Ghislaine Maxwell was determined to marry her boss – Jeffrey Epstein. The claim was made by Christina Oxenberg, a cousin to the British royal family who briefly knew the socialite. "Jeffrey paid her very well," the 58-year-old told Fox News. "She started working for him pretty much immediately after her father died. I think she saw him as her savior. She wanted everyone to believe they were a couple. She wanted to marry Jeffrey. I have no idea if Jeffrey knew about this. My suspicion is that he did because he [wasn’t] a dummy." Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia – Prince Andrew’s second cousin. Oxenberg has previously detailed her upbringing in a serialized memoir on Patreon. And most recently, she wrote a book titled "Trash: Encounters with Ghislaine Maxwell." According to Oxenberg, the two women first met in 1990. But fast forward to 1997, Maxwell attempted to hire her as a ghostwriter for an autobiography. This was after she wrote a book titled "Royal Blue." "She told me that her motivation for getting that book made was for Jeffrey to see her in a different light," Oxenberg alleged. "It would elevate her status. She actually said, ‘This will elevate me in Jeffrey’s eyes. And this way, he will marry me. I want him to marry me.'" Maxwell, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges that prosecutors say show that she and Epstein were "partners in crime" in the sexual abuse of teenage girls. The defense has countered by claiming she’s being made a scapegoat for 66-year-old Epstein, who killed himself in his New York City jail cell in 2019 as he awaited his sex trafficking trial. Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father Robert Maxwell. But in 1991, the billionaire fell off his yacht – the Lady Ghislaine – in the Canary Islands and died in what some saw as an accident and others a suicide. Investors later discovered his wealth was an illusion: He had diverted hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds to prop up his empire.