Blanche traveled down to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with Maxwell at a federal courthouse to conduct the interviews. The Justice Department faced backlash for backtracking over the release of the files, as well as claiming there was no Epstein client list and that there would not be any further charges.

The Department of Justice says it wants to release transcripts of grand jury testimony from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trials. But Maxwell and her legal team, who have been meeting with the Trump administration and are angling for a pardon,