India, Feb. 9 -- British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell entered the United States in the early 1990s on an H-1B visa sponsored by Jeffrey Epstein, newly-unsealed documents by the US Department of Justice show. The daughter of media tycoon Robert Maxwell would go on to become Epstein's closest associate, helping him recruit underage girls for his sex trafficking operation.

Ghislaine Maxwell, 64, is a former British socialite who became close to Epstein in the 1990s. She was born in France and raised in the UK, where she lived in a 53-bedroom mansion along with her parents and siblings.

Maxwell is the youngest daughter of Elisabeth, a French-born scholar, and British media tycoon Robert Maxwell. Educated at Oxford University, Maxwell worked fo...