Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s Father, Blackmailed Mossad: £400M or Expose Spy Secrets

Recent releases from the Jeffrey Epstein documents (around early 2026 batches via the U.S. Department of Justice) include a 2018 email from Epstein himself, in which he quoted or referenced an investigative story (originally from The Mirror newspaper) alleging that Robert Maxwell—Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the British media tycoon and long-suspected Mossad asset—threatened Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

According to the claim, Maxwell demanded £400 million (roughly $550–600 million at the time) to bail out his collapsing financial empire in the late 1980s/early 1990s, warning that he would otherwise expose “all he had done for them” (implying his alleged services as a spy, arms dealer, or facilitator in operations like the PROMIS software scandal or the Mordechai Vanunu nuclear whistleblower case).

The story suggests Mossad refused and may have responded by assassinating him, contributing to persistent conspiracy theories around his mysterious 1991 death (officially drowning/falling from his yacht, Lady Ghislaine, but widely debated as suicide, accident, or murder). This detail resurfaced in the Epstein files amid broader scrutiny of intelligence ties—Epstein was allegedly introduced to elite networks partly through Robert Maxwell (via Ghislaine), with longstanding unproven claims that Epstein himself operated as a Mossad-linked “honeytrap” for blackmail.

No official confirmation from Mossad or Israeli authorities exists, and the allegation remains a recycled rumor amplified by the files rather than new hard evidence; Epstein reportedly laughed off or dismissed similar spy claims in other contexts. The £400 million figure also ties into Maxwell’s real-life pension fund theft scandal (over £400 million missing from employee pensions to prop up his companies), fueling speculation about desperation and leverage. Overall, this fuels ongoing theories but lacks independent verification in the documents.