Ghislaine Maxwell reveals toe-curling excuse Jeffrey Epstein gave for refusing her sex: Live updates

In newly released DOJ transcripts, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell claimed the pair rarely had sex because of ‘medical conditions’ affecting them both.

Maxwell told investigator Todd Blanche that Epstein suffered from a heart condition ‘which meant that he didn’t have intercourse a lot.’

She added that it ‘suited [her] fine,’ saying she also had a medical issue that ‘precludes me having a lot of intercourse.’

In a striking statement from newly released DOJ interview transcripts, Ghislaine Maxwell likened the frenzy surrounding her case to a Salem witch trial.

‘Basically this is like a Salem witch trial,’ Maxwell said. “People have gone and lost their minds for this thing. I understand that.’

She went on to describe the challenge of dealing with public outrage over a lifestyle most people can’t comprehend.

‘But the issue is, how do you satisfy a mob who can’t understand the lifestyle because it’s like P. Diddy in Redux on TV with Clintons and Trump,’ Maxwell added.

During the interview, Ghislaine Maxwell was asked about several high-profile individuals and both her and Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to them.

At one point, she was asked about disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in shame in 2021 amid a string of sexual harassment allegations.

Maxwell confirmed she knew Cuomo but ‘only because he was married to Kerry [Kennedy].

She also said she’d met his brother, but couldn’t remember his name.

‘And I think I knew his brother as well. What’s -he has a brother, right? He’s on TV. What’s his name?’ she asked.

When told his name is Chris Cuomo, the former TV news anchor, Maxwell confirmed she had also met him but ‘just socially’.

‘I’m not close friends or anything, but because we — I was friends with Kerry and I met him a few times and I certainly met his brother as well a few times,’ she said.

When asked if Epstein knew Andrew or Chris Cuomo or Kerry Kennedy, she said: ‘I don’t think so.’

She also said she did not recall any of the three flying on Epstein’s plane or visiting him in Palm Beach or on his island.

Maxwell gave a cryptic response when she was asked if she ever had contact with Mossad – Israel’s intelligence agency.

‘Well, not deliberately,’ she replied, which surprised her interviewer Todd Blanche.

Maxwell then repeated her answer.

Blanche didn’t press her to elaborate, instead asking if Epstein ever received money from any intelligence agency, to which she said he hadn’t, to her knowledge.

Ghislaine Maxwell revealed that a weird ‘stain’ was the ‘most memorable’ thing about her first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 1991.

After being set up by a friend, she went to meet him at his office in Manhattan.

‘I think the most memorable thing I can think about that is he was wearing a tie, which he didn’t often do. It had a giant, seemed like a ketchup stain on it. So I was like, wow, okay. And that was how we met,’ she recalled.

She said they had tea in his office.

Maxwell found Epstein ‘very engaging and that was that.’

Ghislaine Maxwell told the DOJ how she met Jeffrey Epstein after going through a ‘bad break-up’ with her long-term boyfriend.

She was visiting New York and her friend offered to set her up with a date.

‘He’s been dating my sister. You’ll love him. He’s looking for a wife,’ she recalled her friend saying.

Maxwell lamented that she was ‘edging towards 30’ at the time.

‘I don’t need to tell you guys. That’s a very important moment or a girl to, like, think about important things,’ she said.

So she was happy to meet with him.

It was around 1991 when she then met Epstein for the first time at his offices on Madison Garden.

In the freshly unsealed interview transcripts, Ghislaine Maxwell pushed back on long-standing claims about her wealth.

‘There’s been a tremendous amount of reporting that I had a trust fund,’ she told investigators. ‘I never had a trust fund at any time.’

The denial cuts against years of speculation that Maxwell lived off family money and private funds while moving in elite circles with Jeffrey Epstein.

In the interview with the DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell said she believes Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself in a Manhattan prison.

Epstein was found dead in his prison cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

An autopsy determined he died by suicide.

When asked about Epstein’s death, Maxwell said: ‘I do not believe he died by suicide, no.’

However she said she did not have any insight or view into who killed him.

‘I ask that because, if you don’t believe that there’s any truth to the allegations of blackmail or that he had kind of a list, or that he had reasons to have people hate him, why would somebody kill him in prison?’ US Deputy AG Todd Blanche asked.

Maxwell responded: ‘In prison, where I am, they will kill you or they will pay -somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary. That’s about the going rate for a hit with a lock today.’

The Justice Department has released the transcripts and audio recordings from its interviews with convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Daily Mail is reviewing the hundreds of pages of records now.