Dead child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein may have his name in the title of this three-parter alongside his very much alive co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but to paraphrase an iconic blonde royal, 'there were three crooks in this story'. The shadow of Epstein certainly looms large over Ghislaine and her ultimate fate (to be decided in court this autumn unless, you know, something unforeseen happens to her in prison), but her father Robert is the third element driving this monstrous narrative.

This is really a story of the two men who dominated Ghislaine's life, and who both left her in the lurch by ending their lives at their own hand or, as the arch conspiracy theorists would have you believe, getting themselves murdered to stop them spilling the beans on powerful interests. As we hear from her former friends and business associates, Robert Maxwell was a tyrant at home, bullying his kids and ignoring his wife in order to maintain control over them. Ghislaine, though, was the classic daddy's girl: having taken over Oxford FC, he immediately installed her on the board, the first woman to become a director in British football.

How she went from there to becoming embroiled with a New York child-abuser is a long, convoluted story that the makers have boiled down to less than three hours. Sadly, a large chunk of it was already told in last year's Netflix series, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. In a documentary about the most awful excesses, betrayals, lies and abuses that millionaires could perpetrate on the vulnerable, it seems odd that tiny injections of humour would be allowed a place. But in the opening section we have a montage of newsreaders and pundits finding different ways to pronounce 'Ghislaine' while the theme tune and recurring musical motif simply demands that you think of Succession.

Ghislaine, you see, came from a media background where her dad controlled The Daily Mirror during the 80s with an iron fist while dipping his fingers into a pension pot and ruining countless lives. In the murky shadows, her brothers Ian and Kevin were being groomed to follow in his footsteps and they too were left high and dry to deny wrongdoing when pops was found floating face down in the Canary Islands. Whatever her fate, this story should belong in the hands of those who were degraded and destroyed by Epstein and his enablers. The exact degree to which Ghislaine Maxwell was responsible for this terror will be told in the near future, with many a politician, royal, and business leader awaiting that trial with alarm.

Sky Documentaries, Sunday 27 June, 9pm.