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Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (1923-1991)
Robert Maxwell had a formal, business relationship with McGraw‑Hill in 1989: the two companies formed a 50/50 joint venture combining school‑book operations and signed a 15‑year standstill agreement t...
Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire in the 1980s and early 1990s included several imprints and companies that produced textbooks and school materials — most prominently Macmillan (U.S.) after Maxwell a...
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ties to Israel’s intelligence services remain unproven: public reporting shows a mix of circumstantial links, third‑party assertions by former intelligence figures, and denia...
Robert Maxwell’s principal and documented U.S. school‑textbook holding was , which he acquired in the late 1980s and which formed the core of his U.S. textbook interests; that asset was later folded i...
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have acted as a commercial conduit for a doctored version of the PROMIS case‑management software — selling or facilitating distribution of an Israeli‑modified “Enha...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook holdings centered on his 1988–89 acquisitions and deals: he bought Macmillan Inc. in 1988 for roughly $2.6 billion and acquired Science Research Associates (SRA) from IB...
Robert Maxwell was found dead in the Atlantic near the Canary Islands on 5 November 1991; at an inquest later that year coroners recorded death by heart attack combined with accidental drowning while ...
Claims that Ghislaine Maxwell had formal ties to Israel’s Mossad are longstanding but unproven: many reports trace the allegation back to her father Robert Maxwell’s alleged intelligence links and to ...
Reporting and commentary allege Robert Maxwell used his ownership of major publishing houses to influence schoolbook content, but contemporary fact-checking and publisher statements find that he inser...
Robert Maxwell built his academic-publishing foothold by buying a small scientific house in 1951—three-quarters of Butterworth‑Springer—which he renamed Pergamon Press and expanded through aggressive ...
Available reporting links Robert Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein mainly through family and social connections: Ghislaine Maxwell (Robert’s daughter) was Epstein’s close associate and was convicted of sex‑t...
Robert Maxwell has long been portrayed in reporting and books as having "known links" or suspected contacts with MI6, the Soviet KGB and Israel’s Mossad; contemporary press and intelligence-files repo...
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have had ties to Israeli intelligence, particularly the Mossad, but the . Major allegations include Maxwell acting as a Mossad asset who facilitated transfer of int...
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have had , but available accounts are contested and uneven in documentary support; sensational biographies assert explicit ties while mainstream profiles stop short...
Robert Maxwell is repeatedly alleged to have been involved in the PROMIS software affair by distributing a deliberately altered, or "bugged," version of the PROMIS database program that purportedly en...
Publicly available evidence tying Jeffrey Epstein to Israeli intelligence is circumstantial and contested: investigative outlets and commentators point to close personal ties with former Israeli offic...
Robert Maxwell, the British media proprietor who died in 1991, entered a formal joint venture with McGraw-Hill in 1989 that combined major K–12 textbook assets into Macmillan/McGraw‑Hill School Publis...
Claims that Ghislaine Maxwell had operational ties to Israel’s Mossad rest mainly on testimony, books and pundit pieces—not on public government confirmations. Key pieces of the allegation trace to fo...
Robert Maxwell’s involvement in the textbook and academic-publishing world centered on the acquisition and expansion of Macmillan and Pergamon, giving him control of major educational and scientific i...
Multiple contemporary accounts and retrospectives report longstanding allegations that Robert Maxwell had ties to Israeli intelligence (Mossad) alongside claims of links to MI6 and the KGB, but the so...