Interview Transcript - Maxwell 2025.07.24-cft (Redacted).pdf

"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"

"before we start formally asking questions of Ms. Maxwell, I'm going to put on the record everybody that's in this room"

"I met Mr. Epstein in 1991. I had -- I had never heard of him or met him before."

"Todd Blanche. I'm the Deputy Attorney General."

"Spencer Horn of FBI, New York."

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

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

"And that includes up to when I was indicted and prosecuted."

"I worked in his office. So I would go to the office and I would see him... my responsibilities increased with each acquisition that he had and each ne"

"And then he ended up buying the ranch. I think, if I'm right, it came from -- well, the Kings who may have been the governor"

"I view my role, was as a general manager. I became salaried at some point. My memory is that I got paid $25,000 a year to begin with."

"We were never sleeping together again. So we stopped having sexual relations in 1999."

"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 unti"

"You helped with the New Mexico ranch."

"When did Mr. Epstein purchase the island? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I want to say '96 or '97"

"Ted Waitt, you may know as the founder of Gateway, the computers."

"And I ran all the properties, the staff in the properties, the management of the properties that -- and all the construction."

"You then start your own relationship with another individual from -- with Ted from 2003 till 2009 or '10."

"He was generous with me. He let me use the plane, for instance, which was very generous"

"whatever happened in 2005 and he became arrested in 2006. ... charged and arrested in what we'll call the Florida Investigations"

"that his -- his mother, Paula, had been in a very serious car crash."

"Epstein called me and asked me if I could look after her. And by looking after her, that meant organizing her doctors, making sure she had new clothes"

"I was still around... I would like you to stay on board to manage the properties, the animals, this and that, and just stay put and I'll continue to p"

"And how were you paid? W2... it increased from what you said was you thought about $25,000 to $250,000."

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

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

"He had never stopped paying me. ... Quarter of a million. $250,000."

"He was working at Dalton, he was a math teacher."

"once you're part of his life in the early to mid '90s"

"He was at Morgan Stanley and at Barclays."

"He was at Morgan Stanley and at Barclays."

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

"Glenn Dubin was a client."

"GHISLAINE MAXWELL: It would be a combination of both. He certainly told me that and I heard him talk to people like that."

"TODD BLANCHE: Know someone named Jes Staley. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yeah. I do know Jes."

"Some of them, absolutely, because they were in his house. Some of these pictures were on his, you know, credenza or whatever."

"one of the things that was definitely missing in my trial, and definitely missing from the narrative"

"But in the criminal case, I received videos of Epstein talking to women and stuff like that."

"TODD BLANCHE: Did you -- I understand you said you got those in the discovery. Did you know those -- those pictures -- pictures like that existed?"

"he abused young women. ... he would sexually abuse them, okay?"

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

"his New York -- brownstone? ... as in 71st Street, the physical plant."

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

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

"And you're talking about the ranch in New Mexico?"

"Anywhere else? Paris."

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