{"id":86462,"date":"2025-08-23T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:46:07","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-transcripts-what-we-know-at-a-glance-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86462\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts: what we know at a glance | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Department of Justice has released the transcripts and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The transcripts include redacted documentation from a two-day interview on 24 and 25 July and several audio recordings. Here\u2019s what we know so far at a glance:<\/p>\n

Maxwell said that she \u201cnever\u201d saw Donald Trump receive a massage. She also said that she \u201cnever witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,\u201d adding that, whenever she saw the president, he was \u201ca gentleman in all respects\u201d.<\/p>\n

One notable point is that Maxwell denied ever recruiting masseuses from Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club. \u201cI\u2019ve never recruited a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago for that, as far as I remember. I can\u2019t ever recollect doing that,\u201d she told Blanche. A reminder that Trump claimed his falling-out with Epstein<\/a> stemmed from Epstein\u2019s efforts to hire workers away from Trump\u2019s Florida club.<\/p>\n

Maxwell detailed the social relationship between Trump and Epstein, who cultivated a wide and powerful social circle for many years. \u201cI don\u2019t know how they met, and I don\u2019t know how they became friends. I certainly saw them together and I remember the few times I observed them together, but they were friendly. I mean, they seemed friendly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Maxwell also did not recall former US president Bill Clinton receiving a massage while travelling with Epstein.<\/p>\n

Blanche said, on the record, that the conversation was not \u201cpromising to do anything\u201d for Maxwell. He said that anything she said could not be used against her, unless she provided false statements or there was a retrial in her case.<\/p>\n

According to Maxwell, Epstein did not have any video or photographic evidence of any high-profile individuals committing sexual offences. And to that point, Maxwell also said she didn\u2019t hear or witness any instances of Epstein blackmailing powerful people.<\/p>\n

Maxwell said she recruited a number of masseuses for Epstein but \u201cnever checked their age or credentials\u201d. She added that, throughout her time with Epstein, she never heard any examples of \u201csexually inappropriate contact\u201d between Epstein\u2019s guests and in-house masseuses.<\/p>\n

Despite her claims that Epstein did not extort anyone, Maxwell said she did not believe that Epstein died by suicide. She chalked that up to \u201cmismanagement\u201d at the Bureau of Prisons.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Maxwell said she did believe that Epstein \u201cdid a lot of, not all, but some of what he\u2019s accused of\u201d. But she maintained that \u201che became that man over a period of time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Maxwell did not remember whether Trump submitted a letter for Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday album, as reported<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal. She also could not remember asking Trump to contribute.<\/p>\n

Maxwell said Hillary Clinton did not associate with Epstein. When Maxwell was asked if Epstein \u201cknew or had any sort of visit, dealings or associated with Hillary Clinton,\u201d Maxwell responded: \u201cI would say no.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Department of Justice has released the transcripts and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-86462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}