# Robert Maxwell > [!note] Stub — fill out British media baron who died mysteriously at sea in November 1991, amid allegations of ties to intelligence services (variously Mossad, the KGB, and others) and the looting of his companies' pension funds. Dave Troy flags his death as one of the markers of the post-Soviet moment in the [[The Octopus]] series. Father of Ghislaine Maxwell. Expand.