Ghislaine Maxwell

Key Findings

• EFTA01660636: convicted on 29 December 2021 on five of six counts, conspiracy to entice minors to travel, conspiracy to transport minors, transportation of a minor, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor. Acquitted on Count 2, enticement of a minor to travel. Two perjury counts were severed and SDNY chose not to pursue them after the trial.
• EFTA01660636: sentenced on 28 June 2022 to 240 months (20 years), five years of supervised release and a $750,000 fine. The Guidelines range was 188 to 235 months (DOJ-OGR-00021900) and the government had sought 30 to 55 years.
• us-v-maxwell Doc 737 (sentencing transcript): Judge Alison Nathan found that Maxwell "instructed Jane, again, while she was only 14 years old, on how to massage Epstein, including instructions on how to touch his penis during massages," and that "during some of the sexual abuse, the defendant would herself touch Jane's breasts."
• EFTA02844213: the complete Maxwell Second Circuit appeal appendix (596K words) is the largest single document in the disclosure corpus. The Second Circuit affirmed her conviction and sentence on 17 September 2024, United States v. Maxwell, 118 F.4th 256 (2d Cir. 2024).
• EFTA00008631: the June 2020 SDNY indictment grand jury heard FBI testimony covering three victims. Maxwell directly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old at Zorro Ranch, pulling the sheet down to expose her chest and massaging around the breast area. The victim "felt really uncomfortable."
• EFTA00008631: recruited a 17-year-old English girl in London and presented her to Jeffrey Epstein with a "resume of her attributes" ("she's so pretty, she's so strong"), telling the victim "he needs a massage every day or I get in trouble." Jeffrey Epstein then grabbed the victim's hand to his penis.
• EFTA00008631: gave a victim a school-girl outfit at Palm Beach, "I thought it would be adorable if you gave Jeffrey his tea in this." When the victim objected, "don't be so frigid." After Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her, "I heard you did well."
• EFTA00008631: asked a victim to recruit, "do you know anyone who can give him a blow job today; I don't feel like it?" and "they have to look young at least." The victim refused because she "didn't want anyone else to go through that."
• EFTA00008631: perjured herself in the Giuffre v. Maxwell deposition (15-cv-7433), testifying under oath "I have not given anyone a massage," directly contradicted by the Zorro Ranch victim's account of Maxwell massaging her breast area.
• EFTA00008631: the 2019 raid on the New York townhouse corroborated victim testimony. The FBI found a school-girl outfit in the room next to the massage room, plus handcuffs, a whip, nude photographs of young females on the walls, and sex toys.
• EFTA00068582: at the Maxwell trial, Minor Victim-2 (recruited at Interlochen aged 13) described Maxwell approaching her at a picnic bench with a Yorkie dog. Maxwell later took part in the sexual abuse of the 14-year-old, "just showing me, you know, what he likes...what men like, what women like, you know, sort of touching on breasts and touching his penis," and that Maxwell seemed "very casual, like it was...very normal, like it was not a big deal."
• EFTA00068582: Maxwell told the 14-year-old victim that "once you fuck them, you can always fuck them again because they're grandfathered in." The victim did not understand the word "grandfathered."
• EFTA01249911: FBI FD-302. Maxwell told Interlochen staff she was bringing "their personal masseuse" to the children's summer arts camp, and acted as the "gatekeeper" for all of Jeffrey Epstein's dealings with Interlochen.
• EFTA00078311 (Case 1:19-cv-10475): the civil complaint states that at Zorro Ranch "Maxwell began pressuring [the 16-year-old] to touch Epstein and give him a foot massage." The girl "was very scared and did not want to touch Epstein, but Maxwell was relentless and demanded" that she do it.
• EFTA00158608: FBI FD-302 of a victim's brother. Maxwell told the victim's minor brother she would "teach your brother a thing or two," a sexually suggestive remark about a child.
• EFTA02731082: FBI proffer notes. Butler Juan Alessi described driving Maxwell around Palm Beach hotels and spas to collect masseuses' business cards. In summer 2002 he drove her to Mar-a-Lago, she spotted a young girl as they left, told him to stop the car and spoke with her "for about 20 to 25 minutes." The girl came to the Palm Beach house that same day and then "just about every day."
• EFTA02731082: a second employee recalled that in New Mexico Maxwell told her that "if she found a pretty girl, she should get the girl's number so that the girl can massage Epstein." The same notes record that Maxwell kept binders of nude photographs of women posed in Jeffrey Epstein's residences.
• EFTA00090773 (duplicate at EFTA00153692): FBI FD-302 about a 1 April 2005 message-pad entry from Jean-Luc Brunel, "He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is...years old not blonde" (the age itself survives only as OCR noise, "2x6" in one copy and "2x8" in the other). The staff member "knew this to mean it referenced a teenage girl." Maxwell was in the house and said "Oh, this is a funny message," then either made the employee rewrite it or rewrote it herself.
• giuffre-v-maxwell Doc 730 (15-cv-07433, 17 March 2017): the plaintiff's opposition brief records that Maxwell had moved to exclude Rule 404(b) evidence from Rinaldo Rizzo, house manager to a Maxwell friend, whose allegations included that he saw her "trying to force a 15-year-old Swedish girl to have sex with Epstein." Maxwell argued it should be discounted because Rizzo did not "report any such events to law enforcement."
• EFTA00008744: grand jury testimony that Maxwell repeatedly asked a victim whether she wanted to travel overseas. The victim said she was 14 and that her mother would not let her, and "Maxwell offered to get her a passport so she would be able to travel."
• EFTA00159394: the Palm Beach household manual (dated 2/14/2005) instructs staff to "remember that you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, except to answer a question directed at you." Maxwell is the standing security contact, to be advised of "any strange telephone calls or enquiries" and of "any unusual behavior."
• EFTA00156204: FBI FD-302 of 8 October 2021. A household worker described the room at a Jeffrey Epstein residence "where MAXWELL had asked [her] to shred books."
• EFTA00008870: message-log entry to Jeffrey Epstein dated 11 April 2005, from "G": "The Tel Aviv ticket was not a fraud. It was to get a renewal for...your 2nd valid passport. We're getting a refund for it."
• EFTA00772798 (19 July 2009): Maxwell emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a civil claimant, "How old was [the claimant]...1998 when she claims she started working for you?" and then "I'm not thinking of statute of limitations..how old was she in 99 then?" Jeffrey Epstein's reply carried the subject line "Re: 17." It contradicts the ignorance she asserted in the 2025 proffer.
• EFTA01648786: SDNY's closing argument, quoted back in a 2025 FBI email. Jeffrey Epstein paid Maxwell about $30 million between 1999 and 2007: $18.3 million in 1999, $5 million in 2002 and $7.4 million in 2007, "a total of $30.7 million." The prosecutor asked the jury "what was Maxwell doing for Epstein that was worth more than $30 million?"
• us-v-maxwell Doc 751 (GX-501, GX-506): Air Ghislaine Inc. was a JPMorgan business checking account whose corporate record names "Ghislaine Maxwell, president." On 18 June 2007 it received $7.4 million and the same day wired out $7,352,825 to Sikorsky Aircraft for a Sikorsky S76C helicopter. Pilot Dave Rodgers testified the aircraft-owning companies were controlled by Jeffrey Epstein (Doc 755).
• EFTA01582824 / EFTA01582825: on 24 August 2011 JPMorgan private banker Paul Morris asked the bank's Global Security & Investigations unit for a background investigation, and it produced a Confidential Due Diligence Report on Ghislaine Maxwell and on her entity Pot and Kettle, researched in Florida only.
• EFTA01582826: what that JPMorgan due diligence report turned up on her was almost entirely about her family, the Serious Fraud Office investigation of Robert Maxwell, the fraud charges against Kevin and Ian Maxwell, plus her own 9 August 1996 arrest on DWI charges and a 1 December 2000 article stating that "Ghislaine Maxwell's source of wealth is being classified as something of a mystery."
• usvi-v-jpmorgan Exhibit 56 (Doc 238-31, 22-cv-10904): the Virgin Islands' expert report lists "Pot and Kettle #2649" as one of nine JPMorgan accounts tied to Jeffrey Epstein whose due diligence files were "bare bones," alongside The Haze Trust, Hyperion Air, two 2007 Insurance Trusts, LSJ LLC, Lyn and Jojo LLC, Mort Inc. and Plan C LLC. ELLMAX was among four more showing "scant activity."
• EFTA01277379 / EFTA01277221: Pot & Kettle, LLC also held a UBS Financial Services business services account, statements addressed to her Miami Beach condo at 1000 Venetian Way Apt 801. EFTA00238226 records the wiring path, "Bank Name: UBS AG...For Credit to: UBS Financial Services Inc....For Final Credit to: Pot & Kettle, LLC."
• EFTA00236365 / EFTA00235830 / EFTA00299901: Delaware records POT & KETTLE, LLC as File No. 3263310 formed 21 July 2000, yet its Certificate of Formation was filed 22 December 2009 and signed by Ghislaine Maxwell. An internal Jeffrey Epstein office inventory explains the gap, listing a Pot and Kettle "Certificate of Formation and Certificate of Conversion" plus a "Pot and Kettle Assignment of Limited Partnership Interest (signed by Ghislaine and Duke of York)."
• EFTA00065551: an internal Maxwell entity schedule lists roughly a dozen vehicles, with both Pot & Kettle LLC and Temporary Cookware LLC recorded as "investment in unquoted securities," alongside Angara Trust, Montpelier Trust, ELLMAX LLC, Max Foundation and the TerraMar entities. JPMorgan's own KYC could not confirm Pot & Kettle's state, domicile or tax id.
• EFTA00238143 / EFTA00238204: Maxwell used Pot & Kettle to fund CargoMetrics Technologies LLC, the maritime-data firm founded by Scott Borgerson, her romantic partner, at whose Manchester-by-the-Sea home she lived. On 19 April 2016 she wired $66,000 to CargoMetrics and moved $70,000 from personal savings into Pot & Kettle to cover it; on 13 June 2016 she moved $60,000 in and sent $50,000 out the same way.
• EFTA00238226 (20 June 2016): "A portion of the wire that went out to CargoMetrics is being sent back to Pot & Kettle ($25k)." Her tax return package for the period carries a Schedule E partnership passthrough and a partner-basis worksheet for CARGOMETRICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (EFTA00025624).
• EFTA00239488 (December 2018): CargoMetrics closed its Compass funds effective 31 December 2018. Its Denis Dietz describes the redemption thread as "the email I sent regarding Temporary Cookware," puts the preliminary unaudited NAV at about $1,035,313 and wires it to UBS "FFC: Cookware a/c." Borgerson, with Ghislaine Maxwell copied, then directs that the $1,035,313 "needs to be wired into Angara (now Montpelier)," two further entities on her schedule.
• EFTA00224262 / EFTA00190062: listed as "Ghislaine Maxwell, TREAS./DIR" on The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc. (EIN 13-3996471) Form 990-PF returns, Jeffrey Epstein's private foundation, each filed under penalty of perjury. Jeffrey Epstein signs as Pres/Dir and Darren K. Indyke as Vice President/Dir on the same schedules, and all three declare one hour a week and zero compensation.
• EFTA00224262: the C.O.U.Q. Foundation grant schedules she signed as Treasurer were transcribed from the page images and each reconciles against its own printed total, $6,353,563 across 97 recipients, including $938,195 to Harvard. Treat that as a floor: the largest single year of distributions is a return that is missing, and four further Jeffrey Epstein charitable vehicles exist whose giving cannot be seen.
• EFTA00224262: a 2008 Florida corporate record in the same bundle shows the foundation had by then moved to 250 S Australian Ave, West Palm Beach, with officers JEFFREY E EPSTEIN, DARREN K INDYKE and RICHARD KAHN.
• EFTA02857524 (1 May 2007): the Operation Leap Year prosecution memo records that "Banasiak was directed to give money by Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is the daughter of the late Robert Maxwell...Maxwell is credited with bringing Epstein into high society...Maxwell also has been implicated in another act of molesting a young girl."
• EFTA02858461: Banasiak's own notes record being interviewed for employment by GM (Maxwell) at her townhouse between Park and Lexington, a 30-minute interview covering previous work, food preferences and phone protocols.
• EFTA02731341 (2003): a victim diary page, decoded from its 2-rail fence cipher, reads "have to ask Ghislane for help. If anyone can make it stop it would be her" (page 13). The surrounding page describes a forced medical procedure.
• HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_005727: a Hyperion Air passenger manifest for N909JE, 1 September 2006, Luton (EGGW) to Edinburgh (EGPH). Jeffrey Epstein is listed first and struck through as not on board. The passengers are Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, one redacted name and "Crasnasky."
• HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_007143 / HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_007220: two more 2006 N909JE manifests with Jeffrey Epstein struck through as not on board. Toulon to Bergerac, France on 28 August 2006 with her brother Kevin Maxwell and one redacted passenger; Teterboro to St. Thomas on 24 September 2006 with Lance Calloway and two redacted passengers. Maxwell used the aircraft independently of Jeffrey Epstein, including a domestic French leg with her own family.
• EFTA02770202 (2011): attorney Bradley Edwards learned through depositions that Maxwell managed Jeffrey Epstein's affairs and companies, and that Alfredo Rodriguez testified she photographed girls without their knowledge, kept child pornography on a computer, and helped recruit underage victims.
• EFTA02770202: Maxwell avoided a deposition by lying. Her attorney said her mother was "deathly ill" and that Maxwell was flying to England with no intention of returning. In fact she attended the Chelsea Clinton wedding on 31 July 2010 and was photographed for OK! Magazine.
• EFTA02770202: the Jane Doe 102 complaint alleged that Maxwell found a 15-year-old victim, lured her to Jeffrey Epstein's house, forced her to have sex with both Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, then flew her worldwide as a sex slave for years, forced to have sex with "politicians, businessmen, royalty, academicians."
• EFTA00038227 (8 October 2019; duplicates at EFTA00147024, EFTA00147027, EFTA00147954, EFTA00152580): an FBI briefing email lists her by name under the government's own heading "Co-conspirators": "Ghislaine Maxwell: Attorney proffer on 10/8/19." That is fourteen months before her July 2020 arrest. The same section lists Leslie Groff and further redacted names by proffer status, one marked "Cooperating. Two proffers have been conducted."
• EFTA01660632: the FBI case briefing's proffer page separates "FBI-attended Proffers" (Les Wexner, Abigail Wexner, Larry Visoski, David Rodgers) from "SDNY Attorney Proffers," where Ghislaine Maxwell is listed "(Attorney only)."
• EFTA02857845 (24 August 2020): FBI 302 of a victim's mother. Steve Heusinger warned her that "MAXWELL is from a really bad family," that Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell were too rich and powerful to fight, and that they could make her daughter "disappear." The daughter was "scared of MAXWELL" and moved many times.
• EFTA02730267 (February 2022): an FBI New York tactical intelligence report on a potential defense witness, Malcolm Grumbridge, a Maxwell family associate removed from the Solicitors Regulation Authority roll for rule breaches.
• The July 2025 proffer: over two days, 24 and 25 July 2025, Maxwell was questioned under use immunity by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who had been one of President Trump's personal defense lawyers (EFTA00160472). EFTA01660638 logs it as "DOJ interview of Maxwell - 7/24/2025, 7/25/2025." Day 1 survives as a 263-page typed transcript, Day 2 as audio at DOJ-OGR-00022994 to DOJ-OGR-00022999.
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022986, DOJ-OGR-00022988): categorically denied any blackmail operation. She said she had built, decorated and wired the houses and "never wired nor saw a single house that had any type of inappropriate...video surveillance," and on the alleged client list, "there is no list...there is no client list, nothing like that."
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022989): asked whether she had ever had contact with anyone she understood to be from Mossad, Maxwell answered "Well, not deliberately." It is her only non-categorical denial in the day's testimony.
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022990): on Jeffrey Epstein's death, "I do not believe he died by suicide." She attributed it to prison violence: "In prison, they will kill you, or they will pay, somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary."
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022986): reading from notes she had written in advance, she named Jeffrey Epstein's clients as Les Wexner, Jes Staley, Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, Elizabeth Johnson of Johnson & Johnson, and Lynn Forester (later Lynn de Rothschild). Asked who else was in his life in the early 1990s she added Congressman McMillen, Henry Rosovsky, Joe Pagano, Jerry Goldsmith, Joe Roberts, Kenny Lipper, Dan Abramson, Tom Pritzker, Ace Greenberg, Jimmy Cayne and Lou Ranieri.
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022986): asked which prominent 1990s friends had received massages she answered "all of them," singling out Harvard provost Henry Rosovsky because "I saw him in a bathrobe at 71st Street and he had received a massage." Rosovsky appears in 494 corpus documents.
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022986): admitted recruiting masseuses, "I would go to massage spas...I never, ever checked their age and I never checked their credentials." She said that after the victim she introduced left, every masseuse who followed came through that victim and her boyfriend Tony Figueroa, "and that is how it started."
• Proffer Day 1 (DOJ-OGR-00022988): claimed the photograph of her with Prince Andrew and a victim is "literally a fake photo," arguing the outfit she is wearing came from her mother's birthday party, and said of Prince Andrew and the victim "I do not know that they met."
• Proffer Day 1: on Bill Gates she said she met him at the TED conference rather than through Jeffrey Epstein. The transcripts of this answer disagree on one word: the machine transcript of the recording (DOJ-OGR-00022989) has "I met him there, but we weren't friendly", while the typed transcript and a second machine reading of the same recording have "we were friendly". Nobody has listened to the recording to settle which she said.
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022994): said Jeffrey Epstein did not know George Soros, "I don't think he knew him. I did, but I don't think he did," explaining that she knew Soros through his children and met him socially in the Hamptons.
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022994): met Elon Musk around 2010 or 2011 at a birthday gathering arranged by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, not through Jeffrey Epstein. She met Larry Summers through Jeffrey Epstein. She said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knew Jeffrey Epstein because "we went on a trip together. We went to dinosaur bone hunting in the Dakotas."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022994): claimed she was "very, very central" to the launch of the Clinton Global Initiative, and said she introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann through the Santa Fe Institute, a connection she traced to her father's scientific publishing business, Pergamon Press.
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022995): key admissions. Asked "did you ever observe Mr. Epstein masturbating during a massage" she answered "Yes...when I'd seen him on a massage table, I had seen him masturbate," and confirmed seeing it with a naked woman present. On recruiting: "I did look for masseuses...And, of course, if she was attractive, I did introduce her, yes."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022995): said of the trial witness "Jane" that "I knew that she was a young child...but I don't believe he met her until she was 16," and therefore that "the entire testimony of the 14, 15 and 16-year-old is...not accurate."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022995): a rare admission of collective culpability, "the people around him, myself included, obviously, normalized his behavior on a number of fronts."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022995): victim-blaming. She said that in the 2000s the underage women "were actually targets of the investigation and could have been charged with prostitution and trafficking, if trafficking was even a law."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022995): told the Deputy Attorney General that Jeffrey Epstein's circle included "some in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers."
• Proffer Day 2 (DOJ-OGR-00022997): said Jeffrey Epstein had told her he suffered erectile dysfunction, but that "he liked blowjobs...and he didn't seem to have any erectile dysfunction for blowjobs. But sex, he didn't have." She used that to dispute the rape allegations while corroborating the oral-sex and masturbation accounts, and admitted telling women what he liked.
• EFTA02842934 (Doc 804, August 2025): victims' attorney Sigrid McCawley alleged that Maxwell is "attempting to escape justice by negotiating for herself a potential pardon."
• EFTA02842971 (Doc 809, August 2025): Judge Engelmayer denied the DOJ motion to unseal the Maxwell grand jury transcripts, finding the materials contain "next to nothing new," because the grand juries met for single days, heard only hearsay summaries, and produced nothing beyond what was already public from the trial.
• House Oversight Committee, February 2026 (data/transcripts/maxwell-deposition.html): in a virtual deposition under subpoena she invoked the Fifth Amendment to every substantive question about recruitment, grooming and trafficking. Her attorney David Oscar Marcus opened by saying "Ghislaine Maxwell will respectfully invoke her fifth amendment right to silence," and that she "is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump."
• Alias 'Jennifer Turner': a witness told the FBI that 'While MAXWELL was in Massachusetts, she went by a different name. "JENNIFER TURNER" was MAXWELL's name of choice' (EFTA01249968). American Express records list JENNIFER TURNER beside G MAXWELL on the ELLMAX LLC account from 2010 to 2015 (EFTA00037703), and an FBI record of the ellmax.com registration names 'Jennifer Turner' and calls it an 'alias of Epstein's friend' (EFTA00174878).
• Alias 'Janet Marshall': at her bail hearing the prosecutor said the buyers of the New Hampshire house introduced themselves to the real estate agent 'as Scott and Janet Marshall, who both have British accents', and that after the arrest the agent recognised 'the person who had introduced herself as Janet Marshall' as Ghislaine Maxwell (EFTA00066216).