Ghislaine Maxwell ‘rested high-heeled boot’ on Boris Johnson’s thigh after meeting him at university

Ghislaine Maxwell rested her "high-heeled boot" on Boris Johnson's thigh at his Oxford college, his sister Rachel has claimed.

Ms Johnson, who attended Oxford at the same time as her brother in the late Eighties, said she once encountered the future prime minister and the socialite together, confirming  for the first time that the pair met at university. 

Ms Maxwell is now on trial in the United States for grooming women and young girls in association with Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex trafficker.

Writing in The Spectator, Ms Johnson said she now found it difficult not to feel sorry for Ms Maxwell.

“I intersected briefly with her at Oxford,” she wrote.

“As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day in search of its subsidised breakfast granola-and-Nescafé offering and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh.”

© Leon Neal/Getty Images Ghislaine Maxwell and Boris Johnson met at Oxford University, the Prime Minister's sister Rachel said - Leon Neal/Getty Images

Mr Johnson’s sister said she then went to a party at the family home of Ms Maxwell and Robert Maxwell, the media magnate, in north Oxford.

“She gave me a pitying glance but I did manage to snag an invite to her party in Headington Hill Hall – even though I wasn't in the same college as her and Boris,” Ms Johnson said.

“I have a memory of her father, Bob, coming out in a towelling robe and telling us all to go home.”

In apparent barb directed at her brother, she added that “fairweather friends” of the alleged sex criminal “would not want to reveal they went to a Ghislaine Maxwell party”.

“You only know who your real chums are when you’re in the gutter,” she said.

A photo that purportedly showed Mr Johnson and Ms Maxwell together, published online last year, was later proven to be false.

'Weak, frail' Ghislaine Maxwell faces trial

Mr Johnson has never spoken about his connection to Ms Maxwell. Downing Street declined to comment on the revelation on Wednesday.

The pair both studied at Balliol, Oxford, where Mr Johnson read classics and she read modern history with languages.

On graduation, she worked for her billionaire father, who owned a string of newspapers including the Daily Mirror.

She rose to prominence as an associate of Mr Epstein, her former boyfriend, and is now on trial for sex crimes linked to his procurement and trafficking of underage girls. She denies the accusations. The counts against her carry sentences of up to 80 years.

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, published last week, Ms Maxwell claimed she has been forced to eat “rotten food” in the New York City prison where she has been detained.

“I have been assaulted and abused for almost a year and a half,” she said.

“I am weak, I am frail. I have no stamina. I am tired. I don’t even have shoes which fit properly.

“They feed me rotten food. One apple had maggots in it. I have not been allowed to exercise.”

The jury selection for Ms Maxwell’s trial has begun. She has been set a trial date of November 29. 

Reference: The Teloegraph: Tony Diver