Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell enjoys numerous special privileges in prison. Other inmates of the convicted human trafficker are denied access.
November 16, 2025, 05:45November 16, 2025, 1:37 p.m
Julian Seiferth / t-online
Ghislaine Maxwell sounds extremely happy for a convicted sex offender currently serving a prison sentence: “I feel like Alice in Wonderland. “I am much happier here and, more importantly, safer,” she wrote in a recent email to relatives.
In fact, Maxwell has reason to be happy: A few weeks ago, the accomplice of sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas – after she told the deputy attorney general that she had never met Donald Trump in connection with Epstein and her crimes.
Ghislaine Maxwell in 2013.Image: keystone
But Maxwell’s new privileges probably go further than a more comfortable prison bed. Whistleblower reveals: The convicted human trafficker is said to receive, among other things, room service like in a hotel in the institution in Bryan, Texas. An anonymous prison guard is quoted as saying she was “tired of playing Maxwell’s bitch.”
Toilet paper at your discretion
The preferential treatment is evident even in banalities such as toilet paper: As standard, inmates in the women’s prison receive two rolls per week. If you need more, you can purchase them for $2.25 per roll. But Maxwell, that’s what the US broadcaster writes CNN“she doesn’t have to worry about that because she gets as much toilet paper as she needs. She just has to ask.”
Prison consultant and ex-inmate Sam Mangel tells CNN: “You don’t understand how valuable toilet paper is in prison. The prisoners hoard it, hiding it from the guards. You can survive two days without shampoo, but not without toilet paper.”
Fellow prisoners are moved and are not allowed to receive visitors
In addition to her never-ending supply of toilet paper, Maxwell also enjoys private dinners in Bryan that are brought to her cell. When Maxwell explained that she felt like inmates were eating outside her cell in the common room, several tables and chairs were permanently moved to a location where the cell was no longer visible. Women with whom Maxwell shared a cell were moved to other cells at least once at their request.
Unlike her fellow inmates, Maxwell is allowed to use the prison’s chapel alone for private prayers and conversations, to communicate with the outside world through emails without the institution being monitored, and to exercise in the prison’s courtyard even after official opening hours.
Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of human traffickingImage: www.imago-images.de
Maxwell is allowed to receive guests who are offered snacks by the prison authorities. According to other inmates, they are not allowed to have visitors while Maxwell is being visited – supposedly for security reasons.
Maxwell is also said to have expressed a desire for a dog at least once. The prison then organized a puppy, which is in training to become a police dog, to play with the convicted sex offender. In the USA there is an expression for this: “puppy time”.
Maxwell critics are being moved to other prisons
But it’s not just that Maxwell is being favored – other inmates who perceive Maxwell or the authorities as a problem are apparently being punished. An example: ex-professor Julie Howell. Howell was serving a one-year prison sentence in Bryan for stealing from her former employer. Shortly after Maxwell was transferred to Bryan, Howell’s husband passed along a press inquiry about Maxwell to her.
Howell, as her lawyer describes it to CNN, checked the rules for press inquiries and gave her husband the following answer for the journalists: “This institution is intended for non-violent criminals. Human trafficking is a violent crime. As the mother of a girl who was herself a victim of human trafficking, it disgusts me that she is here.”
According to her lawyer, the ex-professor was summoned to the prison authorities a few days later, reprimanded for her behavior – and immediately transferred to another prison. A few days later, other women from Bryan who had publicly or internally criticized Maxwell arrived there.
Trump administration expresses concern for Maxwell’s safety
A spokesman for the Trump administration told CNN that the transfers were made for security reasons: The statements posed a security risk to Ghislaine Maxwell. There are credible death threats against the convicted human trafficker and sex offender.
“Any preferential treatment for them is not only an insult, but also dangerous for the survivors.”
The women who survived Maxwell and Epstein’s crimes and representatives of other victims say they are horrified by the reports. Maxwell shows “no remorse for her crimes,” says Annie Farmer, who was sexually abused by Maxwell and Epstein as a 16-year-old girl. “Any preferential treatment for them is not only an insult, but also dangerous for the survivors. I’m disgusted.”
Maxwell wants to ask US President Trump to revoke her sentence. A whole range of documents is required for the application. When Maxwell complained about the expense, prison guards are said to have helped her fill out the paperwork. Trump, who is himself under pressure due to the publication of new emails from Jeffrey Epstein, has not ruled out overturning Maxwell’s sentence in recent weeks, saying: “I have every right to do that.”