Million-Dollar Retreat Was Ghislaine Maxwell’s New Hampshire Hideaway

(Bloomberg) -- “An amazing retreat for the nature lover who also wants total privacy.”

That was part of the listing for the $1.07 million home that matches the U.S. government's description of where federal agents arrested Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday morning on charges she played a central role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls. The 156-acre property sold in December to Boston-based Granite Realty LLC, according to public records.

Prosecutors say Maxwell spent the past year “hiding out in locations in New England,” and bought a home in Bradford, New Hampshire, in December through a “carefully anonymized LLC.” A search of property sales matching that description yields this sole listing.

The property is listed in a detention memo in which prosecutors urged that Maxwell not be given bail. They cited her substantial assets in arguing that she poses a high risk of flight.

“The government has identified more than 15 different bank accounts held by or associated with the defendant from 2016 to the present, and during that same period, the total balances of those accounts have ranged from a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million.” The memo also states that Maxwell has previously reported having one or more overseas accounts with more than a million dollars in them.

She sold a New York City property in 2016 for $15 million, and shortly thereafter deposited $14 million into an account, prosecutors say.

They also cited Maxwell's extensive international connections, noting she made 15 overseas trips in the last three years to places including the United Kingdom, Japan and Qatar.

The four-bedroom, four-bath house in New Hampshire features an equipment barn, a six-burner Viking stove and two Wolf ovens. The property is 90 minutes from Boston and four hours from New York City, according to the listing.

Bradford had a population of 1,703 in 2018, according to U.S. census data, and a median household income of $64,167, above the national average. It's a magnet for outdoors enthusiasts, with kayaking, fishing and hunting during the summer and skiing in the winter. The town was almost equally split between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters in 2016, with the president winning 485 votes to 442 for his adversary.

The real estate agent who sold the home, Margaret Weathers of Sotheby's International Realty, didn't immediately respond to a voicemail seeking comment.

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