Hard G, soft G, which is which? Girl, giraffe, which one has a hard G? I never can remember, if I ever knew.
I’m suspecting the name is pronounced with neither, but more like zh, à la française.
NYTimes article does add MBS - did we know they knew each other too? That dude can get a dissident reporter chopped up in an embassy, seems he can do this too…
Here’s the article without the paywall https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-jeffrey-epstein-admitted-knew-082004627.html
Another describing his original money making schemes: https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epstein-trail-ruined-lives-122344963.html;_ylt=AwrXgCMI8FJdhwQAxQPQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByb2lvbXVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg–
Ghislaine was born in France so it would be logical to be pronounced as the French do. The “h” is there to tell you it’s a hard, not a soft G. If you want to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiyL8oTwEvI
Taking pronunciation tips from Youtube (unless the clip is of her saying, "Hello, I’m Ghislaine Maxwell). is akin to expecting a grammatically accurate translation via Google translate. The link does not provide an accurate pronunciation.
It is a hard g, but the s is silent. guh-LAYNE
Girl is hard G. Giraffe is soft g. The name is pronounced gee-LANE. The g is hard.
I think I would trust @skieurope most when it comes to pronunciation!
According to this , it could be pronounced in two ways:
http://www.nancy.cc/2016/05/03/how-to-pronounce-french-names/
But according to the rules of French I learned, the masculine form of the name should not have a hard n as we know it (think French version of Alain = a.lɛ̃);
Any native French speakers here? 
I love Popehat. His latest:
“These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him. Epstein was incarcerated in the United States of America, and this is how the United States of America, the mightiest and richest nation there is or ever has been, treats incarcerated people. When you say, “There is no way that guards could be so reckless, so indifferent, so malicious as to just let someone as important as Epstein die,” this is how 32 Americans respond. Many, many more could respond in kind.”
It’s a French first name and has two accepted pronunciations: ghee-lane (Len) and gee- slane (Len). The first one is considered more power less, the second one more working class, so since she’s a socialite I’m guessing the first one is the correct one.
Type up Ghislaine Chenu in YouTube?
Not a native, but I’ve spoken it for 20 years.
The French grammatical rule is that “g” before a consonant or before “a” “o” or “u” is a hard g. “G” before “e”“i” or “y” is a soft g. So strict rules would say that “Ghis” rhymes with the French pronunciation of the name “Guy” or the first syllable of "Guillaume. "
However, pronunciation of names is not always so strict. Just as 2 American women will pronounce their name of “Andrea” differently, 2 French speakers will pronounce their name of Ghislaine differently. The hard g is more common, but the soft g is not uncommon, particularly in Québec.
Having given the mini French lesson, I interpreted the original question as “How does Ghislaine Maxwell pronounce her name?”, so nothing I said about French pronunciation in this post applies to her. Because as I answered in an earlier post, she pronounces her name guh-LAYNE.
- first/more upper class (typo!!!)
Well the head of the MCC–prison where Epstein was held–has been replaced and 2 guards have been put on leave.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/warden-reassigned-manhattan-jail-where-jeffrey-epstein-died-2-guards-n1041951
@“Cardinal Fang”
Thanks for the link to the Ken White article. Read it and heard his voice the entire time.
@jonri seems like the scapegoating is beginning…
I assumed it would be blamed on guards. Nothing to see here folks; let’s just move along. I also heard the fbi just recently raided his island. He was dead and it was quite awhile since his arrest. I feel like that gave people plenty of time to clear out the place.
Not all of us have some early Christianity-inspired aversion to suicide or think it is sinful and must be stopped at all times.
Ghislaine has had quite the life. Her billionaire father is a notorious crook who committed suicide when he ran his businesses into the ground. So she moved to NYC and started hanging out with Epstein who appears to have bought her apartment. This woman has been around plenty unsavory (but rich) characters, it appears… Google her father Robert Maxwell, there’s an eye-popping Vanity Fair article after his death in the early 90s.
Not the issue. The victims wanted him to face his accusers and to be held accountable for his despicable actions. He cannot be held accountable if he is dead.
I do think that one job of the prison guards is to stop inmates from killing themselves while in prison. Yes, “stopped at all times” while in custody.