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Maxwell and Epstein, 1993

The relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein evolved over decades, beginning as a personal, romantic involvement in the early 1990s and morphing into a complex professional partnership that facilitated a long-running sex trafficking operation. After meeting in the early 1990s following the death of her father, media mogul Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine and Jeffrey dated for several years. During this time, Maxwell, a well-connected British socialite, introduced Epstein to a vast network of wealthy and powerful friends, including politicians and royals, which helped him gain access to elite social circles. Even after their romantic relationship ended in the late 1990s or early 2000s, they remained close friends and professional associates; Epstein described her as his "best friend" and she worked as a "house manager" or "general manager" for his various luxury properties, receiving significant funds from him.

Beneath the veneer of high society and legitimate business, their relationship involved a criminal enterprise in which Maxwell played a critical role in a "pyramid scheme of abuse". According to extensive victim testimony and court documents, Maxwell actively participated in recruiting and grooming vulnerable underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse between at least 1994 and 2004. She would befriend the girls, lure them with promises of career opportunities or gifts, and coordinate their travel to Epstein's mansions in New York, Florida, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Survivors testified that Maxwell helped "normalize" the abuse, sometimes by discussing sexual topics, being present during sexual encounters, or instructing the girls on how to give Epstein sexual massages.

The legal outcome solidified the criminal nature of their partnership. Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019, but he died by suicide in his jail cell a month later while awaiting trial. Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and subsequently convicted in December 2021 on five of six federal counts, including the most serious charge of sex trafficking of a minor. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022, with the judge describing her conduct as "heinous and predatory". Maxwell continues to appeal her conviction, maintaining her innocence and claiming she is a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes, but the verdict confirmed her instrumental role in his long-standing network of sexual exploitation.

Background

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Romantic relationship and friendship

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Accounts differ on when Ghislaine Maxwell first met the American financier Jeffrey Epstein. According to Epstein's former business partner Steven Hoffenberg, Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.[1] The Times reported that Maxwell met Epstein in the early 1990s at a New York party following "a difficult break-up with Count Gianfranco Cicogna" (1962–2012) of the CIGA Hotels clan.[2] Maxwell and Epstein were associated with each other by February 1993.[3] In 1995, Maxwell and Epstein were guests of honour on a cruise organised by Lindsay Fox who had invited Rodney Adler and wife Lindi as well as James Packer and then-girlfriend Deni Hines.[4]

Maxwell had a romantic relationship with Epstein for several years in the early 1990s and remained closely associated with him for more than 25 years until his death in 2019.[5][6][7] The nature of their relationship remains unclear, although at trial, prosecutors said that from 1994 to 1997 they were engaged in an intimate relationship.[8] A 22 January 2001 article by Nigel Rosser of the Evening Standard reported that friends of Epstein said Maxwell "remains desperate to marry Epstein", further elaborating: "You could say she was pretty much entirely dependent on him. She loves him. He sometimes treats her well, sometimes off-handedly. You could say she sees something of a father in him."[9] In a 2009 deposition, several of Epstein's household employees testified that Epstein referred to her as his "main girlfriend" who also hired, fired, and supervised his staff, starting around 1992.[10] She has also been referred to as the "Lady of the House" by Epstein's staff and as his "aggressive assistant".[11] In a 2003 Vanity Fair profile on Epstein, the author Vicky Ward said Epstein referred to Maxwell as "my best friend".[12] Ward also observed that Maxwell seemed "to organize much of his life".[12] Politico reported that Maxwell and Epstein had friendships with several prominent individuals in elite circles of politics, academia, business, and law, including the US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, known at the time as His Royal Highness Prince Andrew.[13] However, it has been acknowledged that Clinton, who Maxwell has stated was actually her friend and not Epstein's, was in fact connected to Epstein through her.[14][15][16]

Maxwell is known for her longstanding friendship[17] with Andrew, and for having escorted him to a "hookers and pimps" social function in New York.[18] In a November 2019 interview with the BBC, Andrew said that the two had known each other since Maxwell was an undergraduate at Oxford.[19] She introduced Epstein to Andrew, and the three often socialised together.[20] In 2000 Maxwell and Epstein attended a party thrown by Andrew at the Queen's Sandringham House estate in Norfolk, reportedly for Maxwell's 39th birthday.[21] In his November 2019 interview with the BBC, Andrew confirmed that Maxwell and Epstein had attended an event at his invitation, but he denied that it was anything more than a "straightforward shooting weekend".[22] In 1995 Epstein renamed one of his companies the Ghislaine Corporation; based in Palm Beach, Florida, US, the company was dissolved in 1998.[10] As a trained helicopter pilot, Maxwell also transported Epstein to Little Saint James, his private Caribbean island in the US Virgin Islands.[23][24]

In 2008 Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and served 13 months of an 18-month prison sentence. Following Epstein's release, although Maxwell continued to attend prominent social functions, she and Epstein were no longer seen together publicly.[25] Although in 2013 Maxwell was an honoured guest at the Clinton Global Initiative conference,[26] by late 2015 she had largely retreated from attending social functions.[25][27]

In her October 2025 memoir Nobody's Girl, Virginia Giuffre alleged Maxwell and Epstein sought to use her to be a surrogate mother for a baby they were planning to have together.[16]

Civil cases and accusations

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Civil suits

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Virginia Giuffre v Maxwell (2015)

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Details of a civil lawsuit, made public in January 2015, contained a deposition from "Jane Doe 3" that accused Maxwell of recruiting her in 1999, when she was a minor, and grooming her to provide sexual services for Epstein:

In court documents, Epstein's accusers allege that Maxwell acted as a recruiter, an instructor, and in some cases a participant in the abuse he practiced. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims that Maxwell recruited her on behalf of Epstein when Giuffre was a 16-year-old spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, where Epstein has a home, said much of her grooming came from Maxwell herself. "The training started immediately", she said in a video interview with the Miami Herald. "It was everything down to how to give a blowjob, how to be quiet, be subservient, give Jeffrey what he wants. A lot of this training came from Ghislaine herself. Being a woman, it kind of surprises you that a woman could let stuff like that happen. Not only let it happen but to groom you into doing it."[5]

A 2018 exposé by Julie K. Brown in the Miami Herald revealed Jane Doe 3 to be Virginia Giuffre, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts. Giuffre met Maxwell at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, when Giuffre was a 16-year-old spa attendant.[28] She asserted that Maxwell had introduced her to Epstein, after which she was "groomed by the two [of them] for his pleasure, including lessons in Epstein's preferences during oral sex".[28][29] Maxwell repeatedly denied any involvement in Epstein's crimes.[30] In a statement in 2015 Maxwell rejected allegations that she had acted as a procurer for Epstein and denied that she had "facilitated Prince Andrew's [alleged] acts of sexual abuse". Her spokesperson said "the allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue" and she "strongly denies allegations of an unsavoury nature, which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old defamatory claims".[31][32]

Giuffre asserted that Maxwell and Epstein had trafficked her and other underage girls, often at sex parties hosted by Epstein at his homes in New York, New Mexico, Palm Beach, and the United States Virgin Islands. Maxwell called her a liar. Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015. While details of the settlement have not been made public, in May 2017 the case was settled in Giuffre's favour,[33] with Maxwell paying Giuffre "millions".[34] Giuffre's family reported that she committed suicide on 25 April 2025, at her farm in Australia.[35] She was 41, and had three children.[35]

Sarah Ransome v Epstein and Maxwell (2017)

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In 2017 Sarah Ransome filed a suit, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York and on Little Saint James. The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms.[36][37][38][39]

Affidavit filed by Maria Farmer (2019)

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On 16 April 2019 Maria Farmer went public and filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister, Annie, had been sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996. Farmer's affidavit was filed in support of a defamation suit by Virginia Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz.[40] According to the affidavit, Farmer had met Maxwell and Epstein at a New York art gallery reception in 1995. The affidavit says that in the summer of the following year, they hired her to work on an art project in billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner's Ohio mansion, where she was then sexually assaulted by both Maxwell and Epstein.[41][42] Farmer reported the incident to the New York Police Department and the FBI.[43][37] Her affidavit also stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew Annie to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell molested her on a massage table.[44][45] Farmer was interviewed for CBS This Morning in November 2019 where she detailed the 1996 assault and said that Maxwell had repeatedly[46] threatened both her career and her life after the assault.[47] In 2025, Farmer sued the federal government in the US District Court for the District of Columbia for failing to protect her and other victims.[46]

Jennifer Araoz v Epstein's estate, Maxwell, and Jane Does 1–3 (2019)

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On 14 August 2019 Jennifer Araoz filed a lawsuit in the New York County Supreme Court against Epstein's estate, Maxwell, and three unnamed members of his staff; the lawsuit was made possible under New York State's new Child Victims Act, which took effect on the same date.[48] Araoz later amended her complaint on 8 October 2019 with the names of the previously unidentified women enablers to include Lesley Groff, Cimberly Espinosa, and the late Rosalyn Fontanilla.[49]

Priscilla Doe v Epstein's estate (2019)

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Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York on 20 August 2019 against the estate of Epstein.[50] The woman filing the suit, identified as "Priscilla Doe", claimed that she was recruited in 2006 and trained by Maxwell with step-by-step instructions on how to provide sexual services for Epstein.[51][52]

Annie Farmer v Maxwell and Epstein's Estate (2019)

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Annie Farmer, represented by David Boies, sued Maxwell and Epstein's estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan in November 2019, accusing them of rape, battery, and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified damages.[53][54]

Jane Doe v Maxwell and Epstein's Estate (2020)

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In January 2020 a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in the summer of 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse.[53][55] The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four-year period and that Maxwell played a key role both in her recruitment and by participating in the assaults.[53] According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe was targeted by Epstein and Maxwell for being fatherless and from a struggling family, in much the same manner as many of the other alleged victims.[55]

Maxwell v Epstein's Estate, Darren K. Indyke, Richard D. Kahn, and NES LLC (2020)

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On 12 March 2020 Maxwell filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands seeking compensation from Epstein's estate for her legal costs.[56][57] Maxwell claimed she had been a longtime employee of Epstein (from 1998 to 2006)[58] who had served to manage his property holdings in the US Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico, Florida and Paris,[59] while continuing to deny any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities.[56][57] According to the lawsuit, Maxwell was seeking damages for the legal fees associated with defending herself against her accusers, expenses that she claims Epstein had promised to cover for her.[56][57]

Jane Doe v Epstein's estate (2021)

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Maxwell was named in a civil suit filed against Epstein's estate in March 2021 by a Broward County woman who accused Epstein and Maxwell of trafficking her after repeatedly raping her in Florida in 2008.[60]

Dispute over release of court documents

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On 2 July 2019 the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the unsealing of documents from the earlier civil suit against Maxwell by Giuffre.[61] Epstein was arrested on 6 July 2019 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy.[62] Maxwell requested a re-hearing in a federal appeals court on 17 July 2019, in an effort to keep documents sealed that were part of a suit by Giuffre.[63] On 9 August 2019 the first batch of documents was unsealed and released from the earlier defamation suit by Giuffre against Maxwell.[64] Epstein was found dead on 10 August 2019, after reportedly hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell.[65][66]

Maxwell and her lawyers continued to argue against the further release of court documents in December 2019.[67] Reuters confirmed on 27 December 2019 that Maxwell was under investigation by the FBI for facilitating Epstein's criminal activities.[68] Additional documents from the Giuffre v Maxwell defamation suit were released on 30 July 2020.[69] The documents included a deposition given by Giuffre and more recent email exchanges between Maxwell and Epstein,[69] with some of the correspondence from 2015.[70] On 3 January 2024 over 900 pages of previously sealed documents[71] relating to Giuffre's civil case against Maxwell were made public following litigation by the Miami Herald; further documents were released on 4 January.[72]

Attempts to locate Maxwell to serve court documents

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On 27 December 2019 Reuters reported that Maxwell was among those under FBI investigation for facilitating Epstein.[68] After his arrest, Maxwell was in hiding, communicating with the courts only through her lawyers who, as of 30 January 2020, had refused to accept on her behalf service of three lawsuits against her.[53] The New York Times reported that by 2016, Maxwell was no longer being photographed at events.[36] By 2017 her lawyers claimed before a judge that they did not know her address; they further stated that she was in London but they did not believe she had a permanent residence.[36]

Maxwell has a history of being unreachable during legal proceedings.[53][73][74][75] During the lawsuit filed in 2017 from Ransome against Maxwell, US District Judge John G. Koeltl granted a motion for "alternative service" on the grounds that the plaintiff's efforts to reach Maxwell were persistently thwarted; these included hiring a private investigation firm that attempted service at three physical addresses, sending information to several email addresses, and reaching out to the lawyers actively representing Maxwell in another lawsuit who refused to become a "general agent of process" to relay the information to her.[74]

According to court documents from a lawsuit filed by Epstein in the US against Bradley Edwards (a representative for several of his accusers), in 2010 Maxwell had agreed to provide a deposition in the case but reportedly left the country one day before Edwards was scheduled to fly to New York to take her deposition, "claiming she needed to return to the United Kingdom to be with her deathly ill mother"[75] with no intention of returning to the United States.[73] However, Maxwell returned within a month to attend Chelsea Clinton's wedding.[73]

In January 2020 it was reported that Maxwell had refused to allow her lawyers to be served with several lawsuits in which she has been directly named in 2019 and 2020, including one by Farmer and from Araoz.[53] While Maxwell's lawyers continued to argue on her behalf against the release of additional court documents from the Giuffre v Maxwell lawsuit,[67] they claimed to not know where she was or to have permission to accept the lawsuits filed against her.[53][42]

Authorities in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) were unsuccessful in locating Maxwell during the three and a half months they were seeking to serve her with a subpoena.[76] USVI prosecutors consider Maxwell to be a "critical fact witness" in their lawsuit against Epstein's estate.[76] A court filing from the USVI Department of Justice, released on 10 July 2020, stated that Maxwell was also under investigation for her alleged participation in Epstein's sex trafficking operation in the US Virgin Islands.[77]

Criminal conviction and incarceration

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Arrest and indictment

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Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn

Maxwell faced persistent allegations of procuring and sexually trafficking underage girls for Epstein and others, charges she denied.[36] Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, US, by the FBI on 2 July 2020, through the use of an IMSI-catcher ("stingray") mobile phone tracking device on a phone used by her to call her husband Scott Borgerson, her sister Isabel, and one of her lawyers.[78]

Prosecutors, led by United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, charged Maxwell with six federal crimes, including enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children, and perjury.[79][80] The indictment charged that between 1994 and 1997, she "assisted, facilitated, and contributed" to the abuse of minor girls despite knowing that one of three unnamed victims was 14 years old.[81] Among her supporters was then US President Donald Trump, who said in July 2020: "I just wish her well."[82] In an interview two weeks later with Axios, he returned to the subject telling Jonathan Swan: "Yeah, I wish her well. I'd wish you well. I'd wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty."[83]

As of 28 April 2021, Maxwell was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York.[84][85][86] Lawyers requested that Judge Alison Nathan release her on US$5-million bond with monitored home confinement while awaiting trial.[87] Maxwell appeared by video link before a court in Manhattan on 14 July 2020 and pleaded not guilty to the charges.[88] A naturalised US citizen since 2002 who also holds passports from France and the United Kingdom, Maxwell was denied bail as a flight risk amid concerns regarding her "completely opaque" finances, her skill at living in hiding, and the fact that France does not extradite its citizens.[89][87][90] The judge set a trial date of 12 July 2021.[88][91][92]

Maxwell's attorney reiterated her request for bail on 18 December 2020, and proposed that Maxwell reside with a friend in New York City while under 24-hour surveillance as she awaited trial.[93] Her husband, Scott Borgerson, made a secured offer of US$22 million to guarantee her presence at future appearances.[93] On 28 December 2020, a further request for bail was again rejected by the judge.[94] Maxwell's bail request was opposed by her alleged victim Annie Farmer.[93]

On 19 January 2021, a court hearing was disrupted by believers in QAnon – who believe Maxwell to be working in cohort with a cabal of child-sacrificing Satanist liberal elites who traffic children for sex – as the proceedings were illegally livestreamed to YouTube.[95][96] On 26 January 2021, a motion by Maxwell's lawyers challenged her grand jury indictment, claiming that it did not reflect the ethnic diversity of the jurisdiction in which the violations of the law were alleged to have occurred.[97]

On 29 March 2021, US prosecutors added new charges of sex trafficking a minor and sex trafficking conspiracy, alleging that Maxwell was involved in grooming a fourth girl, aged 14, to engage in sexual acts with Epstein between 2001 and 2004 at his residence in Palm Beach.[98][99] Maxwell pleaded not guilty to the additional charges; she faced six counts that included sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking conspiracy, in addition to two counts of perjury.[100]

Maxwell's lawyers regularly protested about the conditions of her confinement, which included being kept awake by a light shone in her eyes every fifteen minutes to deter the chances of her committing suicide, and being denied a sleep mask.[101] One, David Markus, protested, "There's no evidence she's suicidal. They're doing it because Jeffrey Epstein died on their watch", and "She's not Jeffrey Epstein, this isn't right".[101] She had, as of November 2021, spent more than 500 days in solitary confinement.[102]

Sex-trafficking trial

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In April 2021, US District Judge Alison Nathan ruled that Maxwell would face two separate trials, one for the sex trafficking charges and another for perjury.[103] Nathan delayed the first trial to 29 November 2021, after Maxwell's defence lawyers successfully argued that the new charges added in March 2021 did not give them enough time to prepare for trial.[104] Maxwell appeared in court on 15 November 2021.[105] The trial commenced on 29 November with opening statements.[104] Twelve jurors had been picked, plus six alternates, from a pool of forty to sixty people.[106]

Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz and Audrey Strauss chose to focus on four out of more than 100 victims. One girl, who was presented to the courtroom as "Jane", testified that Maxwell and Epstein had preyed upon her as she attended summer arts camp in 1994. The two predators set up a pyramid scheme in which they would reward with additional money vulnerable girls who brought to them another vulnerable girl. The girls were essentially turned into prostitutes for hire by a "grooming playbook". Of the four witnesses only one, Annie Farmer, chose to identify herself. Juan Alessi, Epstein's concierge in Manhattan, provided some of the most damning testimony.[107] The prosecutors said she was hired by Epstein and used these "means to support her lifestyle".[108]

Maxwell chose not to testify, telling the judge "Your honour, the government has not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. So there is no need for me to testify." She was represented by Jeff Pagliuca.[citation needed] A spokesperson for Maxwell's family had previously said she was "too fragile" to testify.[109] The psychology professor Elizabeth Loftus was called as an expert witness for the defence and provided testimony on false memory syndrome.[110] In early December 2021, Twitter suspended the account "@TrackerTrial", an account monitoring Maxwell's trial. The account was two weeks old and had 525,000 followers before its suspension.[111][112] On 28 December, as infections from COVID-19 rose in the city, judge Nathan extended the jury's sitting times, as she was concerned that juror infections would raise the possibility of a mistrial.[113][114]

Conviction and appeals

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Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, gives a statement following the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell.

On 29 December 2021, Maxwell was convicted by a jury in US federal court on five sex trafficking-related counts carrying a potential custodial sentence of up to 65 years' imprisonment: one of sex trafficking of a minor (maximum: 40 years), one of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (10 years) and three of conspiracy to commit choate felonies (15 years total).[115] Maxwell was acquitted on the charge of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.[116][117][118] Maxwell's family said the appeal process had begun.[119][120] The only witness to use her real name during her testimony, Annie Farmer, spoke out after the trial saying, "I hope that this verdict brings solace to all who need it ... Even those with great power and privilege will be held accountable when they sexually abuse and exploit the young."[121]

Maxwell sought a retrial on the grounds that a juror did not disclose during jury selection that he had been sexually abused as a child. He had shared a narrative of that abuse with other jurors during the proceedings.[122][123] On 1 April 2022, the judge found that the juror's failure to disclose his abuse as a child did not warrant a new trial and dismissed Maxwell's request to set aside the verdict.[124]

On 28 June 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison;[125] prosecutors were seeking a sentence of at least 30 years.[126] In her concluding verdict, the judge said: "The evidence at trial established that Ms Maxwell directly and repeatedly and over the course of many years participated in a horrific scheme to entice, transport and traffic underage girls, some as young as 14, for sexual abuse by and with Jeffrey Epstein. I will pause on those words for a moment, 'by and with Epstein.' It is important at the outset to emphasize that although Epstein was, of course, central to this criminal scheme, Ms Maxwell is not being punished in place of Epstein or as a proxy for Epstein. Like every other participant in a multi-defendant case, Ms Maxwell is being punished for the role that she played in the criminal conduct. As to that role, the trial evidence established that Ms. Maxwell was instrumental in the abuse of several underage girls and that she herself participated in some of the abuse."[127]

Maxwell had complained of threats coming from prison staff in the days prior to sentencing, but gave no details about the nature of the threats. Although she had been placed on suicide watch on 24 June,[128][129] she told the psychiatric team that she was not suicidal. A related request by her lawyers for a sentencing delay was denied.[130]

Maxwell appealed the conviction on 7 July.[131] On 25 July 2022, Maxwell was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, to a low-security federal prison for female inmates at Federal Correction Institution, Tallahassee.[132] She is scheduled to be released on 17 July 2037.[84] In August 2022, her former lawyers sued her, alleging that she failed to pay $878,000 in legal fees.[133] On 17 September 2024, three judges at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Maxwell's five convictions and sentence.[134][135] In April 2025, her lawyer David Oscar Markus asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal,[136] and on the business day after her prison interview with deputy attorney general Todd Blanche,[137] he made a new filing in the case. The petition tested whether an agreement by one federal prosecutor (to wit, Acosta) binds his colleagues across the country.[138] However, on 6 October, the Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal.[139]

2022 perjury trial

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In December 2021, Maxwell faced a second criminal trial for perjury on two charges that she lied under oath during a civil suit in 2015 about Epstein's abuse of underage girls. Each count carried a maximum sentence of five years in prison.[140][141][142] Prosecutors have said that perjury charges would be dropped if she were sentenced on the sex trafficking charges on schedule.[143] Following a petition for a new trial, submitted under seal, prosecutors told the judge on 4 February 2022 that Maxwell's arguments for a retrial must be "publicly docketed"; the judge said that the reasons for making the submission under seal must be made public.[144]

Incarceration and 2025 congressional testimony

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On 23 July 2025, chairman James Comer of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability subpoenaed Maxwell to testify under oath about her involvement with Epstein.[145] She answered on 29 July through her lawyer and demanded immunity from further prosecution.[146][147][148] Interest in her case, says the journalist Michael Wolff, had lately peaked with the 17 July publication in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal of a 50th birthday letter of congratulations to Epstein from Trump,[149] who immediately filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the newspaper.[150][151][152] The scrapbook had been compiled in 2003 by Maxwell.[149] US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who in 2024 had defended Trump and in 2025 was appointed by Trump in his inaugural cleansing of the US Department of Justice,[127] interviewed Maxwell on 24 and 25 July 2025.[153][154] During the interview, Maxwell said that Trump had not done anything of concern in her presence.[155]

On 1 August, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Maxwell had been transferred[156][157] from FCI Tallahassee[158] to Federal Prison Camp, Bryan in Bryan, Texas,[159] a minimum security facility, "among the facilities with the lowest level of security in the federal system, with limited or no perimeter fencing, dormitory-style housing and a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio",[160] regarded as one of the best federal prisons to serve time in.[161][162] The White House told reporters that she had received no "preferential treatment" and suggested that her move was routine.[154]

On 5 August, Raja Krishnamoorthi, a US representative, proposed to the US House Committee on the Judiciary, House Resolution 119–635, which "affirms that Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction and sentencing were more than warranted by the facts, and any receipt of a pardon, commutation, or other form of clemency by Ghislaine Maxwell would deny survivors the justice they deserve; and formally opposes the granting of a pardon, commutation, or other form of clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell."[163][164] Thereafter, Joseph Schnitt, the acting Deputy Chief of Special Operations for the Department of Justice, was caught on video claiming that Maxwell was transferred to a lesser-security prison as a way "to keep her mouth shut" from countering anything said by the administration. The DOJ and Schnitt himself responded on 4 September 2025 by stating that Schnitt had no connection to the Epstein case.[165] On 22 August, the Department of Justice released transcripts and recordings of interviews with Maxwell.[166]

In November 2025, US congressman Jamie Raskin reported that a whistleblower had informed him that Maxwell was receiving special treatment during her incarceration at a minimum security prison, including having custom meals delivered to her, guests allowed to bring computers during visits, access to a service dog in training as a companion and having the warden send out documents and emails on her behalf.[167] These alleged privileges sparked a probe into the Trump administration.[168]

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