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Can this be verified?

Hard to verify outright, but here's the circumstantial evidence in favor of it being Ghislaine:

  • The account has posted near-daily until Maxwell's arrest on July 1st.

  • One gap in posting was December 7th, 2011 to December 10th, 2011, which is exactly when the Kleiner Perkins party occurred. This is the party where future Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao admitted via twitter that she saw Ghislaine at said party but didn't want to have a photo taken with her because she knew about Ghislaine supplying underage girls for sex.

  • Another gap in posting occurred from August 7th, 2013 to August 10th, 2013, which matches up very well with Ghislaine's mother's death (August 7th, 2013).

  • Another gap in posting occurred between October 11th, 2013 to October 13th, 2013, which matches up with Ghislaine's speech in a Plenary session on October 12th, 2013, which required travel.

  • Maxwellhill opted to post this thing about how child porn should be decriminalized. An interesting top response was from Goatstein (Epstein?), who decided to write out what the link was saying in shorter form, likely because this user knew people would avoid exposing themselves to a site that promoted child porn.

  • The reddit user mentioned their birthday is in December, which matches with Ghislaine Maxwell.

  • Accounting for time zones, maxwellhill appeared to be posting within the same timezone as Ghislaine was, assuming they were awake and active during normal hours of the day.

One thing that should be remembered is that, now that this has been publicized, it is possible for Reddit to crack open the account and put someone else in control of it, in order to hide that it was Ghislaine Maxwell for all these years.

All pictures used can also be accessed through this cluster link.

Why would she spend time on reddit instead of doing other things?

When you're rich enough, literally everything is secured without needing effort. What do you think these people do with all that spare time? They find ways to make themselves busy. Some find new hobbies/distractions, others seek to ensure their wealth is never threatened, and a few ignore their post-scarcity reality and continue seeking to chase more wealth.

Anonymous forum use allows them to socialize without their lofty reputation messing with the conversation.

until we have tried our best to disprove it.

The best proof against it is that Maxwell Hill is a potentially common name. However, we'd need to find someone that meets all criterion that the existing user has mentioned about themselves while also being a Maxwell Hill. Regardless, I believe whoever maxwellhill ends up being, they should probably be pursued or put on a list for their stance on child pornography.