The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein‘s longtime associate, in a move the Trump administration cast as a step toward transparency after weeks of backlash over its refusal to disclose other records in the sex-trafficking case.
The transcripts cover two days of questioning last month by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at a Florida courthouse. Maxwell, convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage girls to be abused by Epstein, recalled possibly first meeting President Donald Trump around 1990, when her father, newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, owned the New York Daily News. She said her father “was friendly with him and liked him very much,” and noted his fondness for Trump’s then-wife, Ivana, who shared his Czechoslovakian background.
Following the interview, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security Florida federal prison to a minimum-security facility in Texas, though officials have not explained the move.
The release comes as the administration grapples with anger from Trump supporters who had been primed to expect damaging revelations about prominent figures. Officials have insisted many records remain under seal to protect victims, even as conspiracy theories over Epstein’s death and alleged “client lists” continue to circulate.
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