Ghislaine Maxwell speaks from behind bars for the first time in the Mail on Sunday: Heiress tells how 'creepy' guards have forced her to stop taking showers, rats live in her cell and why she has no hope of a fair trial

Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken from behind bars to claim she's been forced to stop taking showers because of the 'creepy guards' who stand and stare at her.

In a world exclusive published in tomorrow's Mail on Sunday, the heiress has spoken of the hell of her life in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, saying that conditions are so bad a rat would sit beside an open sewer in her cell as she went to the toilet.

She said: 'I used to go to the loo with an open sewer drain and a friendly rat would regularly visit.