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But when Maxwell’s legal team responded, the message was clear: she won’t say a word unless she’s granted immunity—and she refuses to speak inside a prison setting. Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, laid out her conditions in a letter dated Tuesday.
“Ms. Maxwell cannot risk further criminal exposure in a politically charged environment without formal immunity,” Markus wrote, calling the idea of testifying without legal protection a “non-starter.”
He went even further, saying the prison setting itself is unacceptable. “Nor is a prison setting conducive to eliciting truthful and complete testimony. The potential for leaks from such a setting creates real security risks and undermines the integrity of the process,” Markus added.
In what some are calling a shocking display of entitlement, Maxwell’s attorney even scolded lawmakers, accusing them of dismissing her credibility before hearing her out. “Some members of Congress appear to have prejudged Ms. Maxwell’s credibility without even listening to what she has to say or evaluating the extensive documentation that corroborates it,” the letter claimed.
Markus also reminded the committee that Maxwell is still appealing her conviction—now before the U.S. Supreme Court. He warned that any public statements now could “compromise her constitutional rights, prejudice her legal claims, and potentially taint a future jury pool.”
In short: Maxwell isn’t budging. If forced to appear, she’ll simply invoke the Fifth Amendment over and over again. “She will claim her Fifth Amendment rights as often as they want,” Markus warned.
Still, there was one offer on the table—an audacious one. Markus said that if Maxwell is granted clemency, she would be “willing — and eager — to testify openly and honestly, in public, before Congress in Washington, D.C.”
“She welcomes the opportunity to share the truth and to dispel the many misconceptions and misstatements that have plagued this case from the beginning,” he wrote.
Markus also played the victim card for his client, insisting she had suffered in custody. “Ms. Maxwell did not receive a fair trial,” he claimed. He even said a 2008 document should’ve protected her from prosecution and criticized her pretrial conditions as “torturous.”
Maxwell, according to her attorney, spent nearly two years in solitary confinement before her trial. “Conditions that violated her constitutional rights,” Markus argued.
In a development that adds more intrigue, Maxwell recently sat down with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. That meeting was reportedly part of a Justice Department effort to determine what—if anything—can be made public about Epstein and his powerful circle of “friends.”
This all follows public outcry earlier this year after the DOJ declared there was “no client list” and that it would not release any further details on Epstein’s criminal network. That decision sparked massive backlash across party lines, as Americans continue to demand transparency and justice.
At the heart of it all, Ghislaine Maxwell—Epstein’s longtime accomplice—may know more than anyone else about who was involved in his island of horrors. But unless Congress plays by her rules, she’s keeping her secrets locked away.
