Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell says she’s “much happier” at the Texas prison camp she was transferred to after meeting with Trump officials, she revealed to friends and family.
“I feel like I have dropped through Alice in Wonderland’s looking glass,” Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and associate, wrote in an email obtained by NBC News. “I am much much happier here and more importantly safe.”
She sent the emails shortly after she was transferred in August from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Bryan Federal Prison Camp. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in a sex-trafficking scheme with Epstein.
In some of the emails, Maxwell touted the prison camp’s cleanliness and orderliness.
“The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” she wrote in one email.
“The kitchen looks clean too — no possums falling from the celling to fry unfortunately on ovens, and become mingled with the food being served,” she wrote in another, comparing it to her previous prison arrangement.
Maxwell also told loved ones that the food is improved at the prison camp compared to the Tallahassee prison.
“The food is legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite - I haven't seen or heard the usual foul language or screaming accompanied by threats leveled at inmates by anyone. I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed out person or naked inmate running around or several of them congregating in a shower!” she wrote.
Maxwell even gave a shoutout to prison camp warden Tanisha Hall, whom she hailed as a “true professional.”
NBC News obtained the emails from the House Judiciary Committee after its top Democrat Jamie Raskin asked Hall in a letter last month about Maxwell’s “VIP treatment,” citing the Wall Street Journal’s report about the 63-year-old’s “unusually favorable treatment” that has sparked resentment from fellow inmates.
“Now, shocking new reports reveal that Ms. Maxwell is not only receiving VIP treatment at FPC Bryan—including private meetings with mysterious visitors, meal delivery to her dormitory, and other special perks—but that you and other prison officials have retaliated against inmates who dared to speak out about her fawning preferential treatment,” the Maryland Congressman wrote.
Maxwell was moved to the prison camp days after meeting with Justice Department officials for two days in July as part of the investigation into the so-called Epstein files. Former prison staffers said such a transfer was “unheard of” and others said it reeked of “special preference.”
“It’s not a very uncommon thing,” President Donald Trump told reporters at the time. He has not ruled out a pardon for the British socialite.
The prison camp is dubbed “club fed” for its relatively relaxed conditions that boasts dormitory-style cells, no barbed wire, and opportunities to take classes outside of work. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah are also housed there.
David Oscar Markus, a lawyer for Maxwell, told NBC News that “there’s nothing journalistic about publishing a prisoner’s private emails, including ones with her lawyers.”
“That’s tabloid behavior, not responsible reporting,” Markus told the outlet. “Anyone still interested in that kind of gossip reveals far more about themselves than about Ghislaine. It’s time to get over the fact that she is in a safer facility. We should want that for everyone.”
Her brother, Ian Maxwell, similarly expressed disapproval of republishing her emails, telling NBC News that the messages were “personal and private by their very nature.”
Maxwell is at the center of the controversy surrounding the Epstein Files, which have plagued the second Trump administration. The public and politicians on both sides of the aisle called for greater transparency around the records after the Justice Department released a memo in July stating that Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 and said no further investigation was warranted.
Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in May that his name appeared in the documents, the Wall Street Journal reported. A mention in the files does not imply wrongdoing, and dozens of other high-profile names were also mentioned. The president has never been formally accused of wrongdoing in connection to Epstein.
In August, the DOJ released the transcripts and audio recordings from Maxwell’s two-day meeting with top Justice Department officials. In the wide-ranging interview, Maxwell said she “absolutely never” saw Trump behaving inappropriately with anyone in Epstein's circle.
“I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects,” she told officials.
Maxwell also alluded to her experience at the Tallahassee prison when telling officials that she didn’t believe Epstein died by suicide.
“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,” she said. “That's about the going rate for a hit with a lock today.”
