Ghislaine Maxwell, who Sources told ABC News began meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for approximately nine hours more than two days after a limited form of immunity, the sources said.
Immunity allowed Maxwell to answer the questions of the attached attorney general Blanche without fear that his answers could be used later against her, the sources said.
The so -called immunity offered is commonly granted to people that prosecutors seek to make cooperators in a criminal case. Maxwell has already been judged, convicted and sentenced by minor girls of sex trafficking.
Archive – Audrey Strauss, a lawyer as a US prosecutor for the South District of New York, points out a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a press conference in New York on July 2, 2020.
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The DOJ did not immediately respond to the request for comments. A Maxwell lawyer did not respond immediately.
The second meeting between Maxwell and Blanche lasted approximately three hours.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, told ABC News later: “There have been no questions or promises.”
Markus said Maxwell was asked about “perhaps 100 different people” during his interview with the deputy attorney general. He said she answered all the questions.
“She stopped anything,” Markus said.
He refused to be specific about who asked Maxwell or if she provided information about others who had allegedly committed crimes against the victims, since Blanche said she was looking for.
“We have not asked for anything. This is not a situation in which we are asking for anything in exchange for testimony or something,” Markus added on Friday. “Of course, everyone knows that Mrs. Maxwell would welcome any relief.”
Blanche did not talk to journalists upon arrival at the Federal Justice Palace in Tallahassee, Florida. In social networks, Blanche said he would reveal what he learned from Maxwell “at the appropriate time.”
Archive – Audrey Strauss, a lawyer as a US prosecutor for the South District of New York, points out a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a press conference in New York on July 2, 2020.
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The first meeting between Maxwell and Blanche on Thursday lasted six hours.
Maxwell is currently appealing his 20 -year prison sentence for child sexual trafficking and other crimes in relation to Epstein, the deceased and criminal financial financial party.
“We do not want to enter the substance of the questions,” Markus said about Thursday’s meeting. “There were many questions and we went all day and she answered each of them. She never said ‘I’m not going to answer’, she never rejected.”
It is almost unknown that a sentenced sex trafficker meets an official of the High Ranking Department of Justice, especially one who used to be the president’s main criminal defense lawyer.
The chief correspondent of the White House of Abc News, Mary Bruce, asked President Donald Trump on Friday if Clemency is on the table for Maxwell.
“I can’t talk about that now because, you know, it’s a very sensitive interview,” Trump replied. Then he called Blanche a “great lawyer” and said: “I don’t know exactly what is happening. But I can’t certainly talk about Indones.”
ABC News Bruce was also pressed by Bruce de ABC News if you can trust what Maxwell is telling the Department of Justice during these interviews.
“Well, he is a professional lawyer. He has gone through things like he is before,” Trump said, referring to Blanche.
After Trump’s comments on Friday on Clemency, ABC News asked Maxwell’s lawyer if that gave him an incentive to tell Blanche what he wanted to hear.
“No,” Markus replied. “She means the truth.”
Markus said Maxwell’s legal team has not approached Trump about forgiveness, but suggested that it could happen in the future.
“We have not yet talked to the president or anyone about a forgiveness. And listening, the president said that he had the power to do so, so we hope he exerts that power on the right and just,” he said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Blanche considers that the president of the United States, Donald Trump (not in the frame) speaks during a press conference in the Brady Information Chamber of the White House on June 27, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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Annie Farmer, who testified against Maxwell at the trial, questioned why Maxwell was awarded a meeting with the attached attorney general.
“It is very disappointing that these things are happening behind closed doors without any contribution of the people that the government requested that it be presented and spoke against them to keep it,” Farmer said. “There were so many girls and women who were damaged by her.”
Maxwell’s lawyer said Friday that he has been treated badly during the last five years and is grateful to meet Blanche while his sentence for sex trafficking appeals and seeks to get out of prison.
“If you were looking for scapegoat in the dictionary, his image would be next to the definition,” Markus said. “She keeps her spirit in the best she can.”
Blanche meetings with Maxwell occur when the Department of Justice has tried to calm the calls of the Senate Republicans to publish more information about Epstein and their interaction with high profile figures.
And it occurs when the questions revolve on Trump’s connections with Epstein and reports that his name appeared in Epstein files.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name was mentioned in Epstein’s archives several times, along with other high profile.
Trump has denied that account, and appearing in the files is not necessarily indicative of any irregularity.
“I want all the information,” said Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
“Simply present everything, do it as transparent as possible,” echoed the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
The Department of Justice said earlier this month that he planned not to publish additional information despite a previous commitment to do so.
