[1] Maxwell's body was found floating in the water off the Canary Islands after an impromptu five-day cruise on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. Despite the circumstances -- his media empire collapsing around him, mired in debt and pension-embezzlement scandal looming -- it is unclear whether Maxwell's death was a suicide, murder by foreign agents, or pure accident. Father: (d. shot by soldiers)
Mother: (d. Auschwitz)
Wife: Elizabeth Meynard
Son: Kevin Maxwell
Son: Ian Maxwell
Daughter: Ghislaine
Pergamon Press Founder & Publisher (1949-70; 1974-91)
Maxwell Communications Corporation Chairman & CEO (1981-91)
Mirror Group Newspapers Chairman (1984-91)
MacMillan Chairman (1998-91)
The New York Daily News Owner (1991)
UK Member of Parliament Buckinghamshire (1964-70)
Labour Party (UK)
Censured by the British High Court (1969)
Autopsy
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