NEW: DOJ Conducts ‘Productive’ Meeting With Ghislaine Maxwell

A meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced mistress of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, hinged on several “productive” trades of information made during a five-hour meeting with U.S. Justice Department officials, her attorney said Friday.

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking underage girls, offered up plenty during a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at a courthouse in downtown Tallahassee, her lawyer claimed while declining to share details about what was said.

“He took a full day and asked a lot of questions,” attorney David Oscar Markus said outside the courthouse. “She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.”

Blanche agreed to meet Maxwell earlier this week as DOJ officials sought to learn more about “who has committed crimes against victims.”

The No. 2 to Attorney General Pam Bondi said his conversations with Maxwell would continue into Friday.

“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 Thursday evening.

Maxwell has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her appeal, a request that was rebuffed by U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer last week during a federal court hearing. Through her attorney, she had teased the possibility of revealing new details about Epstein’s horrific crimes, his associates, and whether a so-called client list ever existed, the Washington Post reports.

DOJ officials are under enormous pressure to assuage public outrage after closing the case and concluding that no further charges are warranted. Supporters of President Donald Trump have eagerly awaited the full release of files and believe Epstein was a symptom, rather than a cause, of a global elite, including Democrats, who trafficked children for sexual abuse.

Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial, and Maxwell was convicted in 2022.

Responding to anger from his supporters, President Trump last week directed Bondi to pursue the release of evidence presented to a grand jury. That request was denied by a federal judge this week.

The outsized media attention on Epstein has drawn further scrutiny about Trump’s relationship with the late financier. He is suing both the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a bombshell story about a birthday card allegedly written by Trump in 2003.

Reporting on the lewd card, which contained a crude drawing of a naked woman and a salacious, imagined dialogue between both men, seemed to offer Trump a lifeline as MAGA allies condemned the paper for its “fake news” reporting and allied to the president’s defense.