Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump, according to newly released records meant to distance the Republican president from the disgraced financier.
“I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” Maxwell said, according to the transcript of her two-day interview last month with Deputy Attorney-General Todd Blanche.
Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), Melania Knauss, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.Credit: Getty Images
“The president was never inappropriate with anybody.”
During the interview, the imprisoned 63-year-old former British socialite also said she did not witness any sexual abuse by Epstein, her long-time boyfriend, and did not implicate any other prominent individuals in wrongdoing.
“He kept a lot to himself and he didn’t like to share,” Maxwell said of Epstein. “He was not a sharer. Well, at least not with me.”
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Maxwell also denied that Epstein maintained any “client list” when asked by Blanche.
“There is no list that I am aware of,” Maxwell said. Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges brought against her in 2020, has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.
Maxwell recalled knowing about Trump and possibly meeting him for the first time in 1990, when her newspaper magnate father, Robert Maxwell, was the owner of the New York Daily News. She said she often had been to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, sometimes alone, but hadn’t seen Trump since the mid-2000s.
