Justice Department asked Ghislaine Maxwell about 100 people in probe of alleged client list

The lawyer for imprisoned Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche questioned his client about “100 different people” who are suspected of victimizing girls in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.

David Oscar Marcus talked to reporters Friday after Maxwell’s second day of meeting with Mr. Blanche. Mr. Blanche traveled to talk to her at the minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida where she’s serving a 20-year sentence on a sex-trafficking conviction.

Maxwell has asked the Supreme Court to toss her conviction and is also hoping President Trump will pardon her, now that she’s agreed to answer all of the questions posed by the Justice Department about Epstein’s so-called client list.

Mr. Marcus told reporters Maxwell “was asked about every possible thing you could imagine.”

Mr. Blanche sought to interview Maxwell after Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the so-called Epstein files possessed by the Justice Department do not include a client list.

Mr. Trump’s base of MAGA supporters believe wealthy individuals are being shielded by the Justice Department, while Democrats accused Mr. Trump of trying to hide his own involvement with Epstein. The two men were friends before parting ways in 2004.

High-profile names associated with Epstein have already been exposed in court documents from two lawsuits. Those named include former President Bill Clinton, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, tech mogul Bill Gates and many others. 

Mr. Trump’s name, like the others, appeared on Epstein’s flight logs from trips he took on the disgraced financier’s private jet in the 1990s. Mr. Trump is not known to have traveled to Epstein’s private island where some of the sex trafficking crimes took place.

Maxwell was a one-time girlfriend and companion of Epstein’s. Her brother, businessman Ian Maxwell, told Spectator TV that she knows nothing about a client list and one does not exist.

“My sister has always maintained there was never such a thing,” he said. “It never existed.”

On Friday, Mr. Trump declined to say whether he would offer Maxwell a pardon. 

“It’s something I haven’t thought about,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about.” 

Maxwell has asked the Supreme Court to throw out her conviction on the basis that she should have been shielded from prosecution under Epstein’s plea agreement in an earlier sex crime case.

Epstein committed suicide in his New York City jail cell in 2019 while he awaited prosecution on sex trafficking charges.