Ghislaine Maxwell moved to Texas prison camp following meeting with deputy AG

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate and co-conspirator of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to a minimum security prison camp for women in Texas, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed Friday, Aug. 1. While the reason for the relocation was not explicitly stated, it follows a series of meetings Maxwell had in recent days with the Justice Department.

“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 Inmate Locator official Benjamin O’Cone reportedly told USA Today by email. The New York Sun was the first to report on Maxwell’s move.

Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, also confirmed that his client was moved, but declined to comment further. Bryan sits roughly 100 miles northwest of Houston.

Move follows Maxwell’s meeting with deputy AG

Last week, Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as the Department of Justice seeks information that Maxwell may have on others who committed crimes against Epstein’s victims. Those meetings, which took place in Tallahassee, Florida, lasted two days and more than nine hours. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her crimes tied to her work with Epstein.

She was formerly incarcerated at a low-security prison for men and women in Tallahassee. The facility in Bryan is a women-only prison camp described as minimum security.

According to Markus, Maxwell “answered every question” posed by Blanche. They reportedly discussed “about 100” people tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. The Justice Department has not revealed any details of the discussion.  

Meanwhile, journalist Julie Brown told The Daily Beast on Monday, July 28, that following Maxwell’s meeting with Blanche, her safety in the prison could be compromised. However, Brown added that Maxwell, “wouldn’t necessarily be safe anywhere.”

Brown, whose reporting for the Miami Herald in 2018 led to renewed scrutiny of Epstein and eventually federal charges against him and Maxwell, also told The Daily Beast Podcast on Monday that she expected Maxwell to be transferred out of Tallahassee.

“I think they’re gonna move her out of the prison that she’s in in Florida,” Brown told host Joanna Coles. “I’m sure that there’s some concern, or at least on her part,of her safety because she’s, you know, she’s really in the news right now, and she believes that Epstein was murdered. Whether you agree with that or not, I’m sure she has some safety concerns.”

Maxwell is not the only high-profile woman to be incarcerated at FPC Bryan. She will be sharing space with the disgraced tech mogul behind Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, as well as Jen Shah from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”

The story continues to grow

Maxwell is trying to get her conviction overturned by the United States Supreme Court. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has faced persistent questions about his ties to Epstein and how his administration has dealt with the case.

Trump, on July 18, filed a $10 billion lawsuit against his longtime conservative ally, Rupert Murdoch, and his newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, for publishing a story that reported new alleged ties between Trump and Epstein. In June, billionaire Elon Musk claimed on his X social media platform that Trump is in the Epstein files; Musk has since deleted the tweet. Meanwhile, the Palm Beach Post reported Tuesday, July 29, that a survivor of Epstein’s trafficking web testified that she met Trump in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when she was 14 years old.

Trump has said it’s in his purview to pardon Maxwell, although he has not stated whether he will.