(24 Jul 2025)
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Tallahassee, Florida — 24 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Oscar Markus, Ghislaine Maxwell attorney:
"We’re not going to comment on the substance, but there were a lot of questions and we went all day and she answered every one of them. She never said, ‘I’m not going answer,’ never declined. You know, this is the first time the government has asked questions, so we were thankful that the deputy attorney general came and asked her questions. The first time the government did it. So it was a good day."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Oscar Markus, Ghislaine Maxwell attorney, answering question from reporter:
REPORTER: "Is there any possibility that Ms. Maxwell’s prison term could be reduced or that she could be pardoned potentially?"
ATTORNEY: "There’s no promises yet so she’s just answering questions for now."
STORYLINE:
The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has met with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The meeting between Maxwell and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is part of a Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following backlash from parts of President Donald Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional Epstein records.
"There were a lot of questions and we went all day and she answered every one of them," said David Oscar Markus, Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney.
Maxwell was convicted of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial.
Markus said his team was “thankful” the deputy attorney general came to question Maxwell, calling it a “good day.”
Asked if his client could potentially receive a pardon or see her prison term reduced, Markus said: “There’s no promises yet. So she’s just answering questions for now.”
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