Jail transfer Anger over Maxwell's 'favourable' treatment

Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a low-security prison camp in Texas this summer has prompted anger over alleged favourable treatment, including claims she was provided custom-made meals, access to a puppy and as much toilet paper as she wanted.

- Victoria Bekiempis

Whistleblower disclosures, Democrat representative Jamie Raskin said in a letter to Donald Trump, also revealed that Maxwell was working on a "commutation application" with the president's administration. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking of teenage girls, a scandal that has dogged Trump for years and has drawn more attention during his second term.

The special treatment and the alleged request for a commutation of her sentence has prompted speculation about whether Trump could pardon her. The disgraced socialite's team on Friday denied she was seeking clemency.

Though both Maxwell and Trump have denied the US president was involved in, or knew of, Epstein's wrongdoing, the former British socialite remains at the centre of the scandal. That was heightened last week when amid a trove of released emails there was a message between Epstein and Maxwell that referred to Trump as "the dog that hasn't barked" and said he had spent considerable time with one of the victims.