Interview Transcript - Maxwell 2025.07.24 (Redacted).pdf

"I worked in his office. ... I became salaried at some point. ... my memory is that I got paid $25,000 a year to begin with."

"I believe the first thing that he purchased after was the ranch in New Mexico. ... And then he ended up buying the ranch."

"Transcript shows Todd Blanche questioning deponent Ghislaine Maxwell in a legal context."

"So in 1992, I slept with him one time and I was like, whoa, that's it. We're going to be dating, because that's how I thought."

"I know that what my dad did... But he called both Jimmy Cayne and Ace Greenberg to ask if -- what sort of guy he was"

"So I would go to his houses in Palm Beach."

"and he had a house in Ohio. ... And I had to go and decorate and put that house together."

"And I had also been working for my father at the time. I had multiple jobs with him. I was -- in 1990 I was working with a -- a new company of his, a "

"I had been running my own company up until that time, which was a company called Maxwell's Corporate Gifts."

"a new newspaper that he was launching, called The European."

"well, he'd also bought McMillan the -- the publishing house."

"And he had purchased the New York Daily News."

"And so sometime in 1991 now. We are in 1991, I met him at his offices in -- on Madison Garden."

"I interrupted you when you were saying how you were functioning as a general manager. ... in the time that you're dating, that you're with him to 2009"

"meaning he's giving you money, he's paying for your -- when you fly, he -- I assume pays for your flights. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yes. ... TODD BLANCHE: A"

"And I met someone that I fell very much in love with in 2003. His name was Ted Waitt. ... And we had an amazing relationship that ended in -- went on "

"TODD BLANCHE: You were on the plane? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yes."

"TODD BLANCHE: When you said, so Mr. Epstein was on the plane? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yes."

"You helped with the New Mexico ranch."

"Today we're doing a proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The date is July 24th and the time is 10:12 a.m. This interview is being recorded"

"David Oscar Markus, and I'm counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell"

"My name is Leah Saffian and I'm counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell"

"My name is Melissa Madrigal and I'm counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell"

"I met Mr. Epstein in 1991. I had -- I had never heard of him or met him before. And no one in my family had ever either."

"Mr. Markus reached out to me and said that -- that you wanted to speak with somebody from the government about, not only your case, but about everythi"

"Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General"

"Judge Nathan or any of the judges that's been assigned to your case"

"I oversaw the budgets... serving as like a general manager. ... you're no longer acting as his general manager?"

"in 2009, you end your relationship with Ted. ... I wanted to have a full break when I started dating Ted. ... from 2003 till 2009 or '10."

"he became arrested in 2006. ... charged and arrested in what we'll call the Florida Investigations"

"The only time that I was in touch with him was when the things happened... when the CVRA case was filed... because I needed information."

"he had told me he was deciding to redecorate the house in Palm Beach."

"you were no longer kind of acting his -- as his general manager? ... salary wise, if I'm right, it ended at around a quarter of a million a year."

"He had never stopped paying me. ... salary wise, if I'm right, it ended at around a quarter of a million a year. ... Quarter of a million. $250,000. ."

"he says to you he's going to redecorate the Palm Beach house."

"GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- is that he had some problem or some issue at Bear Stearns"

"when I was in Brooklyn, I was in the SHU for almost two years, and I was on suicide watch for almost two years"

"I ran that office. I mean, ran. I didn't -- I was responsible for the staff."

"three is Leon Black. ... You're only looking for clients, so, all right."

"Glenn Dubin was a client."

"Eva Dubin's husband."

"he would cause young women in high school to be recruited to come to his house and give him massages. And a part of -- and the -- and as part of that,"

"when you say the houses, you're talking about his New York -- ... brownstone?"

"You're talking about the residence in Palm Beach? ... Yes."

"You're talking about the island in -- in the Caribbean? ... Yes."

"John Alessi, the butler was fired in the end of 2002 and he was the thief."

"he called in the Palm Beach police and they, the Palm Beach police installed cameras on where he kept his briefcase."

"like you said, you were his general manager. As part of all your -- your duties, that was one of them? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: And I did do that."

"In December of 2001, he met DOJ REDACTION"

"TODD BLANCHE: What role did you have in that? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: He asked me to find masseuses for him."