Ghislaine Maxwell is serving out a 20-year sentence for acting as a procurer for the most notorious sex trafficker in recent American history â but that doesnât mean she canât enjoy a good game of rounders as much as the next gal in a low-security lockup.
According to a report from the U.K. Daily Mirror published on Friday, Maxwell has become so obsessed with playing softball that her fellow inmates are calling her âDottieâ after Geena Davisâ character in the 1992 film âA League of Their Own,â a highly fictionalized version of womenâs professional baseball during World War II.
âGhislaine is very popular among the girls. She is very sociable,â a source inside Floridaâs Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee jail told the Mirror.
âStraight away, she began mixing with others taking part in all manner of activities. She almost won musical chairs one day, getting down to the last two.
âBut itâs her love of softball she seems to most enjoy. Whenever there is a game, Ghislaine want to play,â the source added. âWhen she took to the field, they called her âDottie.â It stuck.â
In the 1992 movie, Davisâ character â Dorothy âDottieâ Hinson â was an all-American girl waiting for her husband to return from the war when she was noticed by a scout while playing for her local dairy. Sheâs considered one of the leagueâs stars, but quits the team when her husband returns from action.
However, she returns for the last game of the womenâs World Series, and wouldnât you know it, her team ⌠well, actually, her team loses, but itâs mostly a plot device so that her kid sister, who was playing for the rival team, can have her moment in the sun. Youâve seen this wholesome family entertainment a million times before, and itâs only slightly elevated above the level of âThe Mighty Ducksâ franchise by a surprisingly decent performance by Tom Hanks as a bitter, bottle-drenched, washed-up former major leaguer.
The film, you will not be surprised to learn, doesnât include any socialite-turned-convicted sex offenders, nor is sex trafficking and the abuse of young girls a thing.
However, Maxwell âis now a key player in her B South unitâs softball team, beating bitter rivals A South unit and another wing,â according to the Mirror. My assumption is that this story isnât optioned by anyone in Hollywood.
Then again, playing softball and musical chairs isnât the only exercise the 60-year-old Maxwell has been getting on the Prison grounds: Sheâs also taken up jogging.
âDressed in a standard-issue grey T-shirt, matching sweat shorts and trainers, the convicted teen sex trafficker pounds out the miles, locked up and locked alone in her thoughts,â the Mirror reported Thursday.
âOnly the presence of uniformed warders and roll upon roll of razor-sharp barbered wire provides a reminder that the women dressed in similar attire are actual prisoners.â
âGhislaine is incredibly fit,â a source told the Mirror.
âShe runs almost every day, and when not jogging on the track, she will walk with one of her friends.
âFor her age, she is incredibly active and does a 40-minute session, completing lap after lap without stopping before she needs to be back inside,â the source added. âShe is happy to be allowed out in the open once again, where she has at least some semblance of freedom.â
She also works in the law library at the Prison, according to the article.
In July, the New York Post reported that sheâd been moved to the cushy prison in Florida, where âinmates enjoy movies, a running track and even yoga in the yard.â
âThe disgraced socialite, who complained to the UN about human rights abuses during her two years in custody in Brooklyn, was expected to serve her time in the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut â the Prison that inspired âOrange Is the New Black,'â the Post noted.
âHowever, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to The Post that the 60-year-old madam was instead moved Friday to FCI Tallahassee, a âlow-security federal correctional institutionâ in Florida.
Again, let me emphasize that this is someone who was convicted of grooming and procuring teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. Those crimes are so serious that her release date isnât until 2037. Iâm not saying that she has to serve out her sentence in Solzhenitsyn-esque conditions, but one wouldnât necessarily mind her being in one of those hour-in-the-yard-a-day-style supermaxes.
There has to be some happy medium between âThe Gulag Archipelagoâ and âA League of Their Own,â after all. Itâs clear, if reports are true, that authorities very much havenât found it.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
