What to Know
It all started with videos of Ghislaine Maxwell from federal prison. When footage of Jeffrey Epstein‘s convicted accomplice showed up from a February 2026 U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing, people were adamant that the woman in the video was not actually Maxwell. Then, someone thought they spotted her, the real Maxwell that is, on a street in Québec.
Some assumed it was Paris, but the area was later confirmed to be the large Canadian province. To thicken the plot even more, after the individual shared the video on TikTok, people commented to claim that another person in the video from Québec is actually Maxwell’s brother. Of course, it’s all wild speculation and conspiracy theories. But right now, conspiracy theories feel pretty real to those who believe them about the people in power.
People really think that was Ghislaine Maxwell in Québec.
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In the TikTok video, someone off-camera, recording the allegedly real Maxwell, approaches her outside of a restaurant. He says, “Ghislaine?” and the woman does look up as though it is her name. She then says she isn’t Ghislaine, and when the user in the video says that he used to buy “hella pizza” from Ghislaine, she apologetically insists she is not the woman he thought she was.
Even those who believe the conspiracies about Maxwell not being in prison and about Epstein not being responsible for his own death can see the resemblance in the video. The woman bears a striking, almost uncanny, resemblance to Maxwell. That led some to claim in the comments of the TikTok that the video is AI, but that hasn’t been proven.
“The way she immediately reacted to her name and then tried to play it off,” someone commented on the TikTok.
Another user wrote, “Looks wayyyyy more like her than whoever they have in prison.”
Sure, we all have a twin somewhere, right? Maybe this woman just happened to draw the unlucky straw and she is nearly identical to a woman who is a convicted sex offender. But some way it’s more than just a wild coincidence.
“You’re not going to look if someone calls you by someone else’s name,” another person pointed out in the comments. “You only do that when it’s your name out of lifelong habit.”
Another person in the video looks like Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother.
The woman who everyone seems to think is Ghislaine is standing next to a man in the video who people claim is her brother, Philip Maxwell. Again, he looks a lot like Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother, and, like the man in the video, Philip Maxwell wears black frame glasses. But would the two of them really risk being seen out in broad daylight? And if this is Ghislaine Maxwell, when was she smuggled out of the United States and into Canada and then Montreal?
As someone pointed out in the comment section under the TikTok, “It’s one thing to have this encounter with someone who looks exactly like Ghislaine Maxwell but to also see someone who looks identical to her brother Philip Maxwell too is something else entirely.”
