BBC After Robert Maxwell’s secretary revealed how he and Ghislain would greet each other by ‘meowing’ like cats in a new documentary, viewers were in awe.
Carol Bragoli, former secretary of the Mirror Group, appeared on the first episode of House of Maxwell last night, where she opened up about the media tycoon’s bizarre conversation with her daughter.
She recalled an uncomfortable conversation between the pair in which they ‘meow’ at each other for several minutes before engaging in any conversation.
Carol said the media mogul had ‘definitely a different relationship’ with Ghislaine than her siblings, and she could often be found ‘running around the building’ as she pleased. Was.
Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine will greet each other by ‘meowing’, a new documentary has revealed. Robert and Ghislaine are pictured watching the Oxford vs Brighton football match in October 1984
Contributors said the media mogul had ‘definitely a different relationship’ with Ghislain than his siblings. Father and daughter are pictured with their mother Elizabeth at a party on Maxwell’s yacht in 1990
A distraught viewer wrote, ‘The call is not coming to my head ‘meow’ between father and daughter.
Another stunned viewer said: Meow… actually I mean it’s not natural behavior.
‘Omg they were meowing at each other. Talk about weird,’ wrote a third.
The three-part documentary series charts how Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of grooming and trafficking girls under the age of a millionaire’s daughter.
Viewers took to Twitter to comment on the awkward phone conversation, calling the behavior ‘strange’.
Last night’s episode addressed Robert’s creative impact on his family, particularly during the last few years of his life at the helm of his financially struggling publishing empire.
Carol explained that she was tasked with working on the company’s annual report and was asked to sit in a ‘cupboard’ in Maxwell’s office.
She says her phone conversations were always over loud speakers because she ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to hold the device and just ‘forgot it was there’.
He said, ‘He was at his desk and my back was spinning the whole time and I heard everything, all the phone calls, he had many phones.’
Said through reception one day and said “it’s Ghislain” and he says “keep him” and the next thing I heard was “meow”, and he went “meow, meow” and she went “meow”.
Former Mirror Group secretary Carol Bragoli appeared on the new series from House of Maxwell last night, where she opened up about the media tycoon’s bizarre conversation with her daughter.
‘ It went on for about ten meows and he suddenly said, ‘What are you doing? And he said “nothing” and I thought “yeah, that’s right”. He certainly had a different relationship with Ghislain than he did with other people.
Carol remembered Ghislaine as ‘very glamorous’ with ‘very long legs’ and said she ‘walks around the office’ before sitting on the corner of her desk.
The former Sunday Mirror editor, Eve Pollard, described the complicated relationship between Maxwell and their children, revealing that they had a loving but turbulent bond.
She said: ‘She was deeply in love with Ian and Kevin and Ghislain. It was the kind of love that could grab you by the throat as well as the heart, and you never knew which way it would go.’
Pollard recalls Ghislain turning down Robert’s request to work for him at the newspaper, claiming she was always his favorite child.
‘He kept asking if Ghislain had left Oxford, whether I could hire him. I said “I’m running a newspaper and I don’t think she wants to be a journalist”.
Former Sunday Mirror editor Eve Pollard describes the complicated relationship between Maxwell and her children, reveals they had ‘the type of love that hugs you’
When she was young she was very beautiful and smart. It is always said that she was his favorite child.
They talked about the family base at Headington Hall, which became home to media tycoon Robert Maxwell – but is believed to have spent little time at home with loved ones.
“When you go to Headington Hall, at the core of it is Bob’s wife, Betty, and kids,” she said.
‘Bob, often, would barely go home on weekends, or go home for an hour or two, half a day, and then go back to the Sunday Mirror on Saturday nights. You would think that he would live in that lovely home with his kids.
‘And it would have been hard enough sometimes, I mean you want your father to be such a lovely, comfortable, father who loves you unconditionally.’
House of Maxwell is available on BBC iPlayer