Scott Bergson "want power"-until the FBI knocked on the door.

In the weeks leading up to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019, his alleged accomplice and ex-girlfriend, British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, was easily on the arm of his secret husband on the North Shore of Massachusetts Attended a social gathering.

Maxwell was once a regular member of Manhattan’s elite circle and now leads a peaceful life as an environmental activist, suburban stepmother and spouse of Scott Bogson, an entrepreneur and former Coast Guard Official, 14 years younger than her.

According to a person who participated in this special mixer, Maxwell politely introduced himself before heading to the event bar. Bergson then saw an opportunity to brag to this acquaintance about the private dinner he had with Maxwell and former President Bill Clinton. "This is just lunch for the three of them," the person told Bergson Daily Beast. "He tried to impress me. He was famous for his alias."

The 46-year-old Bergson enjoys being Maxwell’s plus one, passing by the upper-class people and gaining the opportunity to enter the upper-class society-including at the 2014 vegetarian dinner with Clinton and his men in Los Angeles, and according to A report from "Vice President", a super-exclusive campfire dinner in 2018, a retreat hosted by Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos. Many acquaintances and colleagues of Bergson told The Daily Beast that the divorced father usually referred to Maxwell as his romantic "partner" rather than his wife. She often visits his previous company, CargoMetrics, with the couple's thoroughbred Vizslas, and spends time taking care of his two children.

But the family happiness of the two was broken in August 2019 when Epstein committed suicide in prison. The FBI and the international media have now lost their high-profile defendants and turned their attention to Maxwell. Maxwell and the pervert The relationship of wealth managers has made headlines over the years.

Now, Bogson’s former friends and colleagues-including those who know Maxwell is his significant other-tell "Daily Beast" that they are closely watching whether he publicly supported her during her criminal trial, opening a court statement It is scheduled to be held on November 29th. See if Maxwell walks back into his arms freely.

In December last year, a personal profile from a business insider indicated that Bergson wanted to distance himself from the 59-year-old socialite, who was accused of soliciting girls for Epstein. According to media reports, Bergson stated that he wrote a book proposal that aroused the interest of publishers, but "he questioned whether it was worth it to link his legacy to Maxwell so closely."

Bergson did not reply to the message left by the Daily Beast.

When contacted by the Beast reporter in August 2019, he denied dating Maxwell and said: "Gisline is not in my house. She is a friend-a former friend."

Maxwell's brother confirmed that Borgerson was her husband in a recent interview with Insider, but said that the family did not know about their union until she went to prison. "We were not very shocked, but we were surprised to find that she was married to someone else in the world at the same time," Ian Maxwell said.

In July 2020, federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused Maxwell of recruiting and torturing three underage girls for Epstein from 1994 to 1997, and testified under oath in a lawsuit filed by Epstein victims in 2016. (Earlier this year, a judge ruled that Maxwell would be tried separately for the two counts of perjury.) The government later added a fourth victim and sex trafficking charges to its case, claiming that Maxwell began to fight the girl when she was 14 years old. She underwent plastic surgery. From 2001 to 2004.

At Maxwell's initial bail hearing, the prosecutor threw another blockbuster: The cosmopolitan must be married, but she refused to reveal the name of her husband. His spouse is now widely reported as Borgson, and he has stood up to Maxwell's next bail request in December-albeit anonymously. "The person described in the criminal charge is not [Ghislaine] we know," the spouse wrote in an edited letter to the court. "I have never witnessed anything disproportionate to Gislaine; on the contrary, the Ghislaine I know is a wonderful and caring person." He added, "I believe in the crimes of Gislaine and Epstein. Nothing.” In the letter, the husband stated that he was not a co-signer of Maxwell’s first bail application because he tried to avoid “violent media attacks”.

In fact, since his romance with Maxwell became tabloid material, Bergson has kept a low profile. After Maxwell's arrest, he resigned from CargoMetrics, a Boston maritime analysis company he co-founded in 2010. The company said that Bergson did not want to "be a distraction from the work he believed in." In his recently disabled LinkedIn profile, Bergson stated that he is now the president and chief operating officer of an "invisible startup" focused on financial management and business planning.

"I don't think he wants to leave CargoMetrics," a former colleague told Bergson's Daily Beast, adding that it remains to be seen whether he will overcome the detours he has apparently gone through with Maxwell in his career.

"In a rational world, this should have a bad influence on him, but this world is far away from rationality."

Bergson was the married father of two children when he met Maxwell in 2013, reportedly at the first Arctic Circle meeting in Iceland. Speakers that year included the then Google chairman Eric Schmidt, the philanthropist and former owner of the Anchorage Daily News Alice Rogoff and Senator Lisa Mukowski, as well as from Ge A video speech with Hillary Clinton.

When the future lovebirds took a group photo at the summit, Bergson held a wine glass and the wedding ring could be seen on his finger. Maxwell was there as president of the TerraMar project, her obscure marine non-profit organization, and Burgson was an organizer of the Arctic Circle and a former maritime policy expert for the Foreign Relations Committee.

A person who has worked with TerraMar told the New York Times that Maxwell had a special liking for Bergson and repeatedly praised him for his "hot" and "brilliant talent." She also told friends that when he was actually a Coast Guard veteran, he was a "seal team."

As revealed by "The Daily Beast", Maxwell's relationship with Bergson is so close that in February 2014, she took him to the Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles to have dinner with Clinton. Former Clinton World staff and late producer Steve Bing also joined them.

Four months later, Bergson filed for divorce from his first wife, Rebecca, on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. In court documents, Rebecca accused Bergson of "has a history of alcoholism, physical and verbal abuse, and extreme desire for control", while Bergson claimed that Rebecca was a devout Christian, "with extreme Use religion in a way, especially religions related to children". . "

As the relationship between Bergson and Maxwell developed, news reports about well-known investors in his startups followed, including Google’s Schmidt and Israeli billionaire Idan Over, who were in San Tro Pei collaborated with Bergson. According to Bloomberg News, Offer and Bergson debated the colonial history of the United Kingdom and the United States at the August 2016 evening party, which was crowded with “social stars”.

Earlier that year, Bergson presented himself as a humble outsider born in Missouri. He told Institutional Investor, "There are many things that motivate me, including—if I tell the truth—my They have a lot of bargaining chips on their shoulders to beat prep schools, Ivy League schools, and MBA crowds. They are born to make money, but they are not smarter than others; they just have more patinas and connections." Bergson also boasted His top employees: "They are all self-made; no one is born."

A former CargoMetrics employee said that they remembered that Borgerson discussed Maxwell's non-profit organization and wanted to use the resources of his startup to support it, but such a plan never materialized. They added that Bergson was “very personable and very good at building relationships with rich people...so I can imagine that he will at least be attracted by the relationships she can help him build.”

In addition, another acquaintance said that it was obvious that Maxwell let Bergson into the institution, and in return he was her arm candy: healthy, 6 feet 5 inches, veteran. "He wants power, and she wants power," the person familiar with the matter said, adding that Maxwell and Bergson were dating her ex-boyfriend and Gateway co-founder Ted Waitt. (As reported by the Daily Beast, it is well known that Maxwell would name Schmidt and Bezos when courting TerraMar supporters. A researcher said that when he attended a 2013 dinner at Maxwell’s Manhattan home At that time, it was mentioned that Maxwell was “working hard to overcome public relations issues, and her focus on the ocean was a way to reintroduce her to New York and American political institutions.”)

Nonetheless, acquaintances pointed out that Bergson knew about Maxwell’s history of working for Epstein and expressed his belief that she had nothing to do with his crimes.

Many of Burgson’s colleagues did not know that Maxwell was quietly resolving her past relationship with the multi-millionaire sex offender.

From 2015 to 2018, Maxwell filed separate lawsuits in New York with Virginia Juffrey and Sarah Ransom, both of whom claimed that she forced them to have sex with the deceased financier. Both cases were settled in accordance with confidentiality clauses.

Friends told the "Daily Beast" that they noticed that Bogson had changed. After Bogson started dating Maxwell, they described him as a charismatic self-promoter. One person said: “He started to dress differently and speak differently,” adding that Bergson had changed from an unfashionable Midwestern man into an “almost professional style”.

Maxwell would walk into the CargoMetrics building with her and Borgerson's dog, because the couple had a small place a few blocks away from the office. "I remember she said she was very happy to leave the social circle in New York," the person added. "I don't know how sincere she was at the time. I didn't realize how much she was hiding at the time."

The person said that after Epstein's death, "everyone was asking,'Where is Gislaine Maxwell?' I know exactly where she is: Manchester by the sea."

When the “Daily Mail” exposed Maxwell's whereabouts—the $2.4 million seaside mansion she and Bergson shared in the old fishing town—the little-known tech founder became the so-called "lady." 'S lover was pushed into the spotlight.

Reporters appeared at the manor in Massachusetts. In August 2019, Bergson told the police that he would deploy a "level four force" to anyone who broke into his home. Bergson is using police language for non-lethal reactions, including taser guns, strikes and neck grips.

According to the “Daily Mail” report, Bergson sent an email to the local police chief, stating that his “military/intelligence friend” would guard his house while he was away. The timetable of rotation conducts physical patrols of my property". In follow-up news, Bergson said he was heading to New Hampshire for a family camping trip.

The FBI will eventually use cell phone data from a device communicating with Bergson to track Maxwell to a mansion in New Hampshire. Maxwell purchased the 156-acre property in December 2019 through an anonymous limited liability company for approximately $1 million in cash.

When the Maxwell indictment was announced, William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York branch, stated that investigators were "secretly monitoring" the socialite. He "slid into a gorgeous property in New Hampshire and continued to live a privileged life." At the same time, her victims are living in the trauma they caused many years ago."

The hideout in Merrimack County has a locked gate and private security. When they came to the property, FBI agents found Maxwell through the window and asked her to open the door, but she allegedly fled to another room. The prosecutor said in a court document that the agent also found a mobile phone wrapped in tin foil on the table, which appeared to be used to escape police investigation.

U.S. Assistant Attorney Alison Mo said at Maxwell’s initial bail hearing that before buying the secluded house, Maxwell and a male partner used the pseudonym “Scott and Janet” when talking to a real estate agent. Marshall". The couple also has a British accent.

Scott told the real estate agent that he retired from the British army and wrote a book, and Janet said she was a journalist seeking privacy. "They told the broker that they wanted to buy real estate quickly via wire transfer and they were setting up a limited liability company," Mo told the court.

After Maxwell was arrested, the real estate agent saw a photo in the media and realized that she was the woman who called herself Janet.

Whether the real estate agent met with Bogson has not been publicly confirmed.

According to reports, Maxwell married Bergson in 2016-in the same year, she sold her townhouse in New York for $15 million and moved to Massachusetts. It is confirmed that the marriage record of the couple’s union has not been made public.

"The sale of Ms. Maxwell's apartment in New York coincided with her intention to...live with her spouse," her lawyer wrote in a December court filing.

At about the same time, the socialite transferred most of her assets to a trust controlled by her husband and another unnamed party. “All the assets in the trust were distributed to Ms. Maxwell’s spouse in 2019,” said a memo supporting Maxwell’s bail request, adding that the couple’s net worth was approximately $22.5 million.

Maxwell is willing to put all of her and Bergson’s assets-including the couple's main residence and two other residences-at risk to ensure her release during the trial.

"For Ms. Maxwell to escape, she must abandon her spouse," her lawyer argued in a court document. "During the global pandemic, she will not risk destroying the lives and finances of her most cherished fugitives."

"In fact, from the time Epstein was arrested to the first bail hearing, every action Ms. Maxwell took was to protect her spouse... from harassment, financial harm, and personal danger," the document said. .

"If Ms. Maxwell violates the bail conditions she didn't intend to do," the document added, "she will leave her spouse... almost nothing."

However, the prosecutor argued that Maxwell posed an "extreme escape risk" and questioned whether her husband was enough to keep her in the country. Court documents show that they pointed to the "obviously inconsistent statements" that Maxwell said during the arrest, including that she was "divorcing her husband." The government pointed out that Maxwell’s bail package recommended that she live with someone other than her spouse.

In response, Maxwell's lawyers argued that she and her husband believed that the divorce was just to put a distance between them so that she could "protect him... from the terrible consequences of being associated with her."

The government also accused the husband of refusing to appear in court in July 2020. "Although it may be understandable for a friend to avoid public appearances," the prosecutor wrote, "but the spouse's desire to distance herself in this way—especially when coupled with the defendant’s status of their relationship—weakened her Assert that her marriage is a bond that allows her to stay in the United States."

Prosecutors stated in a court document that Maxwell had “transferred most of her assets through trust in the past five years” and added that they believed she “has used the process of transferring assets as a means to hide her. True wealth."

The U.S. assistant attorney added that Maxwell’s financial report showed that she brought more than 20 million U.S. dollars to the marriage, but her husband only contributed 200,000 U.S. dollars. The prosecutor added that since most of the spouse’s assets come from Maxwell, “if the defendant runs away, he will not lose his money”.

In a statement to Insider last month, Ian Maxwell said he did not know whether his sister and Bergson were still together.

The siblings said he believed that Maxwell retired from Bergson to protect him and his children from the media. "The kids want to go to school," Ian Maxwell said. "Father wants to keep doing this. She said,'Listen, I can't let you go through that; I just want to keep a low profile for a while.'"

Bergson did not attend any of Maxwell’s pre-trial hearings, and it is unclear whether he will appear in New York when his wife faces the jury.

He was last photographed in July 2020, a few weeks after Maxwell was detained, on the terrace of his Manchester mansion by the sea, with his Vizsla by his side. The Daily Mail published these pictures below the headline: “Gislain Maxwell’s frustrated lover Scott Bergson was discovered for the first time since his arrest-still caring for her faithful dog.”

A group of Bogson said that the court’s refusal to bail Maxwell was “real politics” and her imprisonment put pressure on the tech founder.

"He is an amazing man, an entrepreneur, who once worked in the Coast Guard-a man of the whole America," this friend told The Daily Beast. "He was completely blinded by all this."

Additional reporting by Emily Sugarman

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