Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, answered questions about “100 different people” after being questioned by a top Department of Justice official on Friday, her lawyer said.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking at a federal prison in Florida, faced another day of questioning from Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, about the Epstein case, which has been subject to controversy recently.
“Ghislaine answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a half, she answered those questions honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability,” Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said.
“She never invoked a privilege. She never refused to answer a question So we’re very proud of her.”
Blanche is interviewing Maxwell at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, to discuss others who may have “committed crimes against victims.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, answered more questions about the Epstein case to DoJ lawyers on Friday (Reuters)
It comes after the Trump administration has faced public backlash for refusing to release other public information in the “Epstein Files” – the information collected during the government’s investigation into Epstein.
Despite years of rumors about a so-called “client