Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual WIE Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the sex offender accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a less restrictive federal lockup in Texas, her attorney confirmed to NBC News on Friday.
Maxwell’s transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons minimum security camp in Bryan, Texas, came after two days of meetings she and her lawyer had last week in Tallahassee, Florida, with a top Justice Department official.
Mawell’s lawyer did not explain why the 63-year-old was transferred from the federal minimum security prison in Tallahassee.
Maxwell was convicted at trial in 2021 of crimes related to grooming underage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The exterior of Federal Correctional Facility (FCI) Tallahassee, a low security prison with a detention center, is seen from outside its perimeter fence in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. July 24, 2025.
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell for hours last week after saying he was interested in learning whether she had information about other potential abuses of girls and women in Epstein’s orbit.
Blanche asked Maxwell “maybe about 100 different people,” her lawyer David Oscar Markus said last week.
Blanche’s meeting raised questions about whether the Trump administration will seek a reduction of Maxwell’s sentence or whether President Donald Trump will pardon her.
The Justice Department and Trump have been criticized for nearly a month for failing to release evidence accumulated in an investigation into Epstein despite prior promises to make that information public.
The New York Sun first reported that Maxwell had been transferred from her prison in Florida.
Epstein died in August 2019 from a jailhouse suicide, weeks after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
This is developing news. Check back for updates.
