Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother is lashing out — calling Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre a “monster” while insisting his convicted sister is the real victim.
“I know who the monster is here and it’s not my sister, it’s Virginia Giuffre and her falsehoods that have had devastating ramifications for Ghislaine. I didn’t shed a tear when she died,” Ian Maxwell told The Telegraph in an interview published Friday.
Giuffre, who accused the late Epstein and Britain’s former Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, died by suicide at age 41 in April.
Ian Maxwell also claimed his 64-year-old sister is a “scapegoat” for Epstein’s crimes and is “on the right side of history.”
“My sister is the fall guy. Somebody had to pay the price for what Epstein did, and so the government and the media chose her,” he said.
“I genuinely believe that if Epstein were alive, he would be incarcerated and she would be free.”
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, including sex trafficking of minors.
She is serving a 20-year sentence and has sought to overturn her conviction.
Ian Maxwell said her trial “wasn’t fair, and her conviction isn’t safe.
“Ghislaine has done nothing wrong, and the length of her conviction is outrageous,” he told the outlet.
He compared her sentence to that of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“You have a situation where somebody like P Diddy stands in front of the same federal court on the same charge and receives four-and-a-half years for extreme physical battery, and my sister receives 20 years,”
Ghislaine Maxwell is now incarcerated at FPC Bryan, a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.
The facility previously drew scrutiny after leaked emails showed Ghislaine Maxwell praising its cleanliness and saying she was “much happier here and more importantly safe,” while other inmates alleged she received “VIP treatment.”
She was transferred there in July from a higher-security facility.
Ian Maxwell said he learned of his sister’s arrest by the FBI while watching the news, recalling that agents “sent in a helicopter and 20 armed agents, as though she were a menace to society.”
He also argued that “feminists should really support Ghislaine because she is a woman who has been treated abysmally by the system,” and said there is “still a chance that President Trump might respond to her plea for clemency.”
Ian Maxwell said he speaks with his sister by phone and said she has kept her sense of humor.
“You can’t have this kind of experience and not turn it into something positive,” he said. “There’s an amazing book in it for a start.”
He added that if she had anticipated her arrest, “she would have flown to France at the outset because they don’t extradite their citizens.”
Ian Maxwell also pointed to the recently released Epstein files, claiming they contain documents that “entirely support her contention that she did not receive a fair trial.”
“But she has no access to a computer in prison, so she can’t read them,” he said. “Is it any wonder I’m angry?”
He described himself as Ghislaine’s “de facto spokesman” and said the family remains united behind her.
Her brother is a British businessman and the son of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, whose 1991 death at sea sparked one of the UK’s biggest financial scandals after it was revealed he had looted his companies’ pension funds.
“Blood is always thicker than water,” he said. “The fact is she’s my kid sister and there’s no compassion for her, she needs to have someone on her side. That’s where family comes in.”