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🌊 The Curious Case of Robert Maxwell

🌊 The Curious Case of Robert Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell’s father is a critical piece in Epstein conspiracy theories. But who is he? Are the conspiracy theorists right?

July 21, 2025

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By Max Towey

If you frequent Conspiracy Land, you’re probably acquainted with Robert Maxwell.

Although he died in 1991, Robert Maxwell is a key figure – perhaps the key figure – in the theory that claims Jeffrey Epstein was an agent for Mossad, Israel’s CIA – a theory that has ballooned in recent weeks.

On July 8, Tucker Carlson kicked off a two-hour video about Epstein with a chapter called, “The Suspicious Life of Robert Maxwell.” Then last Wednesday, Candace Owens released part one of her new series called “Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Epstein Files.” The opening line of her multi-part series was, “The Jeffrey Epstein story begins with Robert Maxwell.”

So who is this mysterious figure? How does he establish an Epstein-Mossad connection? Or is this a case of 12 Angry Men, where close inspection of each pillar of the case is much weaker than it seemed at first glance?

This week, we give an independent account of the Robert Maxwell story and his alleged ties to Mossad. You can judge for yourself whether he’s the man who gave Epstein to Israel.

Robert Maxwell was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in a small Czechoslovakian town in 1923. He and his six siblings lived in a two-room shack and shared shoes in the winter.

When the Nazis marched into Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Maxwell was selling trinkets in the town square. After snipping off his locks, he managed to escape and make it to France. His family, however, was not so lucky: His mom, dad, and four of his siblings were killed either at Auschwitz or en route.

In France, he joined the Czechoslovakian army in exile and later the British Army, where he rose to the rank of captain. Accounts of his bravery include him “storming a German machine-gun nest” and rescuing a trapped Allied platoon. According to some accounts, he was also ruthless: In one instance, he allegedly gunned down German troops who had already surrendered with a machine gun; in another, he shot dead the mayor of a German town. Nevertheless, for his heroics, he was awarded the Military Cross.

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Editor’s Note

Today, we covered the established facts around Robert Maxwell’s life. Tomorrow, we’ll look at his alleged ties to Mossad, the theories around that, and his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein. In the meantime, if you have thoughts, please let us know.

Also, if you missed any of our recent stories, check them out below. We’re especially proud of yesterday’s on-the-ground report from AGI House in Silicon Valley. We recommend reading it if you haven’t yet.

And an interesting anonymous reply to yesterday’s article that we wanted to share:

I work in the tech industry on AI products.

The social consequences are not overblown and criminally underplayed. I get so angry with the train analogy and the catch-up analogy. Firstly, if you really were worried about this as a weapon, why not more research and energy being put in to identify and regulate AI-generated content? Why not be on the defensive? It’s not like a nuke that it’s inherently destructive, it’s destructive because people can get duped and influenced by it. AI generated content detection is just more difficult and less sexy to investors.

Second, just the hubris of saying “oh yeah, we are the people to keep the train in the right direction” while the only people in the room have a very specific pedigree and academic background. I went to undergrad at Cal and have a PhD from UIUC. I know these people and their attitude towards anyone who isn’t an electrical engineer or a computer scientist— they think they are the smartest people in the room and are the most “objective” thinkers. It’s a massive blind spot and is encouraged and enabled by their teachers and their peers. At UIUC I taught a class for three years that was required for undergrads to meet their humanities requirements and there was just this attitude among CS / engineering students of “oh this is humanities? I don’t have to care. This is meaningless and is complete bullshit”. Meanwhile we were talking about things like social context and ideology, how malleable meaning is and how peoples beliefs about things can be influenced and changed. They don’t care about critical thinking because they grow up in this bubble that they are better than that and that it’s not important. (Look I’m not saying humanities is without its own problems and bullshit, I just think any outlook where you look down on ideas or exercises ‘just because’ is scary). They don’t understand they themselves have their own personal ideologies that influence what they do in a subjective way. They are as subjective as anyone else but don’t have the tools or culture to even recognize it. It’s the Social Network, it’s what happened at Facebook before the election, its Character AI specifically (allegedly) contributing to that young guy’s suicide — it’s a bubble! One I think will have more negative consequences than just financial. They don’t care about loneliness or revenge porn or people getting hurt by this stuff.

See you tomorrow,

Max and Max