Former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah has painted a chilling picture of life inside federal prison with Ghislaine Maxwell, claiming the convicted sex trafficker showed “no remorse” for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein while they served time at the same Texas facility.
Shah told PEOPLE she and Maxwell were both incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, but she made a deliberate decision not to befriend the former British socialite. “I had limited interactions with her,” Shah said, adding, “I chose that. I chose to keep my distance.”
It wasn’t the celebrity factor that put Shah off, given she became close with fellow high‑profile inmate and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes during her sentence. “Lizzie and I are good friends,” Shah explained, saying there were “certain things” high‑profile prisoners went through that made them “naturally come together” — a courtesy she did not extend to Maxwell.
What drew the line, Shah says, was Maxwell’s attitude towards the girls and women at the centre of the Epstein case. “I just feel like there should be a level of remorse for the victims,” Shah told the magazine. “And she made it very publicly known — at least to Elizabeth and I — that there’s no remorse there. She outrightly said it.”
Shah recalled one moment that stuck with her: when Epstein’s victims appeared on television giving emotional testimony to Congress.
“When the victims would be on TV, she was just in complete disregard for them,” Shah said.
“And this is when they are pouring their hearts out in front of Congress for those files to be released.” For Shah, “to be so dismissive of that… just didn’t sit with me the right way”.
Despite Shah’s claims about Maxwell’s attitude, she says the 62‑year‑old was not frozen out by the system itself. “Oh no, she was treated very well there. She was afforded things that nobody else was afforded, like private workout sessions, special meals, bottled water,” Shah alleged, adding that she saw this firsthand while working in the prison’s recreation area and being asked to arrange equipment for Maxwell’s late‑night workouts.
Shah also claimed Maxwell appeared to bypass standard rules for legal communications, saying, “There’s a process you have to go through to schedule your legal calls. She would not have to go through the same process”. This preferential treatment has been denied by a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons who said the claims will be “thoroughly investigated”.
Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and later convicted on five federal counts related to recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein, receiving a 20‑year sentence and a projected release date in 2037. She was moved to FPC Bryan in July 2025 after initially being held at a higher‑security facility.
Jen Shah on her own crimes
Shah, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud over a nationwide telemarketing scheme targeting vulnerable people, was sentenced to 78 months in 2023 but released in December 2025 after serving nearly three years. She has since apologised to her victims and says paying back more than $6.6 million in restitution is now central to her life. “I’d like to say that I’m sorry and I’m here and accepting responsibility and have made it my mission as part of my consequences to make sure that people are paid back through the restitution,” she told PEOPLE, adding, “These people deserve to be made whole.”
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