Ghislaine Maxwell remains confident she can receive a presidential pardon from Donald Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer admitted at a lawyer’s conference on Friday that Maxwell is still seeking a pardon from Donald Trump after the Epstein files were made public. Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, addressed this during a roundtable discussion where he discussed media strategy with Barry Pollack, the lawyer for the US-kidnapped Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro.
The lawyers talked about how public opinion is shaped by a media appearance about a defendant, in this conversation Markus said that they always hope for a presidential pardon. “Ms. Maxwell is ready to speak fully and honestly if the president grants her a pardon,” the lawyer said earlier, and in the current conversation he explained that whatever image the public has of Maxwell, she could be pardoned.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 61, Epstein’s former lover, friend and business partner, was sentenced in June 2024 to twenty years in prison for sex trafficking of minors. Maxwell has consistently pleaded not guilty. The Supreme Court rejected his appeal against the sentence. We wrote more about Maxwell’s family background, his years with Epstein and his later life here. In the summer of 2025, Trump talked about the possibility of granting a presidential pardon to Maxwell, but no one asked him to do so and he does not know anything about the case.
Maxwell’s case gained more attention again after Donald Trump promised to release the Epstein files even before his inauguration, and this was met with outbursts of joy by his followers. This started in February, but a few months later the Ministry of Justice announced that, based on their investigation, Epstein had indeed committed suicide, as evidenced by security camera footage. This was not received very well in the MAGA world, and despite Trump’s attempts to resolve the matter, he could not calm down his supporters.
(Politico)
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