Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and confidant, was moved to a minimum security federal prison camp in Texas, prison officials said Friday.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed men and women.
The camp in Bryan, Texas, is minimum security and only houses women. A majority of the inmates at the facility are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche recently met with Maxwell and her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, for a total of nine hours over two days.
Blanche has made no public statements about what Maxwell said or about next steps in the current Justice Department investigation into Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019.
But the meetings came in the context of public furor over the July 6 announcement from the DOJ and the FBI that a review of the Epstein case had found, contrary to conspiracy theories, there was “no incriminating ‘client list'” and “no credible evidence” that he had been blackmailing famous men, and that he did in fact die by suicide.
That furor escalated when Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino did not report to work earlier this month as he considered resigning over the department’s handling of the Epstein files.
And leading up to Blanche’s meeting with Maxwell and Markus, it had become a real issue for President Donald Trump, a former friend of Epstein and Maxwell, and he has still not been able to shake it off.
Other famous prisoners at Texas camp
Markus confirmed to NBC News that Maxwell has been moved to the facility in Texas, but declined to comment further.
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is housed there after she was convicted of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. So is “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for running a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly people.
“We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
The Bureau of Prisons did not specify why she was transferred.