Washington, 23 August 2025 (dpa/MIA) – The US Justice Department has published protocols and notes on hearings conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former partner of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents, comprising several hundred pages compiled under the supervision of Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, were released on Friday.

They do not to contain a list of Epstein's clients – a key point in conspiracy theories centring on the alleged abuse of underage girls by his prominent friends.

US prosecutors interviewed Maxwell again at the end of July, announcing that the Justice Department would release further information at an unspecified time.

A New York court handed Maxwell a 20-year sentence in 2022 for her role in setting up a network for the sexual abuse of girls at Epstein's behest. He committed suicide in prison in 2019, and she remains behind bars.

According to the new documents, Maxwell said that former president Bill Clinton never visited Little St James, Epstein's Caribbean island.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Clinton visited the island on several occasions.

Epstein has been accused of abusing underage girls for years and of pimping girls for a string of prominent clients, reported to be on a list, whose existence Maxwell has denied.

His suicide has prompted wild speculation on account of his contact with celebrities, billionaires and top-level politicians. Trump and Epstein were close associates for a time.

In the interview, Maxwell said that she had never witnessed Trump acting "in any inappropriate setting in any way." She described him as "a gentleman in all respects."

During his election campaign, Trump pledged to open up the Epstein files completely, and his failure to do so has led to increased pressure on him from his own supporters.

The US administration appears to be attempting to ease that pressure through the publication of the Maxwell interview.

US federal courts have declined to release sealed material from grand jury hearings related to the Epstein case.

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