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Ghislaine Maxwell's family would turn her in to FBI investigators if they knew where she was, her sister's former nanny has claimed.

Sydney Proctor, 53, worked for Christine Maxwell for 20 years and said her employer rarely spoke to her sister – and not at all during her lengthy association with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

She also insisted that Christine, who was pictured close to Maxwell's Massachusetts bolthole on August 19, had not been helping her younger sister and was there instead to celebrate her birthday.

The claims add another twist to the mystery over Maxwell, who has not been seen since before the death of Epstein, her former lover for whom she is accused of procuring victims.

Inevitably it could be seen as a further smokescreen by her family in the wake of the apparent suicide, but Proctor said her family had no reason to be on her side, having been largely estranged from her for many years.

Ghislaine Maxwell's family would turn her in to FBI investigators if they knew where she was, her sister Christine's former nanny Sydney Proctor claimed to DailyMail.com. Maxwell's whereabouts are currently a mystery after a photo taken of the British socialite apparently sitting at an In-N-Out in LA (pictured) was revealed to have been staged by her lawyer

Proctor, 53, worked for Ghislaine's older sister Christine Maxwell for 20 years and said her employer rarely spoke to Ghislaine. She also insisted that Christine, who was photographed close to Maxwell's Massachusetts bolthole on August 19 (pictured) had not been helping her younger sister and was there instead to celebrate her birthday

Proctor (pictured), of Piedmont, California, said: '[Maxwell] distanced herself from her family until 2010 – they didn't even spend any time together until after Epstein. I don't think anyone in her family has a clue where she is because they just don't even have an idea of her addresses necessarily. Seriously, they just didn't spend any time with her'

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Proctor, of Piedmont, California, said: '[Maxwell] distanced herself from her family until 2010 – they didn't even spend any time together until after Epstein.

'I don't think she's with family but wherever she is, she has help – she can't live without help. Honestly, I'm surprised no one has turned her in. I think they will.'

She added: 'I don't think anyone in her family has a clue where she is because they just don't even have an idea of her addresses necessarily. Seriously, they just didn't spend any time with her.'

Maxwell's whereabouts are currently a mystery after a photo taken of the British socialite apparently sitting at a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles almost three weeks ago was revealed to have been staged by her lawyer, Leah Saffian, 60.

One of nine children born to media mogul Robert Maxwell and his French Holocaust scholar wife Elizabeth Meynard, Maxwell has brothers living in the UK and twin sisters who spent most of their lives in the Bay Area, close to San Francisco.

Tech entrepreneur Christine, 68, now of Dallas, Texas, was photographed shortly after Epstein's suicide on August 10 carrying bags out of a hotel close to Maxwell's Manchester-on-the-Sea hideaway.

But Proctor, who now runs a home errands company called Road Runner Errand Service Inc, says her visit to Massachusetts had nothing to do with Maxwell.

Like Maxwell, her twin sisters Christine (left in 1978) and Isabel (right) have spent most of their lives in the US – overwhelmingly in the Bay Area. Isabel's former husband, film maker Dale Djerassi, 65, spoke to DailyMail.com outside the Redwood City farm they once shared and said he thinks Maxwell 'could be anywhere'

Christine lives in Dallas, Texas, with her physicist husband Roger Malina, 69. The two were previously based in Oakland, California, where they still own a home currently occupied by their son Alan. The $2.44 million three-bedroom home (pictured) was deserted when DailyMail.com visited on Monday, with a neighbor saying Christine is rarely seen there 

Proctor said: 'Actually she wasn't in Manchester-on-the-Sea, she was celebrating her birthday in Boston with her sister and some girlfriends.

'Christine and Isabel have a birthday in the middle of August [on August 16]. They were with friends in Boston and they never got to Manchester-on-the-Sea.

'Whatever picture was taken, wasn't taken at Ghislaine's house – it was just snapped near an airport or something.

'I honestly don't think she has a clue [where Ghislaine is] – she hasn't talked to her sister at all. I don't think anyone in the family has talked to her.'

Proctor continued: 'Ghislaine has lived a very separate life. I think all the Maxwells are hoping there's some explanation that's going to exonerate Ghislaine so I think they would want her to be found sooner rather than later under the idea she hasn't done anything wrong.

'I don't think the family would protect her.'

She added: 'Post a reward for the help. Someone will turn her in. There's some maid she's pissed off somewhere who will know where she is.

'She's not a big fan of the help. I don't imagine this woman is holing up in a house without help. I don't imagine she's ever holed up in a house without help.

'I don't think she has any house without help, so I think the help would turn her in if there was a dollar reward out there.'

Along with Christine, Maxwell's siblings include Ian, the former chairman of the now defunct Mirror Group Newspapers, and another brother Kevin, who co-founded a British anti-terror think tank and is also a client of Saffian's. 

Both brothers were acquitted in 1995 of being part of their father's massive fraud, three years after being arrested in the wake of his death.

Like Maxwell, her twin sisters Christine and Isabel have spent most of their lives in the US – overwhelmingly in the Bay Area.

Maxwell was one of nine children born to media mogul Robert Maxwell and his French Holocaust scholar wife Elizabeth 'Betty' Meynard. In addition to twin sisters, Maxwell has brothers living in the UK. Pictured: Ghislaine sat on her mother's lap, her father Robert Maxwell (back row, center), Christine (far right standing) along with her other siblings

Robert Maxwell with his 'favorite' daughter Ghislaine watching Oxford F.C., the soccer club he owned, play Brighton F.C. in October 1984

Isabel, who has been married three times and has one son, co-founded search engine Magellan and now works as a tech consultant.

Christine lives in Dallas, Texas, where she is the Program Manager of Learning Technologies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

She and physicist husband Roger Malina, 69, were previously based in Oakland, California, where they still own a home currently occupied by their son Alan.

The $2.44 million three-bedroom home was deserted when DailyMail.com visited on Monday, with a neighbor saying Christine is rarely seen there.

Isabel's six-bedroom, five bathroom property in an upmarket part of San Francisco was sold three years ago for $3.5 million and has now been converted into two apartments.

On Thursday, her former husband, film maker Dale Djerassi, 65, spoke to DailyMail.com outside the Redwood City farm they once shared and said he thinks Maxwell 'could be anywhere'.

Djerassi, who has one son, Alexander, 34, with Isabel, added: 'She could be on a beach in the Maldives for all I know. All I know for sure is that she's not here.'

Maxwell has never spoken publicly of her involvement with Epstein and briefly dated the pervert before becoming his closest confidante.

She also drew him into her exalted social circles and is thought to have introduced him to Prince Andrew – appearing in the notorious 2001 photo of the royal, 59, with his arm around teenage victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

 Maxwell has never spoken publicly of her involvement with Epstein and briefly dated the pervert before becoming his closest confidante. Maxwell also allegedly procured young girls for Epstein and stands accused taking part in the sexual abuse of some of the victims herself

DailyMail.com revealed last month that Maxwell had been staying at her tech CEO boyfriend's waterfront mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea (pictured) 

Maxwell also allegedly procured young girls for Epstein and stands accused taking part in the sexual abuse of some of the victims herself

The socialite, and other alleged co-conspirators, are now the focus for federal investigators following Epstein's suicide in his Manhattan jail cell earlier this month.

Epstein, 66, was accused of arranging for girls, some as young as 14, to perform nude 'massages' and other sex acts, and of paying some of those girls to recruit others, between 2002 and 2005.

Due to Epstein's death, the sex trafficking indictment was dismissed on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman.

But Attorney General Bill Barr has said the investigation into Epstein's activities will continue, warning Maxwell and other friends two days after his death that the case will go on.

He said: 'Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy,'

'The victims deserve justice and they will get it.'

Maxwell, who was described as the 'madam of the house' by a former housekeeper at Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, has strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

The 57-year-old was also named in a civil lawsuit filed on August 14 by victim Jennifer Araoz who says she was 'forcibly raped' by the financier in New York in 2002 when she was 15.

Maxwell was named as a co-defendant in the case along with Epstein's estate.