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The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails

Extra toilet paper is just one of the privileges the former Epstein associate is enjoying in prison.

First published in The Atlantic on November 20, 2025.

by Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic
November 27, 2025 | reading time: 10 Min.

The emails that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sending over the past several months from a minimum-security prison near Houston are stamped Sensitive But Unclassified. Maxwell once cavorted with presidents and royals; now she’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, convicted of recruiting underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. Her trajectory is not a happy one.

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