US Justice Department to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell over Epstein saga

US Justice Department officials are set to meet on Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The meeting in Florida, which Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he was working to arrange, is part of an ongoing Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following fierce backlash from parts of US President Donald Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional records in the Epstein investigation.

Maxwell, the daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell, is the only former Epstein associate who was convicted in connection with his activities, which right-wing conspiracy theorists allege included trafficking young models for VIPs. She is serving a 20-year sentence.

“If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche said in a statement on Tuesday. “No one is above the law — and no lead is off-limits.”

Robert Maxwell fled the Nazis as a child and is rumored to have spied for Israel. He was buried in Jerusalem after dying under mysterious circumstances in 1991.

In 2023, it was reported that Ghislaine Maxwell was receiving prison services from a non-profit for Jewish inmates, using her Jewish ancestry for better food and time off.

She allegedly attempted to take refuge in Israel while under investigation for her role in Epstein’s sex abuse scheme before her arrest in 2020.