Prince Andrew 'should be fearful' as Ghislaine Maxwell agrees chat with Trump officials
Prince Andrew has been told he should be 'extremely fearful' as Ghislaine Maxwell has agreed to meet with Donald Trump's top legal officials.
The disgraced British socialite has agreed to speak with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche about Jeffrey Epstein in a meet-up behind bars. Sources say it is a desperate bid by the US president to recover control of the spiralling scandal.
The move has led famed US attorney Alan Dershowitz to believe the meeting could lead to Maxwell's release.
As reported in the Mirror, he said: 'She's going to make a deal. That's the way things are done. They make deals with the mafia, so I'm certain they are going to try to make a deal with her.'
A separate legal expert explained that a meeting with Blanche also presents an opportunity for Maxwell to potentially lessen her sentence. It would be in exchange for spilling secrets about her and Epstein's life - which she has closely guarded since his death.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year term for sex trafficking underage girls for her late husband. She is the only person to be convicted in the case.
The meeting, due to take place within days at Maxwell's Florida prison, marks a dramatic turning point in the case. For years, Maxwell, who is currently being held in a Florida prison, has refused to cooperate with authorities.
But with 12 years left of her sentence behind bars, she is prepared to talk. Her knowledge will send shockwaves through the elite inner circle that once surrounded Epstein before his jail cell suicide in 2019.
Many believe Maxwell, 63, could offer explosive details in exchange for a commuted sentence. One victim believes Prince Andrew is 'close to the top of the list' of those whom Maxwell has the most information on.
She said: 'She had a front-row seat to the Duke's relationship with Jeffrey. If Ghislaine thinks her old pal Donald Trump might give her a pardon or commute her sentence, she could now very well talk. For someone who refused to the FBI when asked, Prince Andrew should be extremely fearful of that. Given her knowledge of his friendship with Jeffrey, he must be close to the top of the list of men who should now be anxious.'
The victim made clear she did not believe there would be any more allegations made against Andrew, saying all claims against him 'had already been heard.'
However, she added: 'It is not about allegations; I think they have been exhausted. It's about the details of the friendship. Questions like how they met, how often they met, and where they met? Ghislaine was there for all of them. She has such information.
'And of course, it's not just Andrew she has knowledge of, it's the countless others, too. She knows everyone in Epstein's circle. If she were to start talking, Trump would think nothing of throwing some of them under the bus in order to save himself.'
Andrew infamously refused to speak to the FBI. In 2020, when he was the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman made the extremely rare decision to blast the Duke publicly.
Berman claimed that despite public statements to the contrary, the royal had "repeatedly declined" requests to schedule an interview. Andrew's legal team denied his claims, insisting that the Duke offered to assist authorities on at least three occasions.
The DoJ's meeting with Maxwell comes just weeks after the Department of Justice announced it would not release any Epstein files - a move that has sparked outrage among survivors.
In 2019, Virginia Giuffre, a former 'teen sex slave' of Epstein's, accused the royal of sexually abusing her on three occasions when she was 17 - claims he vehemently denied. Facing a civil lawsuit in New York, Andrew opted to settle out of court in early 2022, reportedly paying Giuffre £12 million.
He issued no apology and continued to protest his innocence, insisting he had no memory of ever meeting her despite the now-infamous photo of them together with Maxwell grinning in the background.
Legal experts warn that Maxwell should she provide prosecutors with credible evidence, even those who once believed themselves untouchable, including royalty, could find themselves under fresh scrutiny.
Another victim said: 'She has nothing left to lose, and everything to gain. If she speaks, it could blow the lid off a cover-up that's lasted for decades.'
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