Leaked email suggests Ghislaine Maxwell plotting to sacrifice big name for freedom: report

Famed reporter Julie K. Brown obtained a leaked email penned by Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while in prison last year – an email, Brown theorized, that might hold a “clue” to the convicted sex trafficker’s plan to secure either a pardon or other reprieve from her 20-year sentence.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee recently signaled an openness to offering Maxwell – who was found guilty of five federal charges related to sex trafficking minors – clemency in exchange for testifying under oath. In a report published on her Substack recently, Brown predicted Maxwell will ultimately receive a pardon or other relief, citing an email she sent her sister last October.

“I found this note she wrote to her sister from prison back in October that hints at what Maxwell has,” Brown, whose reporting helped lead to Epstein’s arrest in 2019, wrote in her report.

In the email, Maxwell requests of her sister, Isabel Maxwell, that she “send Leon’s emails etc stuff to Leah,” noting that “one day the spigot will dry up.”

Brown concludes that Maxwell was referencing former Apollo CEO Leon Black, long a client of Epstein who’s been accused of sexual abuse by several women, but has denied any wrongdoing. Black has also been close friends with President Donald Trump “for decades.” As for “Leah,” Brown concludes Maxwell to be referencing Leah Saffian, a “friend and lawyer” of Maxwell’s who helped draft her recent appeal for clemency.

“Does this mean Maxwell knows that when the spigot of evidence Congress has dried up, they will look to her for help?” Brown wrote.

Brown also pointed to the recent reporting on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested and stripped of his royal title after new details emerged about his past relationship with Epstein. The journalist who “broke the story” on Mountbatten-Windsor, Brown noted, was Daphne Barak, an Israeli-American journalist and “trusted friend of Maxwell and her family for about 20 years.”

“In fact, [Barak] is one of the only people to have interviewed Maxwell in prison, with one of Maxwell’s brothers acting as a conduit,” Brown wrote.

“Why would Maxwell leak emails about Andrew? To send a message that this is what is at stake if she remains in prison. Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, told Politico last week that ‘There’s a good chance and for good reason that she would get a pardon.’ And Trump has not ruled it out.”