By Tom Sims, Naomi Rovnick, John O’Donnell and Lawrence White

IN rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156‑acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.

Behind the cash purchase of the $1.1 million home in December 2019 were funds sent by Swiss banking giant UBS on Maxwell’s ​behalf a month earlier, documents in a cache of files released by the Department of Justice related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein show. The money then cascaded through a web of trusts and banks to buy the secluded property as she sought to go into hiding.

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