Ghislaine Maxwell granted unusual privileges at minimum-security prison
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking accomplice and ex-girlfriend, is receiving “unusually favorable treatment” after arriving at “Club Fed” prison in Texas, according to a new report.
Angry fellow inmates complained about changes to Federal Prison Camp Bryan’s security measures and the special privileges occasionally granted to Maxwell. Wall StreetJournal.
Bryan is a minimum-security facility that houses 622 inmates, including Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and former “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah.
It arrived in the summer after Maxwell, 63, agreed to meet with federal prosecutors and the Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal.
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Ghislaine Maxwell holds her umbrella over her head long enough to reveal her face. Maxwell left for his job at the prison before sunrise, still walking with an umbrella covering his face. During his lunch break, he returned to his cell on September 20, 2025, with some folders and a clear backpack with his headphones hanging out. (Matthew Symons/Mirrorpix/Mega)
The newspaper also reported that Maxwell’s fellow inmates were warned not to discuss her case with the press. Someone who spoke to one of the newspaper’s reporters was later sent to a higher security facility.
Sam Mangel is a federal prison consultant whose clients include Sam Bankman-Fried and Steve Bannon. She told Fox News Digital that she worked with two women incarcerated in Bryan, neither of whom would discuss Maxwell even with her on the phone or via email.
“I was talking to the sister of one of my clients yesterday or the day before and she told me they were treating Maxwell like a guest at a hotel rather than an inmate in a federal prison,” he said Wednesday.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abusing underage girls. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
In one example, he said, prison officials locked down the entire camp so Maxwell could make a secret visit to the chapel with VIP guests.
“They actually shut everything down and locked everyone in their units and brought the visitors into the chapel through the side entrance so no one could see who the visitors were,” Mangel said. “This is very unusual.”
But he added that if Maxwell had visitors in front of other inmates, it could lead to more arguments, especially for inmates whose daughters were the same age as Maxwell’s victims. She said it was unprecedented for someone convicted of sex crimes to be housed in Bryan, which she described as the nation’s top prison for women convicted of white-collar crimes.
Ghislaine Maxwell runs on the track at FCI Tallahassee on Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Tallahassee, Florida. Maxwell is serving a twenty-year prison sentence for sex trafficking in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)
“You’ll walk into a visiting room and you’ll see Maxwell, who doesn’t belong there, making these visits in an ordinary situation or setting, and that’s very upsetting,” he said. “This really upsets the other inmates and their families.”
“Pulses were certainly pulled at the highest possible levels of the Department of Justice to move him from Tallahassee to Bryan,” he said. “Now, I agree that there was a reason to move him away from Tallahassee. When he started cooperating and it became obvious that he was cooperating with Todd Blanche, he became a target.”
Blanche was the assistant attorney general who interviewed Maxwell in August at her former prison, Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, Florida. This facility is a low-security prison more typical of housing a sex offender like Maxwell.
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Sign outside Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, on Monday, August 4, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
A spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The agency instead sent an automated email saying its public affairs office would not comment due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s appeal last week. He is expected to be released in 2037 after a 20-year sentence for procuring girls for Epstein, who died in a federal prison in New York before his own trial in 2019.
Maxwell told Blanche that she had never witnessed President Donald Trump do anything “inappropriate to anyone.” He denied allegations that former President Bill Clinton traveled to Epstein’s infamous island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and said the Clintons were his friends, not Epstein’s.
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File photo of Jeffrey Epstein in New York City, New York, on February 23, 2011. (David McGlynn)
Maxwell told Blanche: “I think Epstein did most, if not all, of the things he’s accused of, and I’m not here to defend him in any way.” “I don’t want to do that, and I don’t think he deserves any protection or a cover-up from me for what he did or didn’t do.”
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According to Mangel, cooperation with authorities is one of two important areas in which prisoners can improve prison conditions. The other is to accept responsibility.
When he met with Blanche, Maxwell claimed his innocence and denied witnessing any non-consensual sexual activity or having sex with minors.
