The brother of Ghislaine Maxwell has insisted Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is a ‘consummate liar’ who ‘destroyed countless lives’ – including that of Prince Andrew.
In an interview this morning Mr Maxwell said he ‘sheds no tear’ for Ms Giuffre, who killed herself in April at the age of 41.
Epstein died in a New York prison while awaiting sex crime charges in 2019 but Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is behind bars – serving 20 years on child sex trafficking charges.
Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls, with victims claiming they were passed around as sex toys to his wealthy friends and billionaire business associates who regularly visited his homes including his private island, Little Saint James.
Maxwell was convicted in 2022 over her role in the scheme to sexually exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Epstein over the course of a decade.
But speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning Ghislaine’s brother Ian Maxwell – a businessman and son of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell – insisted Virginia Giuffre was a ‘consummate liar from start to finish’.
He explained: ‘This is most conspicuously revealed when she had alleged that she had slept with Professor Alan Dershowitz, maintained it for many years, and then had to withdraw and desist.
‘That’s the first major point, and perhaps the second crucial point is that the law enforcement elected not to call Virginia Duffet to the trial of my sister, the most voluble, perhaps best known of her accusers.
‘And why was that? Because she would have been eviscerated by the defence. So that’s my take on her.’
In an interview this morning Mr Maxwell (pictured) said he ‘sheds no tear’ for Ms Giuffre who killed herself in April at the age of 41 (file image)
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on his private jet. The photo was released during the trial of Maxwell as she faces six federal charges
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts, aged 17, and Ghislaine Maxwell at Ghislaine Maxwell’s townhouse in London, Britain on March 13, 2001
Mr Maxwell had been responding to comments made last night by the family of the late Ms Giuffre who said they wanted ‘those monsters to be exposed for who they are and what they’ve done,’ referring to both Epstein and his sister.
He said: ‘Well, I think I know who the monster is here. It certainly isn’t my sister.’
Supporters of Ms Giuffre have railed against a possible pardon for the convicted heiress Maxwell and demanded the release of FBI files related to Epstein’s crimes.
But Mr Maxwell said: ‘My sister’s been banged up for five years. It is very, very largely due to the actions, lies of this woman who has destroyed my sister’s life and other lives with her lives, including that of Prince Andrew and other young women whom she recruited for Epstein. I shed no tear for Virginia Giuffre.’
The Trump administration stunned even members of its base after denying reports Epstein kept a list of the rich and powerful people for whom he trafficked young girls.
Mr Maxwell agreed, when questioned by Nick Ferrari, that the so-called files should be released adding ‘transparency is generally the right way to go and I believe transparency is the friend of my sister’.
The brother was then asked about the condition of his sister in prison, having claimed a couple of weeks ago she is at ‘great risk’ and ‘fearing for her life’.
He said: ‘She’s now completed five years of prison, two years of that pre-trial in absolutely torturous circumstances.
‘MDC Brooklyn, one of the toughest jails in, in the world, really, not just in the U.S. she’s now at Tallahassee, which is a pretty violent place, awash with drugs, desperately overcrowded and, you know, it’s a, it’s a dangerous place.
Maxwell, 63, is the only person behind bars – serving 20 years on child sex trafficking charges – despite the fact Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls.
‘For sure she remains at great, if not greater, risk and has expressed her real concerns about this to me,’ Ian Maxwell previously said of his sister (pictured in 1991)
Ian Maxwell (pictured right) communicates regularly with her sister in jail on the phone and has said he fears for her safety
‘Despite the rumours, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story’, a source previously said
‘Prisons are dangerous places. So, I am fearful for my sister, but her spirit is strong, her belief in her innocence. My belief in that too is resolute.’
Asked if he was aware of whether President Trump had ever visited Epstein island, Mr Maxwell said: ‘I don’t know. I do not know that he ever did.’
He confirmed he had met Epstein previously, making him out as a ‘highly intelligent man’ with a ‘dark charisma about him’ – but ‘not the sort of person I would have wanted to go for a drink with, if you see what I mean’.
In the 1990s, rr Maxwell was acquitted of charges of criminal financial malpractice relating to the business practices of his father, Robert.
Since 2021, he has expressed concern about the welfare of his sister with regard to her convictions in relation to the Epstein case.
Many people have accused the Trump administration of engaging in a cover-up of Epstein’s crimes – and members of Congress have even suggested having Maxwell testify publicly about what he had done.
But Ms Giuffre’s family argues Maxwell should not be let out of her sentence or given any leniency in order to testify.
Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre would have wanted all of the files related to the case against the financier released, her family asserted on Thursday
They were seen visibly breaking down in tears as they discussed what she would have thought about the recent developments in the case with CNN’s Caitlan Collins
Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting charges related to sex crimes
‘We were very shocked and very surprised that they’re giving her a platform,’ Roberts told Collins on The Source Thursday night, saying Maxwell ‘deserves to rot in prison because of what she did to my sister and so many other women.’
She then described the heiress as a ‘puppet master’ and a ‘monster of a nightmare’ who ‘viciously participated’ in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme by recruiting young women.
‘It’s really important that we create a culture… for victims and survivors to come forward, to protect them, to trust them and believe them,’ she explained in remarks to NBC News.
‘Survivors deserve the space to be heard always, and that if you were to let [Maxwell] free, it would be silencing them all over again – and that is not a culture that any of us want.’
Lanette Wilson, Giuffre’s other sister-in-law, also argued Maxwell was not ‘a minor player’ and instead helped organise Epstein’s sex trafficking operations.
A senior administration official has since told the Daily Mail that ‘no leniency is being given or discussed’.
‘The president himself has said that clemency for Maxwell is not something he is even thinking about at this time,’ the official said, despite Trump previously saying he would be ‘allowed to’ pardon her.
The president had once been good friends with Epstein and Maxwell, who were photographed partying at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, including with Trump’s then-girlfriend Melania.
Donald Trump with then-girlfriend and future wife Melania Knauss, financier Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club in February 2000
But he claimed on Tuesday that their friendship ended when he realized Epstein was taking his young employees like Giuffre – who was just 16 years old and working as a locker room attendant at the spa at his Florida estate at the time.
‘Everyone knows the people that were taken,’ Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One. ‘People were taken out of the spa hired by him.’
‘I didn’t know that. And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, “Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don’t want you taking people,” the president continued.
‘And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, “Out of here.”‘
Trump then officially banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club in 2004.
