Ghislaine Maxwell Gets a Comfy New Home for Reasons Unknown
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a much nicer prison facility in Texas just days after meeting with President Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general to discuss what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein and any of his accomplices who may still be walking free.
The news was confirmed by both Maxwell’s attorney, David Marcus, and the Bureau of Prisons, though neither gave a reason for the move.
The convicted sex trafficker had been housed since July 2022 at a low-security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where she’d complained of “tasteless” tofu as a poor way to accommodate her meat-free diet. That prison housed both men and women, though her new home in Bryan, Texas, is a women-only facility.
The 63-year-old former socialite, currently serving a 20-year sentence for grooming underage girls for the late Epstein, has been pushing to have her conviction overturned and recently found herself in the spotlight of the Trump administration’s efforts to tamp down public outrage over promises of an Epstein “client list” that officials now say doesn’t exist.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met personally with Maxwell late last month, and her lawyer claims she handed over to Blanche “about 100 names” linked to Epstein. It’s not clear if that list included Trump, who has admitted to socializing with the sex offender and was reportedly named in the Justice Department’s files but insists he cut Epstein off and banished him from Mar-a-Lago decades ago after he “stole” spa workers.
Maxwell’s role in the saga has raised concerns she may be granted concessions to give the illusion of putting the matter to bed once and for all, even if she doesn’t actually provide any information that didn’t come out during her trial.
Trump has repeatedly said he’s “allowed” to pardon Maxwell, while feigning ignorance of the whole affair.
Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the longtime Epstein confidante to testify last week, though she appears to be playing hardball. Her lawyer said she’d need to be granted immunity to testify, while also noting that she’s busy with her appeal before the Supreme Court — the same appeal Trump’s Justice Department had earlier asked the high court to reject.