Ghislaine Maxwell’s Family Breaks Their Silence With Mind-Boggling Claim

One day after the U.S. Department of Justice shot down Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest plea for freedom, her family has come forward to support her bid — and made a mind-boggling claim about her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid crimes.

Family members broke their silence after Solicitor General John Sauer dismissed legal arguments by Maxwell’s attorney that she is immune from prosecution based on a 2007 agreement struck between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Maxwell on Monday had offered to spill previously unrevealed insight into Epstein’s activities, including whether he maintained the disputed “client list” at the center of a firestorm roiling the Trump administration.

In their minds, Maxwell is the victim of gross “government misconduct” resulting in her 20-year conviction on human trafficking charges, her family states in an open letter.

“Our sister Ghislaine did not receive a fair trial,” her kin wrote in a statement following Tuesday’s hearing in a federal appeals court. They claimed that prosecutors were motivated to charge Ghislaine based on public and political pressure during Epstein’s short-lived 2019 trial.

Maxwell, they went on, is prepared to “file a writ of habeas corpus,” which would “allow her to challenge her imprisonment.”

This challenge would be “on the basis of new evidence such as government misconduct that would have likely changed the trial’s outcome,” they add.

Epstein in 2007 signed a Non Prosecution Agreement as part of a sweetheart deal where he served minimum prison time after being convicted of soliciting underage girls for prostitution. Maxwell’s family agrees with her contention that the deal should apply to her, given that she was at Epstein’s side during that time and groomed hundreds of young girls for his sick sexual satisfactions.

Prosecutors at the time agreed not to bring charges against co-conspirators who “paid fines, paid ‘victims’ millions of dollars and served 13 months in prison,” Maxwell’s family told the Daily Mail.

David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s attorney, said in an accompanying statement, “I’d be surprised if President Trump knew his lawyers were asking the Supreme Court to let the government break a deal. He’s the ultimate dealmaker-and I’m sure he’d agree that when the United States gives its word, it should keep it.”

He added: “With all the talk about who’s being prosecuted and who isn’t, it’s especially unfair that Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison based on a promise the US government made and broke.”

The family wrote that they “profoundly concur” with Markus’s comments.

According to the outlet, the 2007 deal did not directly name Maxwell, but instead stated “Epstein successfully fulfills all of the terms and conditions of this agreement, the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to” four of Epstein’s assistants.

Federal prosecutors rejected that argument, saying the deal only applied to charges brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida.

Maxwell was charged in New York, where prosecutors found that interpretations of such a deal are treated very differently than in other parts of the country.

“Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers are asking the Court to resolve this difference between the Districts,” one of Sauer’s filings states.

The family asked for the court to vacate Maxwell’s sentence, saying her original judge applied “an incorrect guideline range and offense level.”

Maxwell’s plea for freedom comes as the Trump administration is grappling with the fallout over refusing to release additional details of the government’s investigation into Epstein. MAGA figures, including Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, and Charlie Kirk, are warning President Donald Trump about the repercussions his administration will face if he doesn’t make good on releasing an exhaustive compilation of facts about how Epstein died — and who surrounded him at the height of his twisted power.