The move is confirmed by both the federal prison authority and Maxwell's lawyer David Oscar Markus. However, no one has commented on the reason behind the move. The new prison, in Texas instead of Florida, has a lower security classification, the lowest on the scale.
"This smells of cover-up from a long way off. President Trump has sent a clear message: pedophiles deserve special treatment and their victims are unimportant", say the Farmer sisters and Virginia Giuffre's family in a statement.
"No one has asked"
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for involvement in Epstein's human trafficking of young women for sexual purposes, and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
She was recently questioned by the US Department of Justice and has been called to testify before the congressional committee. What she said has not been made public, but her lawyers claim that she is willing to answer the Congress's questions if she is granted immunity from future prosecution, which has been denied by the committee.
President Donald Trump said in an interview with Newsmax on Friday that no one has asked him to pardon Maxwell.
I have pardoned people before, but no one has asked me to do this.
Took her life
Virginia Giuffre took her life earlier this year. She claimed that Maxwell discovered her at Donald Trump's spa at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in 2000, when she was 17, and hired her as Epstein's masseuse – which led to sexual abuse.
Epstein, who took his life in a prison cell in New York in 2019 while awaiting trial, exploited minors sexually hundreds of times over more than a decade and targeted vulnerable girls as young as 14.
