DOJ Releases Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

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The Justice Department has released a transcript and audio of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former associate of Jeffrey Epstein. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton breaks down the release and what it could mean.

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0:00.0	It is a busy Friday. So welcome to The Beat. I'm Antonia Hilton in tonight for Ari Melbur.
0:05.2	We are tracking two breaking stories right now, brand new material from the Epstein case and an FBI search on a former Trump official.
0:13.7	More on that later. But we start with an explosive drop from the Justice Department just hours ago releasing transcripts and audio from July
0:22.1	interviews with Jeffrey Epstein's associate Galane Maxwell, who is serving, of course,
0:26.2	20 years after being convicted of sex trafficking. Maxwell saying she never saw President Trump
0:32.5	engaging in inappropriate behavior. Did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or anybody say that President Trump had done anything
0:44.2	inappropriate with masseuses or with anybody in your world?
0:48.1	Absolutely. Never.
0:50.3	In any context.
0:51.7	Did you ever observe President Trump receiving massage?
0:56.1	Never.
0:57.5	And she denies the existence of a client list.
1:02.8	So, um, there's been, um, a lot of conversations about whether Mr. Epstein maintained like a list of people,
1:12.8	like a book of famous people that he knew.
1:20.6	It's called a Blackfork or client list or list.
1:25.1	Did you know the existence of any such list?
1:29.7	There is no list.
1:31.7	We'll start with that.
1:33.5	The genesis of that story I can actually trace for you from its absolute inception, if that is what you're interested in.
1:43.1	She also claimed she never saw Epstein taking photos of people for blackmail.
1:49.7	Did you ever, how about photographs?
1:53.2	Did you ever observe Mr. Epstein or anybody around him,
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