Ghislaine Maxwell Seen With ‘Mysterious Box’ After ‘Productive’ DOJ Meeting

Ghislaine Maxwell returned to her federal holding cell on Friday with a mysterious box that she appeared to receive after speaking with prosecutors, leaving observers to wonder what she’d been handed.

Maxwell, 63, was seen shackled and accompanied by guards after meeting with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday. She was transported in a white sedan back to the FCI Tallahassee prison complex, where she’s been serving a 20-year sentence on underage sex-trafficking charges since 2022.

Handcuffed and dressed in a brown prison jumpsuit, Maxwell was escorted through barbed wire fencing as a guard trailed behind her holding the box.

They and a second guard stood outside the building for nearly two minutes before being let inside.

Sources familiar with Thursday’s meeting said she had returned from the U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, where she met with Blanche, a source said.

“Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time,” Blanche wrote on X after the meeting.

He added that Maxwell reportedly answered questions “honestly,” underscoring a level of trust building between Maxwell and the U.S. Justice Department.

Topics of discussion weren’t detailed by either side, but Maxwell’s attorney, Oscar Markus, thanked Blanche for being generous with his time to come and learn what his client may still reveal about Jeffrey Epstein.

“We are grateful that the government is trying to uncover the truth. They have never before spoken with her and we trust the process,” Markus wrote on X.

Maxwell is serving out her sentence in Florida after a Manhattan jury found her guilty of grooming underage girls for the sexual gratification of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019. She has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a 2009 non-prosecution agreement was unlawfully ignored when she was convicted, according to the NY Post.

During a hearing last week, DOJ lawyers disputed Maxwell’s characterization of the agreement, saying it only applied to the U.S. attorney’s office in Florida.

She has offered to share riveting new details about Epstein’s abuse and powerful circle of associates, some of whom have been implicated in the discovery of a 2003 book of messages congratulating Epstein on his 50th birthday.

President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and others have been alleged to have submitted letters to Epstein. Trump has denied that a crude message under his name was his, and he sued the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for publishing a story about the birthday messages.