Maxwell’s move from Florida to Texas comes a week after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, where she answered questions “about 100 different people.”
BRYAN, Texas — Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved to a federal prison in Texas, officials have confirmed.
Maxwell had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in in Florida after being sentenced in 2022 for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
“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,” BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy said in a statement.
Maxwell’s move from Florida to Texas comes a week after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at the US attorney’s office in Tallahassee. She was interviewed for about 1.5 days and answered questions “about 100 different people,” her attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters last week.
Officials have said Epstein killed himself in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial in 2019, but his case has generated endless attention and conspiracy theories because of his and Maxwell’s links to famous people, such as royals, presidents and billionaires, including Donald Trump.
In a social media post last week, Blanche said Maxwell would be interviewed because of President Trump’s directive to gather and release any credible evidence about others who may have committed crimes.
Trump has denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago. But he faces ongoing questions about the Epstein case, overshadowing his administration’s achievements.
Earlier this month, the Justice Department said it would not release more files related to the Epstein investigation, despite promises that claimed otherwise from Attorney General Pam Bondi. The department also said an Epstein client list does not exist.
Maxwell is appealing her conviction, based on the government’s pledge years ago that any potential Epstein co-conspirators would not be charged, Markus said. Epstein struck a deal with federal prosecutors in 2008 that shifted his case to Florida state court, where he pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
Epstein in 2019 and Maxwell in 2020 were charged in federal court in New York.
The news of Maxwell’s move was first reported by the New York Sun newspaper.
What is Federal Prison Camp Bryan?
FPC Bryan is a minimum security federal prison camp for female offenders, according to its website.
According to the the Bureau of Prisons, FPCs are “minimum security institutions…[that] have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing. These institutions are work- and program-oriented.”
There are seven FCPs located throughout the country.
Approximately 635 inmates are located at FPC Bryan, the website states.
Prior to being moved to Texas, Maxwell was being housed at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tallahassee, which is also a low-security facility.
Maxwell is not the only high-profile inmate at FPC Bryan, either. Former Real Housewife Jen Shah and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes are also at FPC Bryan.
Editor’s note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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