Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny amid her claims of innocence

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 12:06 AM EST, December 25, 2025


NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.

The disclosure of the transcripts as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing release of its investigative files on Maxwell and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exposed how an FBI agent told grand jurors about Maxwell’s critical role in Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of girls and young women.

Maxwell, a British socialite and publishing heir, was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021 after four women told a federal jury in New York City about how she and Epstein abused them in the 1990s and early 2000s. Epstein never went to trial. He was arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges and killed himself a month later in his cell at a Manhattan federal jail.

Two weeks ago, as the Justice Department prepared to begin releasing what are commonly known as the Epstein files, Maxwell filed a habeas petition, asking a federal judge to free her on grounds that “substantial new evidence” has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Well, I would like to think a judge would see all that has gone on--beyond what might be presented in court

(they are human, after all) and find a way to send her back to serve her sentence in the prison originally assigned. Short of that, I hope all coming out puts pressure on R's to tell Trump he will be impeached sans any R support in the next session if he pardons her. He doesn't really care about repercussions for his actions, but the cumulative case against him has become incredibly strong.

[sop]

2. The DOJ knew about all this when they sent Ghislaine to club fed and gave her a puppy.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. 'British socialite and publishing heir'

Her father's bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

[efhmc]

8. He was quite the shyster.

[travelingthrulife]

4. Gee..ya think?

[paleotn]

5. Three words....dead woman switch.

But she's also in purgatory. They dare not harm her or even make her stay difficult. But they cannot release her. Period. EOM. She's in limbo for the duration. Once Donnie is gone, there may be a reckoning, though I have serious doubts. If so, she'll be a star witness in destroying some people who deserve to be destroyed.

And AP, stop saying Epstein committed suicide like it's settled fact. It isn't. This is kind of like Richard Dreyfus in Jaws confronting the local coroner...."this is not a boat accident! It wasn't any propeller! It wasn't any coral reef! And it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark!"

[FakeNoose]

10. I really, really hope you're right about this

However I don't get the sense that Ghislaine gets joy from putting other people in prison. She's not addicted to getting revenge like Chump is, or even like Jeffrey Epstein was. She just wants to find a way out of this nightmare without drawing any more attention to herself.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But if the DoJ ever springs her out of prison, I believe Ghislaine will be on the first plane out of the US and she'll never return.

[flamingdem]

6. "Maxwell, a British socialite and publishing heir"

As in - did not even need the money. Eeek.

[efhmc]

7. I believe her name and the word innocence should never be on the same page.

[Aussie105]

9. Will she go back to jail?

Or was she on the list of names to be redacted from the murky Epstein files?