Epstein accomplice drops courtroom bombshell: 25+ secret payoffs with no criminal charges
By Daniel Hampton
Published January 27, 2026 7:15 PM ET
Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, may be serving time in a cushy Texas federal prison, but the convicted child sex trafficker just detonated a political time bomb from behind bars, according to a new Daily Beast report Tuesday.
In a recent habeas petition, Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators" and "25 men" scored "secret settlements" tied to Epstein's abuse — without facing any indictment.
The report said Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are doing everything possible to avoid one glaring question: "Who are these men, and why are they still being protected?"
https://www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-maxwell-2675052422/
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just like Epstein did, if she makes any such threat. Of course there will be a 60 second "gap" in her surveillance videos.
Those damned surveillance cameras are always malfunctioning these days! 
The 29 dudes all called her up to tell her about their secret settlements, because, why?
And what were the nature of these "settlements"? Who offered them? What did they entitle the recipients TO?
If you want my opinion, she probably got this off some shady internet CT site.
This scumbag has lied her ass off ALL ALONG. I'm not inclined to start believing her now, and ESPECIALLY do not trust her motives 
ETA: Let me also add that a main Maxwell "angle" all along has basically been "the agreement for the non-prosecution of people involved with Epstein (from the 2008 case) should protect me too, I'm only in trouble because I'm a women and they're all powerful men". I would bet money that this 25 number is meant to be a count of the number of "men" who supposedly WERE allowed to "skate" because of that same 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
If you think this some kind of "coming clean", or "exposure of the guilty" you, it is almost certainly not. It's much more likely to be another salvo in a legal angle she's been working for many years. Now her lawyers are just adding a count/number because it sounds better. She's also ranted about corrupt jurors, corrupt prosecutors who were in cahoots with the victims lawyers, etc etc etc.
To be clear I'm not saying some men (or even women, such as Virginia Giuffre) didn't "skate" pursuant to that NPA because I really don't know.
But neither does she.
Her books says it's her greatest regret, etc.
So, yeah, if the cops wanted to be assholes, they could have prosecuted her as well. It's not like there's a carveout in the law that says being a paid member of a minor sex trafficking ring is totally A-OK if you're only 17 (and perhaps of note, she didn't leave Epstein's orbit until she was over 18). Legally, she self-admittedly was "part of the ring", we (rightly) choose to deem her innocent because she was groomed by Epstein.
That's not to say that the NPA *is* why she wasn't (again you'll notice I did not claim she wasn't, only that maybe she was), but it's not like it's unthinkable. There's exactly 4 people who were expressly listed in that NPA. And they were all 4 women.
You'll notice that in EVERY quote you're bringing up here, I'm allowing for the possibility that I'm wrong. And like I said, Maxwell has been working that NPA angle all along, and my guess, which I'm clear on ... is that what she's actually claiming is that "25 men" benefitted from the NPA, but not her, pursuant to her long-time claims that her prosecution and trial was corrupted.
You know, by Garland and Biden's DoJ
"Third ... Well yeah, that’s explicitly what she’s alleging. It’s the whole point of the article. There’s nothing to bet on."
Except this rawstory article says no such thing. Go read it. Its headline also says "payments" when no such thing is actually alleged.
"It is widely believed that the Washington Post got the Epstein birthday book page from Maxwell’s lawyers"
Actually, we know it was the Wall Street Journal, and that it came from the Epstein estate
"Fifth, the reason everyone got a NPA is they were involved or at least peripherally involved in intelligence work."
Well, there is also the fact that there's four people explicitly named as being excluded pursuant to that NPA, and those are Epstein's female assistants running his Estates and businesses in various purviews: Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, and Nadia Marcinkova.
Its safe to assume that these four women in some sense benefitted from the NPA, not that any of them were necessarily "guilty", but perhaps the NPA was to grant them immunity hoping they'd tell authorities what they knew about what Epstein was up to, and that hopefully others would similarly come forward, given this NPA? ETA: admittedly, this is a bit backwards if it were their intent, they could've put the squeeze on the women instead and it seems like Acosta et al did not approach it that way. At minimum they were glad-handing that fucker, but I'm not 100 this is not just because he's was a rich, connected asshole with plenty of money for the best lawyers.
However, we the public have never known for a fact that anyone else avoided prosecution vis-a-vis this NPA, only that Maxwell tried, and failed. 15 years too fucking late to have been a part of what the intent of the NPA actually was.
My bet is that Maxwell is blowing smoke, she has no idea if anyone else skated due to the NPA apart from the 4 women who were in it. I guess we'll see, won't we? If I'm wrong, I promise to admit it. I do it ALL THE TIME here and elsewhere
Mark Epstein had the birthday book and provided it to the media. The book was created by Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey's birthday, so of course she knows what's in the book. Maybe she made a copy of the book for herself? I don't know.
Ghislaine was more than just a former girlfriend of Jeffrey's. She participated in his blackmail business and functioned as a personal secretary for his pedophile activities. This meant she wrangled the high-school-age girls for his enjoyment, as well as training them in what they needed to do. She was a full partner and had to know the details, even if she didn't get financial benefit from them.
I believe Ghislaine must have gotten a share of Jeffrey's profits in the blackmail business. Otherwise she would have told the truth about him ages ago. She was with him in New York and also in West Palm Beach, but I don't know if she participated in the Virgin Island Lolita Express activities. Even if she didn't go to the island, she knew who received invitations and who participated.
I believe I read that after Jeffrey's "soft" conviction in West Palm Beach in 2008, Ghislaine pulled back and had less to do with Jeffrey's illegal activities. She stayed in New York and he tried to shield her from getting pulled into the pedophile investigation. Eventually she left his employ altogether, some time after the Giuffre lawsuit was settled.
I suppose it's *possible* but the reason I lean against it is that attempting to leverage the privilege implied by the open-ended verbiage of the 2008 non-prosecution agreement (in terms of who it applied to) was Maxwell's gambit to avoid prosecution from the START. I.E. as soon as she was indicted, "I'm included by the NPA" was her and her lawyer's immediate angle, and they argued it at the time. In the end she lost, and the prosecution went forward, obviously. At no point in the filings did her team make any claim of knowing that X number of other individuals (e.g. 25 men) had availed themselves of the privileges of the NPA (at least, not that is known, I will stipulate to).
If she DID have knowledge thereof, disclosing that information at that time was unquestionably THE TIME to do it. This would been a make or break point. If she could show that other adult abusers of the teen girls in her and Epstein's ring were protected under the BPA's terms, but not her? That would be obvious top level Exhibit A, Line 1 kinda shit. But she did not assert such, in any way, from all I've been able to dig up.
That leaves 2 possibilities, I suppose, which are a) she knew of the 25, but for some reason felt afraid to reveal it, or b) she has since come to know, or believe she knows, through some source, while in the federal pen.
So, thinking about the first possibility, my immediate thought is these people are already immune, by definition, that's the whole point. And the very authorities she's talking to are part of the entity (the DoJ) who would have extended that immunity, she's not telling them something they don't already know. She's not "exposing" anybody to new legal jeopardy by asserting that "I know you gave immunity to 25 men already". And she could've done so in that very way, not naming names, just saying "I know that happened" and they'd have had no real way of knowing she didn't actually know that. My overall, best-guess assessment would be if she could've made the argument that if 25 men were extended immunity prior to her case, that's what she would have done at the time, especially if she actually knew who they were.
The 2nd possibility seems unlikely on its face, but I think it's logical to presume that if she somehow came to know it while IN prison, then this information was almost surely fed to her by the current, non-Biden DoJ. Perhaps they discovered these "immunizations" in records they uncovered while trying to do all the redactions? IF that's the case, then it implies Trump/Bondi are actively trying to help her. I mean, how else could she come to know with ANY certainty, other than if it came from a DoJ back channel?
Which means, firstly, she's not going to be "Epsteined" as so many people on this thread are bandying about. Secondly, it doesn't mean it's actually true, because DoJ leadership are pathological liars. They'd lie to Maxwell just like they'd lie to anyone else. They could just feed her a list of 100% Democrats who Trump doesn't like, IOW. Thirdly, I would guess that the only way this gambit could work for her before the appeals board (or whoever reviews the current, new petition) is if she has a very good answer for the question "why are you just coming to us now, years hence, to make this argument about the NPA, when you did not for the past 4 or 5 years? And who exactly are you saying was previously immunized?". And what is she going to say then? And how could she possibly prove it?
In this theoretical where she's come to know of the 25 since her incarceration, the implication is almost surely that the Trump DoJ no longer cares to protect the 25 men. But they've, to date, shown no signs that they're throwing the flood gates open in this way. So if she's actually making this claim after having known all along, but not talking until now? That would imply she's defying Trump by making this claim. The guy who got her transferred to the cushy prison, her long-time friend. The guy who could, with the stroke of a pen, have her pardoned? I deem that unlikely, but possible, I suppose.
Anyways, to me it very much feels like the most likely thing that's going on is that this is a proverbial moonshot. She knew if she said this in her filing, it would be news, perhaps big news. Everyone in Trump's orbit is a pathological narcissist and liar. I think the most-likely scenario is that she's just trying to shake SOMETHING lose, and to have people talking about her. I think if she'd know about the 25 men all along, she'd have tried to make this point in her initial filings, she'd have leveraged that knowledge when there was actually a small chance of it working.
So I guess, let's see what happens next. I've made my bet about what I think is probably going on. I think the least likely scenario is that she's known all along, and has now suddenly decided to cross Trump (like everyone is hoping, it seems) and spilling the beans, but if I'm wrong, I will make a mea culpa post admitting I was wrong. I promise! 
... she knows how to play the game. Her dad was Robert Maxwell, a name that even Chump regards with respect.
The assumption is that Ghislaine received knowledge and spy training from her father. Who knows? Maybe she was the one who showed Jeffrey how to blackmail these extremely wealthy fuckers like Les Wexner etc. She wasn't raised Jewish but her father was a spy for Moshad. All I'm saying is that she was no "society dame," she was right there in the dirt along with Jeffrey. And her father might have been giving her pointers all along.
She probably has the goods on Chump. The question is, how does she play this game from prison, without getting "Epsteined"?
