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Monday, May 04, 2026

The reporter who helped put Jeffrey Epstein behind bars has revealed why she thinks that Ghislaine Maxwell will eventually get a pardon.

Julie K. Brown, the award-winning Miami Herald reporter who unraveled the massive Epstein story, thinks Maxwell will be "successful" in securing some form of reprieve"whether a commutation or a pardon"for her close involvement in her onetime boyfriend's years-long scheme to sexually exploit and abuse young girls.

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"Here is why I believe this. She is the woman who knows too much," Brown wrote on her Substack on Thursday.

"And there are indications she has the goods to spill details about Epstein's crimes and those who helped him or participated in them. This means there [are] some nervous and powerful men out there."

In the email dated Oct. 19, 2025, Maxwell references Leon Black, a Wall Street billionaire and longtime Epstein client who has been accused of sexual abuse by multiple women. He has denied any wrongdoing.

"Send Leon's emails etc stuff to Leah," Maxwell wrote, referring to her friend and lawyer Leah Saffian. "Of course it is in the papers from Congress too. One day the spigot will dry up."

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"I am shocked that some of my former Republican colleagues on the Oversight Committee are supporting pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell," former Georgia firebrand Marjorie Taylor-Greene said.

"The Epstein survivors are adamantly against her receiving a pardon as she was one of their main abusers next to Jeffrey Epstein and they say she is a serial liar."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-04 12:01 PM | Reply

Her testimony would be useless. Any defense attorney would point to the DoJ's own characterization of Maxwell that she is a "pervasive" and "brazen" liar should she ever offer testimony in any future cases.
Congressional GOP members know this. Any of them suggesting trading her release for cooperation is only doing so in order to protect those involved with Epstein/Maxwell/Trump's trafficking ring.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-05-04 12:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Epstein/Maxwell/Trump's trafficking ring.

#2 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

This reality solves any "mysteries" in this story.

What do very rich people do with their money?

Buy and rape little girls.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-04 12:55 PM | Reply

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