Ghislaine Maxwell 'answered all questions' from Trump DOJ official, attorney says

Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald on Jul 24, 2025

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual gratification, had a “productive” meeting on Thursday at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, her attorney told reporters.

“He took a full day and asked a lot of questions and Ms. Maxwell answered every single question,” her attorney, David Oscar Markus, said just outside the courthouse following the meeting. “She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”

Maxwell’s meeting with Blanche follows weeks of furor over a decision by the FBI and Department of Justice to renege on repeated promises to release long-promised documents related to criminal investigations into Epstein, who sexually abused scores of underage girls prior to his death by hanging in 2019.

Since then, the House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoenaed the Department of Justice for its files on Epstein, and issued a subpoena to interview Maxwell on Aug. 11.

Reacting to backlash, Trump’s Department of Justice asked a South Florida judge to release grand jury records, a request that was rebuffed.

Blanche announced on Tuesday that he intended to meet with Maxwell to find out what she knows. Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, is appealing her conviction. “Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?” Blanche wrote on social media, adding that “no lead is off limits.”

Markus on Thursday declined to comment further, and would not say if there would be a subsequent meeting between Maxwell and Blanche.

“We don’t want to comment about the substance of the meeting, for obvious reasons,” he told reporters.

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