Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has been quietly transferred from a Florida federal prison to a lower-security facility in Texas as she seeks a pardon from President Donald Trump.
Maxwell’s move out of Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee was confirmed by the Bureau of Prisons on Friday, amid her push for a deal to speak on the late Epstein and be released.
‘We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,’ stated BOP inmate locator official Benjamin O’Cone.
The reason Maxwell, 63, was moved was not immediately clear.
Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus also confirmed that his client was sent to the Texas facility but said ‘we have no other comment’, according to USA Today.
The disgraced British socialite in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years for helping convicted sex offender Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. About a month after her sentencing, she was transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to FCI Tallahassee, which is a ‘low security’ prison for men and women.
FCP Bryan is a ‘minimum security’ camp only housing women.
Maxwell was interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of the Justice Department for two straight days last week. She ‘answered every single question’ and ‘never invoked a privilege, never declined to answer’, Markus said.
The Justice Department brokered the interview despite asking the US Supreme Court to reject Maxwell’s appeal of her conviction. The Trump administration continues to face criticism after the Justice Department and FBI last month said there is no incriminating Epstein client list, breaking from an earlier promise to disclose the documents.
Trump has not ruled out pardoning Maxwell.
‘I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about,’ he said a week ago.
Markus said of a possible commutation for Maxwell: ‘The president said earlier he has the power to do so, we hope he exercises that power in the right way.’
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