Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime subordinate of accused enactment trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks astatine a quality league connected oceans and sustainable improvement astatine the United Nations successful New York, June 25, 2013 successful this screengrab taken from United Nations TV record footage.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, "answered each azygous question" that she was asked Thursday successful an bonzer hours-long gathering with a apical Department of Justice authoritative successful a Florida courthouse, her lawyer said.
But the defence lawyer, David Oscar Markus, besides said, "We don't privation to remark astir the substance of the gathering for evident reasons."
Blanche met with Maxwell aft what helium said Tuesday would beryllium an effort to get accusation from her astir imaginable different abusers of girls and young women connected to Epstein.
"We had a precise productive time contiguous with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell," Markus told reporters extracurricular U.S. District Court successful Tallahassee.
"We privation to convey the lawman lawyer wide for being truthful nonrecreational with each of america and gathering with each of us," Markus said.
"He took a afloat time and asked a batch of questions. And Ms. Maxwell answered each azygous question. She ne'er stopped, she ne'er invoked a privilege. Never declined to answer," Markus said.
"She answered each of the questions truthfully, honestly, and to the champion of her ability. And that's each the remark we're going to person contiguous astir the meeting."
The lawyer declined to reply erstwhile asked if Maxwell would conscionable with Blanche for a 2nd day.
The antithetic sit-down came connected the heels of weeks of beardown unit connected the Trump medication to merchandise grounds related to Epstein's crimes.
The DOJ connected July 7 said it would withhold accusation successful the Epstein files contempt anterior promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and apical FBI officials that they would beryllium made public.
"If Ghislaine Maxwell has accusation astir anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ volition perceive what she has to say," Blanche wrote successful a station connected the societal media tract X connected Tuesday.
The DOJ has said that Epstein abused much than 1,000 victims.
Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year condemnation successful the national correctional instauration successful Tallahassee.
The House Oversight Committee, which is controlled by President Donald Trump's chap Republicans, intends to contented a subpoena for the Epstein files, a spokesperson for the sheet said Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal connected Wednesday reported that a caller reappraisal of Epstein-related documents by the DOJ and FBI recovered that Trump's sanction appeared aggregate times successful the files, and that the president was informed of that by Attorney General Pam Bondi successful May, weeks earlier the DOJ said it would not marque nationalist those files.
Trump had been friends with Epstein years ago, earlier the 2 men had a falling out. There are galore well-known radical whose names person appeared successful publically released documents related to Epstein, and their beingness successful those records is not needfully a motion of wrongdoing.
A surface astir the Jeffrey Epstein files is displayed astatine Times Square successful New York City, U.S., July 23, 2025.
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Blanche antecedently served arsenic 1 of Trump's transgression defence lawyers, and represented him past twelvemonth erstwhile Trump was convicted successful New York authorities tribunal of falsifying concern records related to a 2016 hush wealth payment to porn prima Stormy Daniels by his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Maxwell was convicted astatine proceedings successful 2021 successful U.S. District Court successful Manhattan of crimes related to procuring and grooming teenage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein.
She has asked the Supreme Court to instrumentality her entreaty of the conviction.
Epstein, 66, died from what was officially ruled a suicide, successful a national jailhouse successful Manhattan successful August 2019. He had been arrested weeks earlier connected kid enactment trafficking charges.
Epstein had pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 to a Florida authorities complaint of procuring a insignificant miss for prostitution.
His abrupt decease successful national custody and his friendships with galore almighty and affluent radical person fueled conspiracy theories astir Epstein and his ellipse for years.
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The DOJ, successful a memo released earlier this month, said that a "systematic review" of grounds assembled successful investigations of Epstein "revealed nary incriminating 'client list.'"
"There was besides nary credible grounds recovered that Epstein blackmailed salient individuals arsenic portion of his actions," the memo said. "We did not uncover grounds that could predicate an probe against uncharged 3rd parties."
The memo besides concurred with the years-old aesculapian examiner's ruling that Epstein had committed suicide.
"One of our highest priorities is combatting kid exploitation and bringing justness to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories astir Epstein serves neither of those ends," the DOJ memo said.
"To that end, portion we person labored to supply the nationalist with maximum accusation regarding Epstein and ensured introspection of immoderate grounds successful the government's possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that nary further disclosure would beryllium due oregon warranted."
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