A former secretary to the disgraced British press baron Robert Maxwell has described a bizarre phone call she overheard between the tycoon and his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, recently convicted of sex trafficking offences, in which the pair meowed at each other like cats.
In November 1991, Robert Maxwell mysteriously disappeared from the deck of his luxury yacht – the Lady Ghislaine, named after his daughter – off the Canary Islands.
She said of Ms Maxwell: “She was very beautiful when she was young and she was clever.
“And he says ‘Put her on’ and the next thing I heard was ‘meow’, and he went ‘meow, meow’ and she went ‘meow’.