A true-crime podcast examining the life and times of Ghislaine Maxwell is being adapted for TV. The rights to Hunting Ghislaine, from Brit radio station LBC and radio and outdoor media giant Global, has been picked by Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films, with plans to turn it into a limited scripted series.
Launched in November 2020 and written and presented by award-winning investigative journalist and author John Sweeney (BBC's Panorama, The Observer), the six-part podcast was co-commissioned by Global and The Story Lab, part of dentsu.
It tells the story of Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced billionaire media tycoon Robert Maxwell and former partner of notorious convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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