In 2005, Harry Mount was feeling lonely in Manhattan. Aged 33, he’d just been appointed as the Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent but, as yet, knew few people in the city. When a friend asked him if he wanted to tag along with him to a party at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house, Mount jumped at the chance. She was, after all, well known as a prominent figure in Manhattan society who’d been photographed with Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and even Pope John Paul II.
