Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump, according to records released Friday meant to distance the Republican president from the disgraced financer.
The Trump administration issued hundreds of pages of transcripts from interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Maxwell last month as the administration was scrambling to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.
In the interest of transparency, @TheJusticeDept is releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The transcript and audio are linked below. t.co/TQW5migemm
— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) August 22, 2025The records show Maxwell repeatedly showering Trump with praise and denying under questioning from Blanche that she had observed Trump engaged in any form of sexual behavior. The administration was presumably eager to make such denials public at a time when the president has faced questions about a long-ago friendship with Epstein and as his administration has endured continued scrutiny over its handling of evidence from the case.
The transcript disclosure represents the latest Trump administration effort to repair self-inflicted political wounds after failing to deliver on expectations that its own officials had created through conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that never came to pass. By making public two days worth of interviews, officials appear to be hoping to at least temporarily keep at bay sustained anger from Trump’s base even as they send Congress evidence that they had previously kept from view.
Blanche prefaced the interview by saying Maxwell, a onetime socialite who was convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, had been given limited immunity, allowing her to speak freely without fear of prosecution for anything she said. The only exceptions, he said, were if she lied or gave statements inconsistent with what she’d previously said.
“I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting,” Maxwell said, according to the transcript. “I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Maxwell told Blanche she believes she first met Trump in 1990 — before she met Epstein.
“I may have met Donald Trump at that time, because my father was friendly with him and liked him very much,” she said, referring to Robert Maxwell, who owned the New York Daily News at the time.
“President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him,” she said.
Maxwell said Epstein and Trump were “friendly” but “I don’t think they were close friends.”
Maxwell told Blanche she never witnessed Trump or former President Bill Clinton doing anything inappropriate, according to the transcript.
Blanche asked Maxwell whether she remembered the names of people who had sent letters to contribute to a 50th birthday album for Epstein in 2003.
“It’s been so long. I want to tell you, but I don’t remember,” Maxwell said.
Blanche was referring to a Wall Street Journal article that reported Trump was among those who submitted a letter to the book more than two decades ago. NBC News has not independently verified the documents, and the president has denied submitting a letter.
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Asked if she remembered Trump submitting a letter, card or note, Maxwell responded: “I don’t.”
Maxwell was also asked whether she remembered seeing the book or any portion of the letters in her discovery in New York, and she said she did, but that “there was nothing from President Trump.”
Pressed again on whether Trump had submitted a letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday, Maxwell said, “I do not remember.” Maxwell also said she did not have a recollection of a letter containing a drawing of a naked woman.
Trump sued the Journal last month for $10 billion in damages and a jury trial over the report.
In the interview, Maxwell claimed she never saw Epstein taking photos or videos of other people for the purposes of blackmail.
“Did you ever hear, when you were present for conversations that Mr. Epstein was having, or others were having, anybody accuse him of blackmailing them or of trying to extort them, because of something Mr. Epstein knew?,” Blanche asked.
“No,” Maxwell replied.
After her interview, Maxwell was moved from the low-security federal prison in Florida where she had been serving a 20-year sentence to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. Neither her lawyer nor the federal Bureau of Prisons have explained the reason for the move.
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