EXCLUSIVE: A blue, blue Christmas: Ghislaine Maxwell faces another grim holiday - and her 61st birthday - behind bars, with no festive celebrations and a bagged dinner of two pieces of bread, peanut butter, jelly, a cookie, and fruit

• The disgraced British socialite is facing a grim day with no decorations or party
• Her best case scenario is a makeshift cake using microwaved Honey Buns
• Maxwell's spokesman told DailyMail.com: 'Her spirits are holding up well'

Ghislaine Maxwell is set to spend another grim Christmas – and birthday – behind bars, her first since starting her 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida. 

The disgraced British socialite, who also turns 61 on December 25, will mark both occasions with no decorations, no party, and a bleak bagged Christmas dinner consisting of two slices of bread, peanut butter, and jelly. 

Her best bet for a relatively decent celebration will be if fellow inmates are kind enough to put together a makeshift birthday cake using microwaved Honey Buns with chocolate poured over. 

Despite the bleak-looking circumstances, however, Maxwell's 'spirits are holding up well' and she is looking forward to celebrating her birthday and Christmas, as she is an 'innocent woman', her spokesman told DailyMail.com. 

The 60-year-old is serving her 20-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tallahassee, Florida, where she has a cushy regimen including pottery sessions, board game tournaments and crochet lessons from a notorious double murderer.

Yet, come December 25, things will be less cheery, given the prison makes no accommodation for birthdays and barely marks Christmas.

Maxwell's spokesman told DailyMail.com: 'Her spirits are holding up well, as you might expect of an innocent woman.' 

Holli Coulman, who runs Pink Lady Prison Consultants, which prepares inmates for their incarceration and has several clients in Maxwell's prison, said Maxwell would not even get a 'goodie bag' full of junk food, as that tradition was canceled due to Covid.

It would have contained small bags of cookies, candy and chips.

Maxwell – who was found guilty of child sex trafficking for her one-time lover, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – will get a Christmas meal but it will be served at 10.30am due to staff shortages over the holidays.

Coulman said the meal takes place in the dining hall and will include turkey, stuffing, green beans, corn, a roll with butter and apple crisp.

On her way out of the hall, Maxwell will pick up her bagged dinner, which will consist of two pieces of bread, peanut butter, jelly, a cookie and a piece of fruit.

Coulman said: 'Ghislaine will be in her pod of people for the remainder of the day. She will have time, like others, to use the phone and the computer to email. 

'It will all be timed like before. The ladies try to make the best of it.

'Many crochet or knit, so there are things that people do give to each other even though you are not supposed to accept anything from another inmate.

'Others use their talents, such as drawing, and someone who needs help with legal paperwork. There are inside trades for gifts to one another.

'For her birthday, Ghislaine may receive something like this from someone. Someone may make her something in the microwave from food bought on the commissary. 

'The big one was the Honey Bun cake. Several Honey Buns heated up, and chocolate melted from candy to create a cake. It'll depend on the officers on duty.'

Maxwell will be able to go to the prison chapel for around half an hour, where she could sing carols if she wanted, but no music will be played across the prison's sound system.

Coulman said December 25 was like 'Groundhog Day, with a more secure layer, because the staff is so short.'

Insiders have previously told DailyMail.com how Maxwell, who is known as inmate 02879-509, works just six hours a day in the prison library.

She also has daily access to the sporting facilities including the 400m running track, where she has been seen going on hour-long jogs.

Maxwell has used her Oxford University education to win over some of the 755-strong prison population.

Behind bars she hangs out with con woman Linda Morrow, who helped her plastic surgeon husband bilk insurers out of $44million by pretending procedures such as tummy tucks, breast augmentations and 'vaginal rejuvenations' were medical necessities.

Another confidante is Narcy Novack, a 65-year-old Florida woman serving life without parole for hiring hitmen to murder her hotelier husband Ben Novak Jr. and his elderly mother Bernice in a grab for their family estate.

However depressing Maxwell's Christmas is, it will be merrier than last year, which she spent in the grim Metropolitan Detention Center midway through her trial.

Maxwell complained bitterly about her treatment at the hands of the prison guards, who she claimed shone a light at her every 15 minutes for 24 hours a day.

Her lawyers complained at the time that she was 'withering to a shell of her former self,' was losing her hair and was forced to scrub shower walls after she complained about her mistreatment.

In legal filings they claimed she never had a 'properly heated meal' and the microwave used by guards melts the plastic.

Another problem was that the water in the prison is 'odorous and non-palatable' and so 'clouded with heavy particulates' that it went brown, Maxwell's attorneys griped.

At the MDC her Christmas package from the prison would have included some socks and a packet of peanuts.