When pressed for her own speculations on who would kill Epstein and why, Maxwell balked. She stated that she doesn’t believe there was any blackmail involved or that there was a hit on Epstein from someone on the outside, though she did concede that “it’s possible.”

The Justice Department on Friday released the long-awaited transcripts of a weeks-old interview it conducted with convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a courthouse interview with the deputy attorney general, Ms. Maxwell, who has been convicted of sex trafficking, maintained that President Trump and other famous figures were not involved.