'KEEP MAXWELL IN PRISON'

FAMILY OF FORMER EPSTEIN VICTIM VIRGINIA GIUFFRE URGES NO CLEMENCY FOR HIS CO-ACCUSED

- STORY: AGENCIES

The family of deceased Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre is urging President Donald Trump not to grant clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein abuse underage girls.

Giuffre’s family also said it was “shocking” to hear Mr Trump say last week that Epstein had poached Giuffre from Trump’s Mara-Lago club, where she worked at the spa in 2000.

The family said Mr Trump's comment raised questions about whether Mr Trump was aware of Epstein’s sexual abuse at the time.

Mr Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing. Giuffre has said she was a victim of Epstein’s sex trafficking from 2000 to 2002, starting when she was 16. She died by suicide in April at age 41.

The family’s remarks come as Mr Trump has faced pressure to make public documents from the federal investigations into Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and his longtime girlfriend Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021.

Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, this month met Maxwell to see if she had any information about others who had committed crimes. Maxwell's lawyer David Markus has called on Mr Trump to grant her relief, but Mr Trump has said he has not thought about whether to pardon her.