Maxwell DOJ Proffer Interview Transcript Day 1 (Jul 24, 2025, Redacted)

Page 1 United States Department of Justice INTERVIEW OF: GHISLAINE MAXWELL DATE: July 24, 2025 APPEARANCES: For the United States: Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General Diego Pestana, Acting Associate Deputy Attorney General Spencer Horn, FBI Special Agent Mark Beard, Deputy U.S. Marshal For Ghislaine Maxwell: David Markus Leah Saffian Melissa Madrigal 2 (Pages 2 to 5) 2 (Pages 2 to 5) Page 2 1 I N T E R V I E W 2 *** 3 TODD BLANCHE: I am going to ask everybody 4 to put their name on the record here. 5 SPENCER HORN: Good morning. My name is 6 Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Spencer Horn of 7 FBI, New York. 8 Today we're doing a proffer of 9 Ms. Maxwell. The date is July 24th and the time is 10 10:12 a.m. This interview is being recorded. 11 TODD BLANCHE: And my name is Todd 12 Blanche. I'm the Deputy Attorney General. And 13 before we start formally asking questions of 14 Ms. Maxwell, I'm going to put on the record everybody 15 that's in this room, in addition to me, starting with 16 you, Diego. 17 DIEGO PESTANA: Diego Pestana, Associate 18 Deputy Attorney General. 19 TODD BLANCHE: And then you heard from 20 Special Agent in Charge Horn. Mark Beard from the 21 United States Marshal Service is here as well. 22 And then David. 23 DAVID MARKUS: Yes. This is David Oscar 24 Markus, and I'm counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell. 25 LEAH SAFFIAN: My name is Leah Saffian and Page 3 1 I'm counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell. 2 MELISSA MADRIGAL: My name is 3 Melissa Madrigal and I'm counsel for Ghislaine 4 Maxwell. 5 TODD BLANCHE: Go ahead. 6 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: And I'm -- I'm 7 Ghislaine Maxwell. 8 TODD BLANCHE: Good morning, Ms. Maxwell. 9 How are you? 10 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Good morning, 11 Mr. Blanche. 12 TODD BLANCHE: Good. Okay. So before we 13 started re