Explosive audio from Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison interviews just hit the DOJ’s website, shaking up the Epstein saga.
Fox News reported that the Justice Department dropped hours of recordings and transcripts from interviews with Maxwell, the sole person convicted in Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid sex trafficking scheme, conducted in a Tallahassee federal prison.
Maxwell, once Epstein’s close associate, faced Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in discussions that probed her role and Epstein’s shadowy world. Her limited immunity deal hinges on not lying, a tightrope she walks while denying serious allegations.
Maxwell, indicted alongside Epstein for abusing underage girls, remains the only one held accountable. Epstein’s 2019 death in jail, officially ruled a suicide, left Maxwell as the lone figure to face justice. Her 2021 conviction landed her a 20-year sentence, with an appeal still pending.
Maxwell swears no “client list” or blackmail material ever existed. She claims a 2009 call from a Rothstein Adler lawyer to the FBI, peddling a supposed piece of Epstein’s evidence, sparked the rumor. That firm later faced its own FBI raid and prosecutions for fraud and money laundering.
The “client list” tale, Maxwell insists, ties back to a sting involving Epstein’s former butler and his handwritten notes.
Her denial smells like a dodge to skeptics who see Epstein’s web as too tangled for such clean answers. The public’s obsession with a list persists, fueled by distrust in elite circles.
Meeting Epstein in the early 1990s, Maxwell worked for him and briefly shared a sexual relationship until 1999. By the mid-to-late 1990s, Epstein’s travels with “masseuses” raised red flags, a term accusers say masked illicit activities. Maxwell’s claim that she saw nothing nonconsensual feels like a convenient blind spot.
Maxwell points to Epstein’s late-1990s testosterone use as a character-altering factor. She also claims he cited a heart condition limiting normal sexual activity. These details paint a murky picture, but they don’t erase the accusations of systemic abuse.
“He’s a disgusting guy who did terrible things to young kids,” Maxwell told Blanche, distancing herself from Epstein’s actions.
Yet her insistence on his limited villainy—calling him “not that interesting”—rings hollow against the mountain of allegations. It’s a classic sidestep, deflecting blame while feigning candor.
Maxwell’s ties to high-profile figures like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew drew scrutiny in the interviews.
She denies Clinton ever visited Epstein’s U.S. Virgin Islands island, calling the Clintons her friends, not his. Her cozy framing of these relationships raises eyebrows, given Epstein’s elite connections.
Maxwell labels a 2001 photo of Prince Andrew with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre and herself as fake. Taken at Maxwell’s former Belgravia townhouse, the image shows Andrew’s arm around Giuffre, who later accused him of forced sex there. Maxwell’s dismissal of the photo as fabricated feels like a desperate rewrite of history.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in 2025, secured an undisclosed settlement from Prince Andrew in 2022, along with his donation to her crime victims’ charity.
Andrew, stripped of royal duties, met Epstein at a late-1990s or early-2000s dinner party, Maxwell claims, not through her. Her careful distancing from these introductions reeks of self-preservation.
“I believe it’s literally a fake photo,” Maxwell told Blanche about the Giuffre image. “I do not know that they met.” Her bold denial clashes with the settled lawsuit and Giuffre’s tragic end, leaving readers to question her credibility.
Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, insists she’s innocent and never should’ve faced trial. “She never committed or participated in sexual abuse against minors,” he wrote, a claim that strains belief given her conviction. The jury’s verdict stands as a rebuke to such blanket denials.
Maxwell’s willingness to keep talking—to prosecutors or Congress—suggests a strategy to reshape her narrative. Yet her blanket rejections of wrongdoing, from trafficking to witnessing abuse, clash with the evidence that put her behind bars. Her story feels like a calculated bid to dodge accountability.
