Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime affiliate of accused intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a information convention on oceans and sustainable growth on the United Nations in New York, June 25, 2013 on this screengrab taken from United Nations TV file footage.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned confederate of infamous intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, will meet with prime Division of Justice official Todd Blanche for the second time on Friday, Blanche and her lawyer stated Thursday night.
Blanche met for a number of hours earlier Thursday with Maxwell and her felony protection lawyer within the federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
Neither Blanche nor Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, disclosed what was mentioned throughout Thursday’s session.
The assembly got here two days after Blanche stated that he would search data from her about potential abuse by different individuals of ladies and younger girls linked to the late cash supervisor Epstein.
And the bizarre sit-down got here after weeks of sturdy strain on the Trump administration to launch proof associated to Epstein’s crimes.
“At this time, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I’ll proceed my interview of her tomorrow,” stated Blanche in his publish on X on Thursday. “The Division of Justice will share extra details about what we discovered on the applicable time.”
Markus, in an announcement, stated, “Trying ahead to a different productive day tomorrow.”
“Ghislaine truthfully answered each query that Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche requested. And she’s going to proceed to take action,” Markus stated.
“We’re grateful that the federal government is making an attempt to uncover the reality. They’ve by no means earlier than spoken along with her and we belief the method.”
Blanche, who’s the deputy U.S. Lawyer Basic, left the courthouse with out chatting with or being seen by reporters ready outdoors.
However Markus gave a quick assertion to these journalists, calling the sit-down with Blanche “very productive.”
“He took a full day and requested a variety of questions,” Markus stated. “And Ms. Maxwell answered each single query. She by no means stopped, she by no means invoked a privilege. By no means declined to reply.”
The DOJ on July 7 stated it could withhold data within the Epstein recordsdata regardless of prior guarantees by Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi and prime FBI officers that they’d be made public.
The DOJ has stated that Epstein abused greater than 1,000 victims.
Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year sentence within the federal correctional establishment in Tallahassee.
The Home Oversight Committee, which is managed by President Donald Trump‘s fellow Republicans, intends to challenge a subpoena for the Epstein recordsdata, a spokesperson for the panel stated Wednesday.
The Wall Avenue Journal on Wednesday reported {that a} current evaluate of Epstein-related paperwork by the DOJ and FBI discovered that Trump’s title appeared a number of occasions within the recordsdata, and that the president was knowledgeable of that by Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi in Might, weeks earlier than the DOJ stated it could not make public these recordsdata.
Trump had been buddies with Epstein years in the past, earlier than the 2 males had a falling out. There are lots of well-known individuals whose names have appeared in publicly launched paperwork associated to Epstein, and their presence in these data is just not essentially an indication of wrongdoing.
A display screen concerning the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata is displayed at Instances Sq. in New York Metropolis, U.S., July 23, 2025.
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Blanche beforehand served as considered one of Trump’s felony protection attorneys, and represented him final 12 months when Trump was convicted in New York state court docket of falsifying enterprise data associated to a 2016 hush cash fee to porn star Stormy Daniels by his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Maxwell was convicted at trial in 2021 in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan of crimes associated to procuring and grooming teenage ladies to be sexually abused by Epstein.
She has requested the Supreme Courtroom to take her enchantment of the conviction.
Epstein, 66, died from what was formally dominated a suicide, in a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019. He had been arrested weeks earlier on baby intercourse trafficking prices.
Epstein had pleaded responsible in 2008 to a Florida state cost of procuring a minor woman for prostitution.
His sudden demise in federal custody and his friendships with many highly effective and rich individuals have fueled conspiracy theories about Epstein and his circle for years.
The DOJ, in a memo launched earlier this month, stated {that a} “systematic evaluate” of proof assembled in investigations of Epstein “revealed no incriminating ‘consumer record.'”
“There was additionally no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed outstanding people as a part of his actions,” the memo stated. “We didn’t uncover proof that would predicate an investigation towards uncharged third events.”
The memo additionally concurred with the years-old medical expert’s ruling that Epstein had dedicated suicide.
“One in every of our highest priorities is combatting baby exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of these ends,” the DOJ memo stated.
“To that finish, whereas we now have labored to supply the general public with most data relating to Epstein and ensured examination of any proof within the authorities’s possession, it’s the dedication of the Division of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no additional disclosure could be applicable or warranted.”