Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t dodge a single question when she sat down with top Justice Department officials, according to her lawyer.
“Ghislaine never declined to answer,” attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters Thursday outside a Florida courthouse. “She answered every question.” He added that she did not invoke the Fifth Amendment or claim any legal privilege during the hours-long meeting.
Markus didn’t take questions from the press and kept his comments brief. But he made one thing clear — his client fully cooperated with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
The meeting took place inside the federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, where Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
Blanche, who didn’t speak to media after the meeting, later posted on X: “Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
The high-level sit-down came after Blanche said earlier in the week he had reached out to Maxwell’s legal team for help chasing “new leads” in the ongoing investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking network. His move came as President Donald Trump’s supporters turn up the pressure, demanding answers on who else might be involved.
But Blanche’s involvement has set off alarm bells among Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on X: “Under no circumstances should anyone from Trump’s DOJ be allowed to privately interview Ghislaine Maxwell. The conflict of interest is glaring. It stinks of high corruption.”
Maxwell, 63, has always denied wrongdoing. She’s currently appealing her conviction to the Supreme Court.
The renewed attention comes after a Wall Street Journal report claimed that Trump had been informed in May by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi that his name appears “multiple times” in the Epstein files. Trump later denied that report outright.
“This is another fake news story, just like the previous story by The Wall Street Journal,” said White House communications director Steven Cheung in a statement.
