The Justice Department on Friday released edited transcripts and audio from two days of interviews it had with Ghislaine Maxwell, who used to work for Jeffrey Epstein. Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General released the transcript after the Trump administration was getting criticized for not releasing records related to Epstein. “In the interest of transparency, State Department is releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell,” Todd Blanche said on social media post.
The transcripts show that Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General, was in charge of the sessions at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee on July 24 and 25, 2025. Maxwell said in one conversation about how she first heard of Donald Trump, “I may have met Donald Trump at that time because my father was friends with him and liked him very much.” The record says that she also said her father liked Ivana Trump because “she was also from Czechoslovakia,” according to the Department record.
After the interviews, Maxwell was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.
What comes next: The department hasn’t promised to release more sensitive materials, and says that protections for victims are still in place.
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