Ghislaine Maxwell, associate of the sexual trafficker accused of a long time ago, Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a press conference on oceans and sustainable development at the United Nations in New York, on June 25, 2013 on this screen taken from United Nations Television files.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the incarcerated accomplice of the famous sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, will meet with the senior official of the Todd Blanche department for the second time on Friday, Blanche said and his lawyer on Thursday night.
Blanche met for several hours on Thursday with Maxwell and his criminal defense lawyer in the Federal Court in Tallahassee, Florida.
Neither Blanche nor Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, revealed what was discussed during Thursday’s session.
The meeting occurred two days after Blanche said he would seek information about her about the possible abuse by other people of young girls and women connected to the late Epstein money administrator.
And the unusual seated occurred after weeks of strong pressure on the Trump administration to release evidence related to Epstein’s crimes.
“Today I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my her interview tomorrow,” Blanche said in his publication on Thursday. “The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
Markus, in a statement, said: “We expect another productive day tomorrow.”
“Ghislaine honestly answered all the questions asked by the attached attorney Todd Blanche. And he will continue to do so,” Markus said.
“We are grateful that the government is trying to discover the truth. They had never spoken with it before and trust the process.”
Blanche, who is the United States Deputy Attorney General, left the Palace of Justice without speaking or being seen by reporters waiting.
But Markus gave these journalists a brief statement, calling the sitting with Blanche “very productive.”
“He took a full day and asked many questions,” Markus said. “And Mrs. Maxwell answered every question. He never stopped, never invoked a privilege. He never refused to answer.”
The Doj on July 7 said that it would retain information in Epstein’s archives despite the previous promises of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the senior FBI officials that would be made public.
The Department of Justice has said that Epstein abused more than 1,000 victims.
Maxwell, 63, celebrates a 20 -year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee.
The Chamber Supervision Committee, controlled by the Republicans of President Donald Trump, intends to issue a citation for Epstein archives, a panel spokesman said Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a recent review of the documents related to Epstein by the DOJ and the FBI discovered that Trump’s name appeared several times in the archives, and that the president was informed of that by the attorney general Pam Bondi in May, weeks before the Justice Department said they would not make those files public.
Trump had been a friend of Epstein years ago, before the two men had a fight. There are many known people whose names have appeared in published documents related to Epstein, and their presence in these records is not necessarily a sign of irregularities.
A screen on Jeffrey Epstein’s archives is shown in Times Square in New York City, USA, July 23, 2025.
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Blanche previously served as one of Trump’s criminal defense lawyers, and represented it last year when Trump was sentenced in the New York State Court for falsifying commercial records related to a 2016 money payment to the Stormy Daniels porn star for his then personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Maxwell was sentenced in the trial in 2021 in the United States District Court in Manhattan of crimes related to the acquisition and preparation of adolescents so that Epstein abused sexually.
She has asked the Supreme Court to take their appeal of the conviction.
Epstein, 66, died of what was officially declared suicide, in a federal prison in Manhattan in August 2019. He had been arrested weeks before for child sexual traffic charges.
Epstein declared himself guilty in 2008 of a state position of Florida to acquire a younger girl for prostitution.
His sudden death in federal custody and his friends with many powerful and rich people have fed conspiracy theories about Epstein and his circle for years.
The Department of Justice, in a memorandum published earlier this month, said that a “systematic review” of evidence gathered in Epstein’s investigations “did not reveal a ‘list of’ incriminatory ‘clients.”
“Nor was credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions,” said the memorandum. “We did not discover evidence that an investigation against third parties could preach.”
The memorandum also agreed with the decision of the Forensic Doctor of years that Epstein had committed suicide.
“One of our main priorities is to combat the exploitation of children and bring justice to the victims. Perpetuate unfounded theories about Epstein does not serve any of those ends,” said the memorandum of the Department of Justice.
“For that purpose, although we have worked to provide the public with maximum information about Epstein and guarantee the examination of any evidence in government possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office that it would not appropriate or guarantee more additional dissemination.”
