Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking of minors against Jeffrey Epstein.
Justice Department announces release of 3 million Epstein file pages
The Justice Department announced it has released 3 million redacted pages of Epstein’s files.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s U.S. citizenship application was posted on Friday, January 30, among the latest set of files released by the Department of Justice regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, a close associate of Mr. Epstein, was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors to a disgraced financier. She is serving a 20-year sentence.
According to the document, Maxwell became a permanent resident of the United States on February 5, 1995 and received citizenship nearly eight years later on November 27, 2002. Born to a French mother and British father, Maxwell holds dual citizenship in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
The 2002 document lists two of Epstein’s companies as employers. One is J. Epstein & Company, an investment banking and finance company that Epstein founded after leaving Bear Stearns, and LSJ, LLC.
Mr. Maxwell’s citizenship application is one of 3 million pages of files related to Mr. Epstein released by the Justice Department at the request of Congress. These files represent about 60% of all the files the government has collected on Epstein. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the latest batch included 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
Maxwell is scheduled to testify before Congress in February about an alleged sex trafficking network run by her late bosses.
Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial, had ties to some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. All three have denied wrongdoing.
In late 2025, Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security facility in Texas after a meeting with the Department of Justice.
