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Convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, will reportedly attempt to cut a deal with federal authorities during her jailhouse meeting with Attorney General Todd Blanche, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the New York Post.
Blanche announced Tuesday that the DOJ had reached out to Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, regarding her willingness to cooperate with prosecutors in their investigation into Epstein and individuals who may have participated in Epstein's criminal enterprise.
“She’s going to make a deal,” said Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and law professor who was friends with and had previously represented Epstein. “That’s the way things are done. They make deals with the Mafia, so I’m certain they are going to try to make a deal with her.”
Another legal expert claimed that the meeting with Blanche would give Maxwell the opportunity to possibly lessen her sentence or be released from prison if she was willing to give new details about her and Epstein's lives, having closely guarded them since his death in 2019.
Maxwell, a British former socialite, was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offenses connected to Epstein in 2021. The decision to reach out to her followed scrutiny toward President Donald Trump's administration for not releasing more information about the Epstein files, which led to Trump publicly directing Bondi to release "pertinent" grand jury testimony.
Last Wednesday (July 16), Quinnipiac University released a poll showing a majority of Americans (63%) disapproved how Trump and his administration had handled the Epstein files. Podcaster Joe Rogan, who staunchly supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election, criticized the administration's announcement claiming there was never a list or footage revealing Epstein's alleged clients, which was a talking point of conservative pundits for years.
“They’ve got videotape and all [of] a sudden they don’t,” Rogan said on the episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on Tuesday (July 15).
“You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes,'” he added, referring to FBI Director Kash Patel's appearance on his podcast in June. “Like, what? Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s–t? Why’d they say that? Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?"
Bondi had previously claimed that the supposed Epstein list was on her desk awaiting review months ago and told reporters that the FBI was reviewing "tens of thousands of videos" of Epstein "with children or child porn" on July 1 before the DOJ suddenly announced that there was no "Epstein list" or incriminating footage of his associates days later. President Trump spent months claiming he had plans to release everything the government had on Epstein and his alleged associates, which included releasing The Epstein Files: Phase 1 in February, though the files revealed next to no new information.
Trump, who had been photographed alongside Epstein in the past, claimed that he never visited the financier's notorious private island where numerous underage girls and young women were sexually abused, but claimed "a lot of people did."