Ghislaine Maxwell said Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself

In the released transcripts from the Department of Justice's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell said that she did not believe that her former friend, associate and lover died by suicide. The revelation was made during her Tallahassee prison interview with Assistant AG Todd Blanche.

"So you're going to tell us," Blanche asked, "what you believe, but just to—I just want to make sure I understand, your basis for belief is kind of what you've read and seen and your knowledge of Mr. Epstein for the many years you knew them—knew him, right?"

"And actually there's a third component," Maxwell said. She went on to detail "having experienced now, the mismanagement and inefficiencies and total dereliction of duty at the Bureau of Prisons."

"Okay. Fair. Okay. So, you know, I want to—what I do want to be careful about is—you know, asking you to speculate, because anybody can do that. And I don't think that's fair to you or anybody else to ask you to give us your kind of opinion," Blanche said.

"But, do you think that—the third point you say, which is kind of a failure by the BOP [Bureau of Prisons], there's been a lot of—there's an OIG report, there's SDNY investigation about that. Do you—so you think he was—he did not die by suicide, given all the things we just talked about." Blanche asked.

"I do not believe he died by suicide, no," Maxwell said. 

"And do you believe that— do you have any speculation or view of who killed him?"

She did not, she said, but said that "in prison, where I am, they will kill you or they will pay — somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary. That's about the going rate for a hit with a lock today."

There has been much speculation over the years about whether or not Epstein killed himself when he died in prison in 2019. Earlier this year, the FBI stated unequivocally that Epstein had taken his own life.