Ghislaine Maxwell Reveals Whether She Believes Epstein Committed Suicide
The Justice Department on Friday released hours of audio and hundreds of pages of transcripts from two days of interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
During the interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell stated bluntly: “I do not believe he died by suicide.” Epstein was found dead in his federal prison cell in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. Maxwell added she had “no idea” who might have been responsible for his death.
Maxwell denied ever witnessing inappropriate behavior by Epstein’s associates. When directly asked if President Donald Trump or former President Bill Clinton ever acted improperly around women or underage girls, Maxwell gave an emphatic denial.
“I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age,” Maxwell said. “Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me… I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him.”
She emphasized that during her time around Trump, she never saw him in a massage setting or acting inappropriately: “The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Maxwell also rejected claims of a so-called “Epstein client list” and denied any blackmail activity. “Absolutely never, in any context,” she said when asked if she had witnessed wrongdoing from high-profile men.
She maintained her relationship with Epstein was distinct and often overstated by the media: “Everyone puts us together like a monolith. He literally had a separate life from me. I literally had a separate life from him.”
Maxwell recounted interactions with a range of powerful individuals, including Elon Musk, Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, John Kerry, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, and current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to her account, RFK Jr. once joined Epstein on a mid-1990s trip to the Dakotas in search of dinosaur bones. She said nothing inappropriate occurred on the trip.
Maxwell also recalled traveling with Bill Clinton to Latin America but claimed she couldn’t remember the purpose of the trip. “It was an honor and a privilege,” she said, praising Clinton as “a former fantastic ex-president.”
Shortly after the interview documents were released, Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, issued a statement asserting her innocence: “Ghislaine Maxwell is innocent and never should have been tried, much less convicted, in this case. She never committed or participated in sexual abuse against minors, or anyone else for that matter.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for her role in Epstein’s abuse network and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. She was transferred to a lower-security facility following the interviews with the DOJ.
President Trump has been asked repeatedly whether he would consider pardoning Maxwell.
You can find the full transcript here: https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview