GHISLAINE Maxwell’s brother is afraid she will be killed in prison “like Jeffrey Epstein”.
Ian Maxwell, 68, is hoping to get his convicted sex trafficker sister out of jail using new evidence.
Ghislaine Maxwell (in black) pictured with her brother Ian (right) and her parents Robert and Elisabeth in 1990[/caption]
Ian Maxwell fears his sister will be killed in prison[/caption]
Ian said he fears for her life behind bars in Tallahassee’s federal prison, and warned she’s no longer safe inside the overcrowded facility.
Worried about her every day, he told the Daily Mail: “There’s such overcrowding in Tallahassee that higher-category prisoners are being placed there and it’s becoming a facility that is more dangerous – we’ve got to get her out of there.
“Normally she spends a lot of time in the prison library helping other prisoners with things like form filling, but she has to go from A to B and isn’t always surrounded by guards.
“It’s a possibility someone might get to her. I don’t want to be dramatic but you can’t discount it. Look what happened to Epstein.”
Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein lure underage girls into a web of abuse stretching back to the 1990s.
During her three-week trial in 2021, jurors heard prosecutors describe Maxwell as “dangerous”.
While her legal appeals have been thrown out by multiple courts, Ian insists the fight is far from over to get the disgraced British socialite out.
The brother revealed her legal team is plotting a last-ditch effort involving new evidence and an explosive habeas corpus filing.
He admitted hopes that the US Supreme Court will hear her case are slim.
“It’s not a done deal,” he said.
“About 10,000 petitions are lodged each year and they only hear 200 to 250 cases.”
But if that fails, the family says they’ll take another legal route.
“If they don’t hear Ghislaine’s case… we will go another route and file a writ of habeas corpus which allows a prisoner to challenge their imprisonment on the basis of new evidence, such as government misconduct.”
The family have long argued Maxwell was made a scapegoat for Epstein’s crimes and treated harshly to satisfy public outrage after the convicted paedophile died in his cell in 2019.
“I fully believe my sister is innocent and that she will be released some day in the future,” Ian said.
The Maxwell family has consistently claimed she was denied a fair trial.
And now they’re reportedly banking on a controversial 2007 agreement Epstein struck with the Department of Justice to shield his co-conspirators from prosecution.
In a recent statement, the family said: “Our sister Ghislaine did not receive a fair trial.
“Her legal team continues to fight her case in the courts and will file its reply in short order to the government’s opposition in the US Supreme Court.
“If necessary, in due course they will also file a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court, SDNY.
“This allows her to challenge her imprisonment based on new evidence, such as government misconduct that would have likely changed the trial’s outcome.”
Judges have already rejected the defence team’s claim that she “should never have been prosecuted” because of the “weird” 2007 plea deal, but the family appears undeterred.
It also comes amid reports that Maxwell is pursuing a pardon from Donald Trump, following the closure of the US probe into Epstein’s death and financial dealings.
A source close to Maxwell exclusively told The Sun on Sunday there’s a “window of momentum” in her favor.
The insider said: “Those close to her believe it’s unfair that she alone is paying for Epstein’s crimes and call into question much of the evidence against her.
“Now her legal team feel as if they have a rare window of momentum so they are set to take up her case with the President.”
Meanwhile, renewed political pressure is mounting over the unresolved mysteries surrounding Epstein’s sick empire.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has claimed a “big” Epstein file “full of actionable information” is gathering dust in the Treasury Department — information that could shine more light on the financier’s global sex trafficking network.
“Somewhere in the Treasury Department… locked away in a cabinet drawer, is a big Epstein file that’s full of actionable information,” Wyden said on the Senate floor.
He has urged federal authorities to investigate nearly $1.1 billion in suspicious wire transfers linked to Epstein, as well as his connections to Russian banks and the trafficking of women from Eastern Europe.
Although the Biden administration has dismissed claims of hidden records as “fantasies” and “political theatre,” calls for transparency around Epstein’s finances and ties to powerful individuals continue to grow.
