Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were planning fertility treatment together, emails show.

Maxwell, the jailed daughter of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has long tried to distance herself from Epstein and maintained that she was unaware about details of his initial sexual abuse case in the mid-2000s.

However, more than 18,000 emails obtained from one of Epstein’s personal accounts by Bloomberg News have shed light on Maxwell’s relationship with the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier.

Not only did they communicate, but she helped strategise over legal issues and the pair even discussed undergoing shared fertility treatment after his sex offending became public.

Among at least 650 emails exchanged by the pair is one in which she gave detailed instructions regarding sperm donation for joint fertility treatment.

She said: “You can do the sample at home”, adding that it “has to be within 90 mins of my procedure” and that “all the ejaculate must be collected”.