On the night of November 4, 1991, the Lady Ghislaine, one of the world's biggest yachts, was at sea.
Despite the size of the Christmas turkey — often about 40 lb — there was another golden rule no one dared disobey: Betty always gave half the turkey to Maxwell, while everyone else had to share the rest.
One — Abuse Victim To Abuser — Robert Maxwell was known to treat his own wife, Betty, and their children with utter disdain and to have made their lives — though apparently on the surface gilded — hellish.