Financier Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.

After his arrest, investigators' findings and unsealed court documents detail the extensive network of employees that federal prosecutors say targeted and recruited underage girls for sexual relationships with the financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein's onetime reported girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has come back into focus as the woman accused of being his madam and of being instrumental in setting up a network of victims and other employees who found them.

Here's what we know about Maxwell, an Oxford-educated socialite with ties to Epstein.

Visit INSIDER's homepage for more stories.

Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges after weeks of investigation revealed how the financier's network of employees facilitated his alleged sex trafficking and his close ties to high-profile figures in politics, business, and British royalty.

Prosecutors alleged in newly unsealed court documents that Epstein used an extensive network of employees and close associates to target and recruit underage girls for sexual relationships.

One of Epstein's alleged employees, the British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been the subject of allegations for years that she was Epstein's top accomplice, accused of recruiting victims and abusing them alongside the convicted sex offender.

Despite not being named in the most recent indictment of Epstein and denying any wrongdoing, Maxwell has previously been named as Epstein's madam in testimony given to media outlets and in legal documents created in a defamation suit against her.

As a result, the Oxford graduate has come under a sharper spotlight nearly two decades after first appearing alongside New York highfliers like Donald Trump, who was then a real-estate developer.

Here's how the socialite became infamous.