Ghislaine Maxwell’s former Bradford, N.H. hideout is back on the market, this time the 156-acre estate is selling for $2.495 million. Maxwell was arrested there in 2020. Boundless Estates photo
By RAY CARBONE, InDepthNH.org
BRADFORD – The latest information released by the US Department of Justice this week reveal new details about how Ghislaine Maxwell purchased a mountaintop residence here and what happened the day she was finally arrested.
Maxwell was the longtime associate of notorious financier and child sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, who died of suicide in jail awaiting trial in 2019.
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Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other related offenses and is now serving a 20-year prison sentence and is seeking a new trial.
Authorities say that she was seeking to evade capture when she purchased the 156-acre estate in a sparely populated area of Bradford.
Documents released under the federal Epstein Files Transparency Act shortly after midnight Tuesday morning say that Maxwell bought the property under a false name; earlier information said that the deal was actually made using a limited liability company or LLC, a business entity that can protect the identity of owners or investors.
The new documents state that a local realtor met Maxwell and a male companion, who identified themselves as Scott and Janet Marshall. The couple had British accents and said Janet Maxwell was a journalist who highly valued her privacy.
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It wasn’t until after the arrest that the realtor recognized Maxwell’s face and notified authorities.
The documents also add some details about Maxwell’s arrest the morning of July 2, 2020. Authorities say they knocked on the door of her mansion on East Washington Road in Bradford around 8:30 a.m. but when no one answered, they forced it open. Maxwell then ran to an interior room where she was found and taken into custody.
A cell phone on a nearby desk was wrapped in tin foil, an apparent attempt to neutralize the exact tracking system that led investigations to her location.
Like most people in Bradford, Police Chief Ed Shaughnessy said he wasn’t aware of Maxwell’s stay in his town before the 2020 arrest. “Do you think that if I knew she was there, I wouldn’t have come up to get her,” he asked rhetorically, reflecting on her apprehension.
Shaughnessy may have been the only local person who was at the scene that day. He said he received a phone call at 4:30 a.m. that muggy morning telling him about the pending arrest and inviting him to take part in Maxwell’s capture.
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“I didn’t know a lot about her at the time,” he recalled. “Then I got up and googled her.”
Shaughnessy drove his cruiser eastwards to the Market Basket parking lot in Warner, where he met up with other law enforcement officials for a pre-arrest briefing. Then his vehicle led about 14 others in a caravan heading westward on the two-lane Rte. 103 about 30 minutes back into Bradford, up Center and West roads, and then left onto East Washington Road.
Shaughnessy said that when he arrived around 8:30 a.m., about 30 law enforcement aircrafts overhead. “I don’t know if they were small planes or helicopters,” he said, but the they were definitely related to the police activity and not to the media that flooded the town later that day.
The large police presence was likely related to court records showing that officials believed Maxwell had both the financial resources and social mobility to flee the country if she wasn’t arrested.
Much of what happened during Maxwell’s arrest wasn’t initially made public. Official reports said that she was taken into custody “without incident,” but later information said that she refused to open the front door and she was seen through a window fleeing into an interior room. Officers forced their way into the home and then into the room where they found Maxwell.
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Chief Shaughnessy said that his local department had no role in the arrest but he did see officers escorting Maxwell into a cruiser. She was held at the Merrimack County Corrections Facility in Boscawen for several days before being sent to New York where she stood trial for her crimes.
That morning, the chief also learned that members of Maxwell’s onsite security team were former British secret service personnel. They said she never left the Bradford property. “Her security team did the food shopping, ran the errands,” the chief recalled.
The former Maxwell estate is for sale again. This summer Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty-New Hampshire listed the property at $2,495,000. Maxwell purchased the residence in 2019 for $1 million in cash using a limited liability company, according to paperwork filed by federal prosecutors.
Town records recently listed the property assessment at $1,829,005 with an annual tax of $30,353. The asking price on the land was recently dropped $30,000 to $2,365,000.
The mountaintop estate is not visible from the road but a careful observer can find the dirt road entrance off East Washington Road, across from a modest brown home and adjacent to a utility pole.
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About one-quarter of the way up the incline a wire fence blocks traffic and announces that one should “Beware of Dog.”
A security keypad sits a few feet in front of the fence. The newly released documents say that there was a full security system in operation when Maxwell lived there.
On various real estate websites, photographs and descriptions depict an extravagant estate. One realtor called it a “privacy lovers dream.”
The main 4,365-sq ft. residence is a timber-framed two-story structure that includes a Great Room with a fieldstone fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows. A second structure is a 1800s cape house, with a barn and fireplace. Spectacular views abound and one description calls it the dream of a “hunter, farmer, horse lover, (or) hiker.”
This is not the first time Maxwell’s former residence has been sold. A couple purchased the property last year but later decided to resell it. One local woman said the couple from southern New England might have found central New Hampshire winters too severe.
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The newly released photos and documents have been made public because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law last month.
One released photo of New Hampshire businessman and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, showed Kamen sitting with businessman Richard Branson and Epstein walking behind them. Another more recently released photo showed Kamen and Ghislaine Maxwell riding a Segway. Kamen has not been accused of any wrongdoing in the Epstein matter.
Kamen, the founder of DEKA Research and Development, told WMUR that he was a speaker at the TED Conference in Monterey, California a number of times, including February 2002 (https://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_to_invent_is_to_give).
Kamen told WMUR: “If I had to guess, based in part on helpful reminders from friends, I would say that this photo was taken at that conference (or some similar conference) shortly after the launch of Segway where I gave I rides to many, if not most, of the TED conference attendees.
“Unfortunately, Jeffrey Epstein was a central figure in the TED community for many years. I have no specific memory of this photo or any other interaction with Ghislaine Maxwell and had only limited interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. I hope that it goes without saying that those interactions in no way involved any wrong-doing and, in hindsight with what I now know, I regret even those limited interactions. Again, I have no knowledge of any of the horrific actions of Jeffrey Epstein (or Ghislaine Maxwell) other than what I have learned from news reports,” Kamen said.
WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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