Overview

• The department published transcripts and audio from two recent interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell conducted in late July.
• Senior Justice Department official Todd Blanche, who led the interviews, said every word was included except victims’ names and that nothing was removed or hidden.
• Maxwell recalled possibly first meeting Donald Trump in 1990 through her father, media owner Robert Maxwell.
• The release was presented as a transparency move after earlier refusals to disclose a larger cache of Epstein-related records drew criticism.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump his name appears in some case files, a claim he rejected before suing the paper’s parent company for $10 billion alleging defamation.