Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of adult offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred from a Florida prison to a minimum-security facility in Texas, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed on Friday.
No official reason was provided for the move. However, it occurred just a week after a senior Justice Department official met with Maxwell to question her about Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for adult trafficking minors.
“We can confirm Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” a spokesperson for the agency said.
The visit that preceded her transfer involved Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump — who spent two days interviewing Maxwell at a Florida courthouse. Such a meeting between a high-ranking Justice Department official and a convicted felon is highly unusual. Blanche has not disclosed details of their discussion, but Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, said she “answered every question she was asked.”
Maxwell has expressed interest in testifying before Congress about Epstein if granted immunity. She has also reportedly sought a pardon from Trump, once a known associate of Epstein.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence following her 2021 conviction for grooming and recruiting underage girls for Epstein’s abuse. The facility she’s now housed in reportedly holds 635 female inmates and is classified as minimum security.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to face pressure from Democrats — and even from within his own base — to address lingering questions about the Epstein case. Despite repeated official statements by the FBI and Justice Department that Epstein died by suicide, and no “client list” exists, speculation remains rampant, particularly among Trump’s conspiracy-minded supporters.
Adding to the intrigue, Trump this week told reporters that he had distanced himself from Epstein after the financier allegedly “stole” spa employees from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Among them, he claimed, was Virginia Giuffre — the woman who had long accused Epstein of using her as a adult slave. Giuffre died by suicide in Australia earlier this year.
Her family released a statement urging Trump not to pardon Maxwell, calling her a “monster who deserves to rot in prison for the rest of her life.”
