Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and confidant, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas, prison officials said Friday.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed men and women.
The camp in Bryan, Texas, houses only women. A majority of its inmates are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.
The move comes a week after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell and her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, for nine hours over two days.
Blanche has made no public statements about what Maxwell said or about next steps in the current Justice Department investigation into Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019.
But the meetings came amid public furor over a July 6 announcement from the DOJ and the FBI that a review of the Epstein case had found, contrary to conspiracy theories, “no incriminating ‘client list'” and “no credible evidence” that Epstein had been blackmailing famous men, and that he did in fact kill himself.
That furor escalated when Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino did not report to work earlier this month as he considered resigning over the department’s handling of the Epstein files.
The issue persisted leading up to Blanche’s meeting with Maxwell and Markus, and still irks President Donald Trump, a former friend of both Epstein and Maxwell.
Other famous prisoners at Texas camp
Markus confirmed to NBC News that Maxwell had been moved to the facility in Texas, but declined to comment further.
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is housed there after she was convicted of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. So is “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for running a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly people.
“We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” the bureau said in a statement.
The Bureau of Prisons did not specify why she was transferred.
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