The brother of convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell said his sister has no information about a list of wealthy clients who participated in a sex trafficking ring run by the duo.
Businessman Ian Maxwell made the claim on a YouTube show this month hosted by Spectator TV.
He said those hunting for an alleged Epstein client list aren’t likely to find one from his imprisoned sister.
“My sister has always maintained there never was such a thing. It never existed,” Mr. Maxwell said.
His sister has become the focus of the U.S. government’s renewed investigation into whether a list of wealthy and powerful men victimized Epstein’s sex-trafficked girls, some of whom were as young as 14.
President Trump wants the Justice Department to release any credible information on such a list, and Congress has subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell and the criminal files on the case.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday met for a second day with Maxwell to find out if she knows more about wealthy clients who engaged in sex with the trafficked girls.
Mr. Maxwell said his sister did not receive a fair trial and blamed a federal judge for sealing the government’s evidence, which could include exculpatory information that would help exonerate his sister.
Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a Supreme Court review of her case on the grounds that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a previous plea agreement made by Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his New York City jail cell in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.
Mr. Maxwell said he believes Epstein may have paid somebody to kill him, which the Brit called “suicide by internal killing on the grounds where perhaps he couldn’t see there was any exit for what was coming down the pike.”
Epstein was facing federal sex trafficking charges.
Ghislaine Maxwell was also charged with sex trafficking and was convicted of the crime in 2021. She is serving a 20-year sentence in a Tallahassee, Florida, prison.
On Friday, Mr. Trump declined to say whether he would offer Maxwell a pardon.
“It’s something I haven’t thought about,” he said. “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about.”
Mr. Maxwell said of the low-security facility where his sister is imprisoned, “The food is atrocious, the conditions are really bad. We are hoping maybe she would be able to transfer.”
He said he wants a retrial “and potentially an exoneration.”
Maxwell described his sister as regretting having ever met Epstein and said the relationship between the two has been misrepresented.
They were involved in a romantic relationship in the 1990s, he said, “and I think that he certainly broke her heart at some point.”
They did not live together, he said.
Epstein, whom he met once, seemed intelligent.
“You could tell he had a certain charisma. He asked very pointed questions, but it was all about eliciting information that might be helpful, valuable to him,” Mr. Maxwell said. “It’s quite clear that he did have a kind of Svengali control over people.”
• Susan Ferrechio can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
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