103 --> 00:35:20,310 First of all, he hired several private investigators, 621 00:35:20,310 --> 00:35:22,931 not only follow me but, extraordinarily, 622 00:35:22,931 --> 00:35:26,482 set up secretly some sort of electronic device 623 00:35:26,482 --> 00:35:30,034 at the bottom of my garden, in my home in North London 624 00:35:30,034 --> 00:35:34,206 and be able to read what I was writing as I was typing it up. 625 00:35:38,655 --> 00:35:41,965 And secondly, he commissioned his own book, 626 00:35:41,965 --> 00:35:45,275 with the flattering hagiography. 627 00:35:45,275 --> 00:35:48,620 -Why don't you quote Goldman Sachs when it says, 628 00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:51,172 "If only all other British businessmen 629 00:35:51,172 --> 00:35:52,724 were like Mr. Robert Maxwell"? 630 00:35:52,724 --> 00:35:55,724 It's the best credit that you can get. 631 00:35:55,724 --> 00:35:57,586 ♪♪ 632 00:35:57,586 --> 00:36:00,827 -Well, I had no doubt, as I got towards 633 00:36:00,827 --> 00:36:02,206 the end of the book, 634 00:36:02,206 --> 00:36:05,448 that Maxwell tried to prevent it being published. 635 00:36:05,448 --> 00:36:06,862 And so I persuaded the publishers, 636 00:36:06,862 --> 00:36:08,758 without much trouble, that we should print it 637 00:36:08,758 --> 00:36:11,137 out of England and import in into England 638 00:36:11,137 --> 00:36:12,689 as a gardening book. 639 00:36:12,689 --> 00:36:15,482 So it would say something like "Flowers of Britain" 640 00:36:15,482 --> 00:36:18,310 or "Flowers of China" on the packaging 641 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:23,137 so that his attempts to steal it, intercept it 642 00:36:23,137 --> 00:36:26,034 at the ports would be unsuccessful. 643 00:36:29,793 --> 00:36:32,517 -Publishers have for years been after me, 644 00:36:32,517 --> 00:36:36,172 asking me to authorise or write my own biography. 645 00:36:36,172 --> 00:36:38,068 I've always refused. 646 00:36:38,068 --> 00:36:39,793 In the end, one of those publishers 647 00:36:39,793 --> 00:36:41,827 decided to hire somebody 648 00:36:41,827 --> 00:36:45,379 who did a hatchet job on me, Mr. Bower. 649 00:36:45,379 --> 00:36:48,310 Since I have to protect my reputation, 650 00:36:48,310 --> 00:36:50,862 I'm suing these people for libel, 651 00:36:50,862 --> 00:36:53,310 and any bookseller who handles the book 652 00:36:53,310 --> 00:36:57,827 is in danger of having to pay huge damages. 653 00:36:57,827 --> 00:36:59,482 -Then came the avalanche. 654 00:36:59,482 --> 00:37:02,724 Maxwell issued writs like confetti. 655 00:37:02,724 --> 00:37:04,827 -This week, Bower got what may prove to be 656 00:37:04,827 --> 00:37:06,655 just the first writ. 657 00:37:06,655 --> 00:37:09,310 -They were not only writs against me and the publishers 658 00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:11,482 but writs against all the bookshops 659 00:37:11,482 --> 00:37:14,758 and also writs against the distributors of books. 660 00:37:14,758 --> 00:37:18,724 And like a pack of cards, they all collapsed. 661 00:37:23,517 --> 00:37:26,655 The establishment was on Maxwell's side. 662 00:37:26,655 --> 00:37:29,896 He used terrorist tactics to suppress the truth, 663 00:37:29,896 --> 00:37:33,000 suppressed the book, and he won. 664 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,896 ♪♪ 665 00:37:38,896 --> 00:37:44,758 ♪♪ 666 00:37:44,758 --> 00:37:48,413 [ Telephone ringing ] 667 00:37:48,413 --> 00:37:55,586 ♪♪ 668 00:38:11,689 --> 00:38:15,689 ♪♪ 669 00:38:15,689 --> 00:38:21,137 -It's now 5 hours since Maxwell was reported missing, 670 00:38:21,137 --> 00:38:25,482 and news is spreading. 671 00:38:25,482 --> 00:38:27,137 -The billionaire publisher of The Daily Mirror, 672 00:38:27,137 --> 00:38:29,000 Robert Maxwell, has been reported missing 673 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,758 from his motor yacht off the Canary Islands. 674 00:38:31,758 --> 00:38:35,689 -Robert Maxwell was last spoken to at 4:45 this morning 675 00:38:35,689 --> 00:38:39,413 aboard his luxury yacht on which he was taking a few days off. 676 00:38:39,413 --> 00:38:42,172 ♪♪ 677 00:38:42,172 --> 00:38:48,241 -Across Maxwell's empire, panic is starting to take hold. 678 00:38:48,241 --> 00:38:53,413 [ Telephone ringing ] 679 00:39:02,103 --> 00:39:04,551 -The first hint that something was seriously wrong 680 00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:06,000 came from the stock exchange, 681 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,931 where this afternoon, trading was suspended 682 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:11,137 in Mr. Maxwell's companies at their request. 683 00:39:11,137 --> 00:39:12,896 It was a statement from the Mirror Group, 684 00:39:12,896 --> 00:39:14,724 which first revealed that the company chairman 685 00:39:14,724 --> 00:39:16,068 was missing at sea 686 00:39:16,068 --> 00:39:18,000 and that a full search was under way. 687 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,482 -A sea and air search began 688 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:22,103 after three further extensive searches of the ship 689 00:39:22,103 --> 00:39:25,137 found no trace of Mr. Maxwell. 690 00:39:25,137 --> 00:39:26,551 Mr. Maxwell's family 691 00:39:26,551 --> 00:39:28,758 were immediately informed of the search. 692 00:39:28,758 --> 00:39:30,931 Weather conditions for the search 693 00:39:30,931 --> 00:39:32,655 were reported to be good. 694 00:39:32,655 --> 00:39:36,448 ♪♪ 695 00:39:36,448 --> 00:39:40,103 [ Telephone ringing ] 696 00:39:40,103 --> 00:39:45,620 ♪♪ 697 00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:51,068 ♪♪ 698 00:40:12,172 --> 00:40:19,862 ♪♪ 699 00:40:19,862 --> 00:40:27,551 ♪♪ 700 00:40:27,551 --> 00:40:35,068 ♪♪ 701 00:40:35,068 --> 00:40:42,620 ♪♪ 702 00:40:42,620 --> 00:40:45,034 -America was everything to him. 703 00:40:45,034 --> 00:40:49,931 I think that he loved power in America 704 00:40:49,931 --> 00:40:52,344 and he wanted to be a captain of industry here. 705 00:40:52,344 --> 00:40:54,620 He liked the idea of owning New York 706 00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:56,896 'cause Murdoch was actually here in America 707 00:40:56,896 --> 00:40:58,206 most of the time, too. 708 00:40:58,206 --> 00:41:00,655 ♪♪ 709 00:41:00,655 --> 00:41:02,965 -Robert Maxwell, the new owner of The Daily News, 710 00:41:02,965 --> 00:41:05,827 started printing presses today after paying over $60 million 711 00:41:05,827 --> 00:41:08,655 for the iconic New York paper. 712 00:41:08,655 --> 00:41:11,241 Oh, The Daily News is one of those trophies of New York 713 00:41:11,241 --> 00:41:14,448 where if you're gonna be part of the tradition 714 00:41:14,448 --> 00:41:16,413 of Manhattan and New York City, 715 00:41:16,413 --> 00:41:19,551 owning a newspaper company is a big deal. 716 00:41:19,551 --> 00:41:20,931 And he was thought of as the white knight 717 00:41:20,931 --> 00:41:22,310 for saving The Daily News. 718 00:41:22,310 --> 00:41:23,586 -Thank you. 719 00:41:23,586 --> 00:41:25,103 Lots of luck, Mr. Maxwell. -Thank you. 720 00:41:25,103 --> 00:41:27,586 -But, you know, he was his best PR guy, 721 00:41:27,586 --> 00:41:29,517 and he didn't trust anyone else, really. 722 00:41:29,517 --> 00:41:31,965 So I was learning from him how to do it. 723 00:41:31,965 --> 00:41:34,068 He was kind of brilliant at it. 724 00:41:34,068 --> 00:41:38,655 ♪♪ 725 00:41:38,655 --> 00:41:42,379 -He was an expert in something called soft power. 726 00:41:42,379 --> 00:41:45,103 Soft power is a way of building trust. 727 00:41:45,103 --> 00:41:47,068 When you meet somebody and face to face, 728 00:41:47,068 --> 00:41:48,551 you build trust. 729 00:41:48,551 --> 00:41:52,310 It's the idea that when people connect, 730 00:41:52,310 --> 00:41:54,310 you have the right conversations with them, 731 00:41:54,310 --> 00:41:57,034 that you are breaking bread with them 732 00:41:57,034 --> 00:41:58,827 and you're toasting properly 733 00:41:58,827 --> 00:42:01,551 and you're connecting with people, 734 00:42:01,551 --> 00:42:03,896 because people care about the soft power 735 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:05,137 and the emotional stuff 736 00:42:05,137 --> 00:42:07,620 more than they care about the other things. 737 00:42:07,620 --> 00:42:10,137 ♪♪ 738 00:42:10,137 --> 00:42:13,482 When we would do benefits and events, 739 00:42:13,482 --> 00:42:16,827 we would spend hours working on the seating charts, 740 00:42:16,827 --> 00:42:19,137 because he was a master at understanding 741 00:42:19,137 --> 00:42:20,724 how soft power works 742 00:42:20,724 --> 00:42:24,275 and how you should connect, how you should participate, 743 00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:25,862 how you need to wear the costume 744 00:42:25,862 --> 00:42:27,793 that's gonna be the biggest costume ever at a costume party, 745 00:42:27,793 --> 00:42:30,482 like he did at the Malcolm Forbes event. 746 00:42:30,482 --> 00:42:34,206 He knew how to do that. He knew those kinds of things. 747 00:42:34,206 --> 00:42:39,034 [ Indistinct shouting ] 748 00:42:39,034 --> 00:42:44,793 And using anger and happiness and sadness to manipulate 749 00:42:44,793 --> 00:42:46,620 is one of the things he was a master at. 750 00:42:46,620 --> 00:42:56,068 ♪♪ 751 00:42:56,068 --> 00:42:59,172 [ Horn honking, siren wailing ] 752 00:42:59,172 --> 00:43:04,034 -I met Ghislaine in one of the hottest nightclubs of the time 753 00:43:04,034 --> 00:43:07,413 with a cluster of very bright, 754 00:43:07,413 --> 00:43:12,103 super-achieving young Brits living in New York. 755 00:43:12,103 --> 00:43:16,310 She was effervescent, 756 00:43:16,310 --> 00:43:19,620 hilariously funny, self-deprecating, 757 00:43:19,620 --> 00:43:25,137 and had a great line of dirty jokes. 758 00:43:25,137 --> 00:43:30,068 She was a superb networker for her father. 759 00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:32,275 She was there to kind of help him 760 00:43:32,275 --> 00:43:35,965 navigate the power structures in New York. 761 00:43:35,965 --> 00:43:39,793 And she's naturally gregarious, 762 00:43:39,793 --> 00:43:44,103 so she didn't seem to have a particular job description, 763 00:43:44,103 --> 00:43:46,965 but she was her father's daughter, 764 00:43:46,965 --> 00:43:48,448 his gal on the ground, 765 00:43:48,448 --> 00:43:52,103 name-dropping Henry Kissinger and various names, 766 00:43:52,103 --> 00:43:54,931 people that she was hanging out with. 767 00:43:54,931 --> 00:43:56,413 So it just seemed, you know, 768 00:43:56,413 --> 00:44:00,034 the inexorable rise of Ghislaine Maxwell was happening. 769 00:44:00,034 --> 00:44:06,206 ♪♪ 770 00:44:08,448 --> 00:44:16,310 ♪♪ 771 00:44:16,310 --> 00:44:18,551 [ Bell ringing ] 772 00:44:18,551 --> 00:44:25,448 ♪♪ 773 00:44:25,448 --> 00:44:28,000 -Although recessions have no official definition, 774 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,551 few doubt that the economy is now in a deep one. 775 00:44:30,551 --> 00:44:33,482 The arguments are about how long it will last. 776 00:44:33,482 --> 00:44:36,551 -This is a deep recession, which if it is not corrected, 777 00:44:36,551 --> 00:44:38,137 will head towards a slump. 778 00:44:38,137 --> 00:44:40,931 -This is a vote of no confidence in the British economy. 779 00:44:40,931 --> 00:44:43,724 Profits are falling and prospects are grim. 780 00:44:43,724 --> 00:44:49,965 ♪♪ 781 00:44:49,965 --> 00:44:56,206 ♪♪ 782 00:44:56,206 --> 00:45:00,137 -We had a long-term relationship with Maxwell. 783 00:45:00,137 --> 00:45:02,827 We were his main bankers, 784 00:45:02,827 --> 00:45:04,655 and he would pick up the phone 785 00:45:04,655 --> 00:45:10,344 and expect us to jump and lend him money. 786 00:45:10,344 --> 00:45:11,689 There was knowledge 787 00:45:11,689 --> 00:45:14,206 that actually there were a few liquidity problems. 788 00:45:14,206 --> 00:45:16,655 He didn't have the cash to run the business. 789 00:45:16,655 --> 00:45:19,068 And if you haven't got the cash to run the business, 790 00:45:19,068 --> 00:45:20,310 you had to go to the banks, 791 00:45:20,310 --> 00:45:21,965 and the banks would give you the money, 792 00:45:21,965 --> 00:45:24,137 provided the business is sound. 793 00:45:24,137 --> 00:45:27,275 We felt with Maxwell Communication Corporation 794 00:45:27,275 --> 00:45:31,448 that was a lot of good businesses, 795 00:45:31,448 --> 00:45:33,793 but he paid too much for it. 796 00:45:33,793 --> 00:45:37,137 And there was a recession at that time, 797 00:45:37,137 --> 00:45:42,137 and it became very difficult to run it on a day-to-day basis. 798 00:45:42,137 --> 00:45:43,517 And Robert acknowledged that. 799 00:45:43,517 --> 00:45:47,206 His comment was that he had plenty of money, 800 00:45:47,206 --> 00:45:49,068 but it wasn't cash. 801 00:45:49,068 --> 00:45:52,689 It was in assets which he was selling. 802 00:45:52,689 --> 00:45:55,965 -You buyers or sellers? 803 00:45:55,965 --> 00:45:57,482 All off. 804 00:45:57,482 --> 00:46:02,896 ♪♪ 805 00:46:02,896 --> 00:46:08,344 ♪♪ 806 00:46:08,344 --> 00:46:11,310 -We were in an era where it was go, go, go, go, go, 807 00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:12,758 and then all of a sudden it wasn't. 808 00:46:12,758 --> 00:46:14,448 So everything was leveraged, 809 00:46:14,448 --> 00:46:16,862 so he had to, like, cut back. 810 00:46:16,862 --> 00:46:18,793 And cutting back, 811 00:46:18,793 --> 00:46:22,482 especially when it was dubious to begin with, was really hard. 812 00:46:22,482 --> 00:46:24,586 -So, I don't want to sell us cheap, 813 00:46:24,586 --> 00:46:26,517 so, and I want you to dig deep. 814 00:46:26,517 --> 00:46:28,827 That's what we're going to talk about. 815 00:46:28,827 --> 00:46:31,965 Bye. 816 00:46:31,965 --> 00:46:34,275 -One of the attributes of Maxwell 817 00:46:34,275 --> 00:46:36,689 was to exude confidence, even if he didn't have it, 818 00:46:36,689 --> 00:46:40,620 and to even if he was struggling not to look like it. 819 00:46:40,620 --> 00:46:43,827 And he didn't, and so he felt that, 820 00:46:43,827 --> 00:46:45,620 you know, if you didn't want to show panic, 821 00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:47,344 you didn't want to show fear, 822 00:46:47,344 --> 00:46:49,655 you didn't want to give off the scent 823 00:46:49,655 --> 00:46:51,551 that something was wrong. 824 00:46:51,551 --> 00:46:56,344 ♪♪ 825 00:46:56,344 --> 00:46:58,896 So what does he do? He keeps building his empire. 826 00:46:58,896 --> 00:47:00,896 Buy, buy, buy. 827 00:47:00,896 --> 00:47:09,931 ♪♪ 828 00:47:09,931 --> 00:47:18,793 ♪♪ 829 00:47:18,793 --> 00:47:22,344 -I met Maxwell when he came to Jerusalem. 830 00:47:22,344 --> 00:47:24,344 I was interested in making a film about him 831 00:47:24,344 --> 00:47:28,827 because Maxwell was an intriguing character to me. 832 00:47:28,827 --> 00:47:31,172 And I was an Oscar-nominated director, 833 00:47:31,172 --> 00:47:34,620 and that's the kind of man he would want to work with. 834 00:47:37,206 --> 00:47:40,482 I was invited to his suite at the King David Hotel, 835 00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:44,689 which is a very famous hotel in Jerusalem, for brunch. 836 00:47:46,448 --> 00:47:50,655 He asked me, "Are you going to record this?" 837 00:47:50,655 --> 00:47:54,896 And I took out a small tape machine and pressed record. 838 00:47:54,896 --> 00:47:57,862 ♪♪ 839 00:47:57,862 --> 00:48:02,000 He started by telling me where he came from. 840 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,413 He told me Robert Maxwell wasn't even his real name. 841 00:48:06,413 --> 00:48:11,517 ♪♪ 842 00:48:11,517 --> 00:48:15,517 -My surname was Hoch, H-O-C-H. 843 00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:19,896 I was born in a small village in Carpathia, Ruthenia, 844 00:48:19,896 --> 00:48:22,413 which is the eastern part of Czechoslovakia. 845 00:48:24,034 --> 00:48:28,793 A very primitive village. I was one of seven children. 846 00:48:28,793 --> 00:48:32,758 My parents were poor farm workers. 847 00:48:32,758 --> 00:48:34,103 Was a Jewish family. 848 00:48:34,103 --> 00:48:37,517 ♪♪ 849 00:48:37,517 --> 00:48:39,827 Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia 850 00:48:39,827 --> 00:48:42,275 resulted in my joining the underground. 851 00:48:42,275 --> 00:48:45,103 -I was eventually captured. 852 00:48:45,103 --> 00:48:48,517 I managed to escape, and after the collapse of France, 853 00:48:48,517 --> 00:48:52,034 I landed in Britain in September 1940 854 00:48:52,034 --> 00:48:57,448 with a rifle in my hand to help carry on the fight. 855 00:48:57,448 --> 00:48:58,793 At the end of the war, 856 00:48:58,793 --> 00:49:02,413 I discovered the fate of my parents 857 00:49:02,413 --> 00:49:06,827 and my sisters and brothers, relatives and neighbours. 858 00:49:06,827 --> 00:49:10,827 ♪♪ 859 00:49:10,827 --> 00:49:15,034 -He told me that his family was wiped out during the Holocaust. 860 00:49:15,034 --> 00:49:20,862 ♪♪ 861 00:49:20,862 --> 00:49:23,206 The interview went well, 862 00:49:23,206 --> 00:49:27,137 and we agreed to meet at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. 863 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,931 They try to name every community 864 00:49:30,931 --> 00:49:34,275 that was wiped out during the Holocaust. 865 00:49:36,620 --> 00:49:41,206 And I wanted to take him there. 866 00:49:41,206 --> 00:49:43,655 He was quite taken by it. 867 00:49:45,448 --> 00:49:50,172 -There, at the bottom of this obelisk, 868 00:49:50,172 --> 00:49:56,103 are named towns and communities from Carpathian Ruthenia, 869 00:49:56,103 --> 00:49:58,482 where I come from. 870 00:49:58,482 --> 00:50:04,241 And at the bottom, the shtetl Solotvina. 871 00:50:04,241 --> 00:50:09,827 Some years ago, I visited it with my wife 872 00:50:09,827 --> 00:50:16,137 to discover that not a single Jew was left in Solotvina. 873 00:50:17,827 --> 00:50:21,310 It's as if we'd never been. 874 00:50:21,310 --> 00:50:23,896 -And we got to the end, and I was satisfied, 875 00:50:23,896 --> 00:50:26,034 but still lacking something. 876 00:50:26,034 --> 00:50:28,965 And I just didn't have the heart from him whom I wanted, 877 00:50:28,965 --> 00:50:32,758 any kind of open emotion. 878 00:50:32,758 --> 00:50:37,379 And I asked him if he would just walk towards the wall 879 00:50:37,379 --> 00:50:41,965 where his village was inscribed 880 00:50:41,965 --> 00:50:45,827 and just touch it to touch the village for me. 881 00:50:45,827 --> 00:50:49,482 And he did, and then we did another take. 882 00:50:49,482 --> 00:50:52,862 And when he got there, he broke. 883 00:50:52,862 --> 00:50:56,551 -I don't know what went through their mind 884 00:50:56,551 --> 00:51:01,827 as they realised that they have been tricked into a gas chamber, 885 00:51:01,827 --> 00:51:03,482 many of them. 886 00:51:03,482 --> 00:51:07,137 But one thing that helped is that they will not be forgotten. 887 00:51:10,172 --> 00:51:15,448 And this memorial in Jerusalem proves that. 888 00:51:15,448 --> 00:51:21,275 ♪♪ 889 00:51:21,275 --> 00:51:25,517 -I saw the change in him. He drew inward. 890 00:51:25,517 --> 00:51:28,827 There were no other words, nothing exchanged. 891 00:51:28,827 --> 00:51:34,379 I think that opened up 892 00:51:34,379 --> 00:51:36,896 some crack in the armour. 893 00:51:36,896 --> 00:51:40,172 ♪♪ 894 00:51:40,172 --> 00:51:43,310 Having gone through what he went through, 895 00:51:43,310 --> 00:51:46,793 to have your family wiped out, 896 00:51:46,793 --> 00:51:48,310 there go your roots. 897 00:51:48,310 --> 00:51:50,379 It's scarring. 898 00:51:50,379 --> 00:51:52,620 It's baggage you never lose. 899 00:51:52,620 --> 00:51:56,758 ♪♪ 900 00:51:56,758 --> 00:52:00,896 And I didn't see him again until the night of the event, 901 00:52:00,896 --> 00:52:04,241 "Yad Veshem," that was at the New York Hilton. 902 00:52:04,241 --> 00:52:07,034 And when the film ran, 903 00:52:07,034 --> 00:52:12,413 and when it finished, and I knew it had hit home. 904 00:52:12,413 --> 00:52:19,655 ♪♪ 905 00:52:19,655 --> 00:52:26,896 ♪♪ 906 00:52:26,896 --> 00:52:34,137 ♪♪ 907 00:52:34,137 --> 00:52:36,724 And then he went from there... 908 00:52:38,206 --> 00:52:40,724 directly to his yacht, I believe. 909 00:52:40,724 --> 00:52:44,551 I don't think he was ever public again. 910 00:52:44,551 --> 00:52:48,862 ♪♪ 911 00:52:48,862 --> 00:52:52,862 -I believe I was one of the last people to see him alive. 912 00:52:52,862 --> 00:52:59,000 ♪♪ 913 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:04,655 ♪♪ 914 00:53:04,655 --> 00:53:07,310 -Now back to tonight's main news, 915 00:53:07,310 --> 00:53:09,827 the disappearance of the publisher Robert Maxwell. 916 00:53:09,827 --> 00:53:11,827 Mr. Maxwell is feared lost overboard 917 00:53:11,827 --> 00:53:13,896 from his yacht off the Canaries. 918 00:53:13,896 --> 00:53:15,310 Within the last few minutes, 919 00:53:15,310 --> 00:53:18,275 rescue services have reported finding a body. 920 00:53:21,793 --> 00:53:26,344 [ Telephone rings ] 921 00:53:40,482 --> 00:53:48,965 ♪♪ 922 00:53:48,965 --> 00:53:57,413 ♪♪ 923 00:53:57,413 --> 00:54:03,000 [ Indistinct radio chatter ] 924 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,655 [ Helicopter blades whirring ] 925 00:54:04,655 --> 00:54:09,517 -Maxwell's body is finally found by a fishing boat 926 00:54:09,517 --> 00:54:12,448 20 miles south of Gran Canaria. 927 00:54:12,448 --> 00:54:21,103 ♪♪ 928 00:54:21,103 --> 00:54:23,482 [ Telephone rings ] 929 00:54:54,965 --> 00:55:02,068 ♪♪ 930 00:55:02,068 --> 00:55:06,275 -The body of my husband was found 931 00:55:06,275 --> 00:55:09,827 near Los Cristianos islands, 932 00:55:09,827 --> 00:55:13,862 and it was taken to Las Palmas. 933 00:55:13,862 --> 00:55:23,724 ♪♪ 934 00:55:23,724 --> 00:55:33,586 ♪♪ 935 00:55:33,586 --> 00:55:43,310 ♪♪ 936 00:55:43,310 --> 00:55:49,620 -It's very sad news for me and my brother, 937 00:55:49,620 --> 00:55:58,137 for my mother and our five brothers and sisters. 938 00:55:58,137 --> 00:56:01,344 This paper has lost its publisher 939 00:56:01,344 --> 00:56:04,206 and its chairman and its saviour. 940 00:56:04,206 --> 00:56:12,137 ♪♪ 941 00:56:12,137 --> 00:56:16,379 -But as his body is taken for postmortem... 942 00:56:16,379 --> 00:56:19,413 [ Telephone rings ] 943 00:56:19,413 --> 00:56:22,206 ...the truth about Robert Maxwell 944 00:56:22,206 --> 00:56:25,103 is about to be revealed 945 00:56:25,103 --> 00:56:29,413 and the full scale of his crimes. 946 00:56:29,413 --> 00:56:32,586 ♪♪ 947 00:56:50,655 --> 00:56:52,689 [ Sighs ] 948 00:56:59,896 --> 00:57:10,034 ♪♪ 949 00:57:13,965 --> 00:57:17,931 -Tonight, a police van pulled out of Maxwell headquarters. 950 00:57:17,931 --> 00:57:20,965 -Maxwell had stolen all the pension money, 951 00:57:20,965 --> 00:57:23,068 £300 million. 952 00:57:23,068 --> 00:57:26,586 -The Maxwell Brothers were arrested at 6:30 this morning. 953 00:57:26,586 --> 00:57:28,310 -I am really looking forward 954 00:57:28,310 --> 00:57:32,103 to being able to defend myself in a court of law. 955 00:57:32,103 --> 00:57:34,379 -I ran into Ghislaine, and she said, 956 00:57:34,379 --> 00:57:35,793 "I'm gonna introduce you to Jeffrey." 957 00:57:35,793 --> 00:57:39,758 -Don't you feel insecure, scared from the future? 958 00:57:39,758 --> 00:57:42,517 -No, I'm lucky. I get to start again. 959 00:57:42,517 --> 00:57:50,827 ♪♪ 960 00:57:50,827 --> 00:57:59,137 ♪♪ 961 00:57:59,137 --> 00:58:07,551 ♪♪