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The audio captures Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee, Florida, on July 24 and 25, 2025. The sessions run more than six hours. Maxwell tells Blanche there was no client list of Jeffrey Epstein's associates and that she was not aware of any blackmail. The Justice Department released the audio and lightly redacted transcripts on August 22, 2025.

The interviews were intended to determine whether Maxwell had information about anyone who had committed crimes against victims. Blanche said he contacted her lawyers at Attorney General Pam Bondi's direction. The meetings followed backlash from some of President Donald Trump's supporters over a July Justice Department and FBI memo concluding that Epstein had no client list and died by suicide in 2019. Maxwell received limited immunity, meaning her statements could not be used against her unless she lied.

Maxwell was sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in federal prison for helping Epstein recruit, groom and abuse underage girls between 1994 and 2004. Within days of the interviews, she was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.