Convicted child predator and chief Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell — who was convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein's chief accomplice — told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche she doesn't believe the government's official explanation for Epstein's death.

On Friday, audio of Maxwell's testimony to Blanche (the second-most senior official at the Department of Justice) was released to the House Oversight Committee in response to a subpoena. And in one particularly noteworthy exchange, Maxwell can be heard telling Blanche that she believed Epstein may have been killed in a murder-for-hire plot.

"So do you think he did not die by suicide, given all the things we just talked about?" Blanche is heard asking Maxwell.

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

"And do you believe that, do you have any speculation or view of who killed him?" Blanche asked.

"No, I don't." She said.

"And I ask that because if you do not believe there's any truth to the allegations of blackmail, or that he had kind of a list, or that he had reasons to have people hate him,, why would somebody kill him in prison?" Blanche persisted.

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"Well, in prison, where I am, they will kill you, or they will pay, somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you," Maxwell said.

In 2019, the official explanation was that Epstein died by suicide in his prison cell while awaiting trial, with the medical examiner ruling that the convicted child trafficker had hanged himself. However, Epstein's brother, Mark, has said that a pathologist he asked to be present during Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy said the marks on Epstein's body looked more consistent with homicide than suicide.

Maxwell's July testimony to Blanche took place at the Gainesville, Florida prison where she had been incarcerated after being sentenced to 20 years behind bars for her role procuring victims for Epstein. After her two days of testimony — in which she reportedly gave up information on roughly 100 people — she was transferred to a minimum security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. Sex offenders like Maxwell are typically not allowed to stay at facilities like Bryan given the nature of their offense without a waiver from the DOJ.

Listen to the audio below, or by clicking this link.

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