August 2, 2025 | 12:41 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case continues to draw public attention.
On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced, as reported by Arab News, that Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan, Texas. However, they did not elaborate on the situation. Her lawyer, David Oscar Markus, also confirmed the transfer but refused to discuss the reasons behind it.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for enticing teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. The woman, who is the daughter of Israeli spy Robert Maxwell, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
She was previously held in a low-security jail in Tallahassee, Florida, before being transferred to the prison camp in Texas, where other inmates include Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
Federal prison camps with minimum security accommodate inmates deemed by the Bureau of Prisons as the lowest security risk. Some do not even have fences. The prison camps were originally designed with low security to facilitate operations and allow inmates on duty to perform tasks within the prison, such as landscaping and maintenance, avoiding repeated entry and exit checks from the main prison facilities.
Prosecutors said Epstein's sexual crimes would not have been possible without Ghislaine Maxwell. However, her lawyers insist that she has been wrongly charged and did not receive a fair trial, and have proposed a pardon from President Donald Trump.
They have also requested that the U.S. Supreme Court handle her case.
Ghislaine Maxwell's case has garnered increasing public attention since protests arose last month over the U.S. Justice Department's statement that they would not release any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation. The decision has angered online detectives, conspiracy theorists, and Trump supporters who hoped to see evidence of government cover-ups.
Since then, Trump administration officials have sought to portray themselves as promoting transparency in this case, including by asking the court to unseal the grand jury transcript.
Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell was interviewed at a Florida courthouse for two days last week by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and the House Oversight Committee also expressed interest in speaking with Maxwell. Her lawyers said this week that they are willing to be interviewed, but only if the panel ensures immunity from legal prosecution.
In a letter sent to Maxwell's lawyers on Friday, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer wrote that the committee is willing to postpone the deposition until after Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The appeal is expected to be concluded by the end of September.
Comer wrote that even though Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony is "vital" to the Republican-led investigation into Epstein, the committee will not grant immunity or any questions before her testimony, as requested by her team.
As reported by NDTV, Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell, rose to become a British media tycoon whose business empire rivaled that of Rupert Murdoch. He founded Pergamon Press, an academic publishing company that provided history and science textbooks to schools across the United States. This publishing was often criticized for promoting a pro-Israel narrative in line with Maxwell's staunch Zionism.
For his daughter Ghislaine, whose later life became entangled with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, her father opened the gates of upper-class society and perhaps, unwittingly, the path to destruction.
Robert associated with kings, queens, presidents, and even the Pope. And behind the scenes, he was alleged to have assisted Mossad, one of the world's most secretive intelligence agencies, spying on half the world.
Ghislaine Maxwell's ties to the world's elite made it easier for Epstein to peddle teenage girls to global figures.
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