DOJ officials interviewing Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for second day

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us," David Oscar Markus said

By Natalia Mittelstadt

Published: July 25, 2025 11:20am

Updated: July 25, 2025 12:19pm

Top Department of Justice officials are to interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day on Friday.

Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, said ahead of her interview with the officials that his client "has been treated very unfairly" for more than five years, and she doesn't have a reason to lie in answering their questions, NBC News reported.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche first met with Maxwell in Tallahassee, Fla., on Thursday, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses.

The interview comes amid a national public uproar, which started with President Trump's MAGA base, about his Justice Department effectively closing campaign-promised investigations into Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex-offender who committed suicide in a New York City jail awaiting trial on additional charges related to sex offenses. Among the biggest questoins is whether Epstein, who was friends with Trump before his first charges in the early 2000s indeed had a "client list" of wealthy, influential men, and who was on it.

"If you looked up scapegoat in the dictionary, her face would be next to the definition, next to the dictionary definition of it," Markus said. "So, you know, we’re grateful for this opportunity to finally be able to say what really happened, and that’s what we’re going to do, yesterday and today."

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us, and everything she says can be corroborated, and she’s telling the truth. She’s got no reason to lie at this point, and she’s going to keep telling the truth," he added.

Following Maxwell's interview with Blanche on Thursday, Markus said, "Ms. Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability."