Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a whistleblower has told House Democrats.
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and also alleges Maxwell is getting preferential treatment in prison.
“I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments,” Maxwell wrote in an e-mail to her attorney, Leaf Saffian, which was reviewed by NBC News. The subject line of the email reads “commutation application.”
In a letter to Trump on Monday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., demanded the administration release information about the commutation application and called on Trump to reject her request.
“You should not grant any form of clemency to this convicted and unrepentant sex offender,” Raskin wrote. “Your Administration should not be providing her with room service, with puppies to play with, with federal law enforcement officials waiting on her every need, or with any special treatment or institutional privilege at all.”
Raskin requested that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche appear for a public congressional hearing to discuss the revelations.
According to the whistleblower, whose identity the committee has not revealed, Maxwell has received what was described as “concierge-style” treatment at the minimum security prison camp that she was transferred to, including customized meals, permission to go to the exercise area after hours, and time to play with a puppy that was being trained by an inmate to become a service dog, among other things.
The whistleblower also claimed that a top official at the prison camp complained he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.”
Maxwell's attorney did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the White House "does not comment on potential clemency requests. As President Trump has stated, pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is not something he has thought about.”
NBC News reported Saturday that Maxwell said in emails to friends and family that she is “happier” at the minimum-security prison in Texas that she was transferred to. She was moved to the women-only facility over the summer after being held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida that housed men and women.
Her transfer came a week after she met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus.
Maxwell’s commutation efforts come amid a spate of pardons and commutations that Trump has issued in recent weeks, including for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others involved in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, former Rep. George Santos and the former Tennesseee House Speaker Glen Casada and his aide.
In early October, the Supreme Court rejected Maxwell’s challenge to her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. When asked at the time whether he would consider pardoning her, Trump said, “I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it.
Pressed again on whether he was considering a pardon for her, Trump responded, “I wouldn’t consider it or not consider, I don’t know anything about it.”
