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Convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is reportedly assembling "new evidence" ahead of her scheduled jailhouse meeting with Attorney General Todd Blanche, her brother, Ian Maxwell, told the New York Post exclusively in an email on Wednesday (July 23).
“She will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome,” Ian said.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who served as Epstein's madam, had never previously gave her version of events of the late convicted pedophile's incidents prior to her own trial, which resulted in a 20-year sentencing for recruiting women and underage girls for the financier to sexually abuse, having also never testified in her own defense. On Tuesday (July 22), Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and law professor who was friends with and had previously represented Epstein, claimed that Maxwell would attempt to cut a deal with federal authorities in their investigation into Epstein and individuals who may have participated in Epstein's criminal enterprise.
“She’s going to make a deal,” Dershowitz told the New York Post. “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.
On 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."