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The U.S. Department of Justice has released hundreds of pages of transcripts and audio from interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The release follows public pressure on the Trump administration regarding its handling of the Epstein case files and details Maxwell's perspective on her relationship with Epstein and his connections to powerful figures.
In the interviews, conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell repeatedly defended President Donald Trump. According to the documents, she stated, "The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects." She also denied seeing him in any compromising situations, such as receiving a massage. These details from Maxwell's DOJ interviews were made public as the administration sought to counter criticism for its initial refusal to release more evidence.
Maxwell also spoke about other prominent men in Epstein's orbit. She described former President Bill Clinton as her friend, not Epstein's, and denied he ever received a massage during flights on Epstein's private plane. She forcefully rejected the allegations made by Virginia Giuffre against Britain's Prince Andrew, calling the claims "rubbish" and a now-famous photograph of the three of them "fake." In response to the newly released material, Virginia Giuffre's family issued a statement calling Maxwell's comments "court-proven lies" and labeling the interview a "travesty of justice."
Throughout the interview, Maxwell denied the existence of a so-called "client list" and expressed skepticism about the official finding that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell. She speculated that if he were killed, it was likely an "internal situation" within the prison. The interviews were conducted under a grant of limited immunity. Shortly after the conversations with federal investigators, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Florida to a minimum-security camp in Texas.
