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Melania Trump Gives Surprise Address Denying Alleged Ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
She says 25 secret settlements prove a wider circle of possible co-conspirators and could support a pardon, commutation or sentence reduction.
- Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison term, filed a habeas corpus petition claiming 25 "untouchable" men reached secret settlements with victims, using the allegations as leverage for a sentence reduction.
- Convicted in 2021 for facilitating abuse, Maxwell previously exhausted all appeals to overturn her conviction; her December petition now asks to amend her sentence citing allegedly withheld evidence.
- First Lady Melania Trump on April 9 denied any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Maxwell, denouncing reports linking her to them as "false smears" and stating she had no knowledge of abuse.
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in February that President Donald Trump is not considering or thinking about granting Maxwell a pardon, contradicting his October statement that he would "look at" one.
- After Congress forced the Justice Department to release them, massive troves of Epstein files containing over 3 million pages remain a source of significant legal scrutiny and ongoing disclosures.
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First Lady Melania Trump issued a surprise statement Thursday denying she ever had a “relationship” with Jeffrey Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, leaving not only observers confused, but a close adviser to President Donald Trump as well, along with multiple senior administration officials...
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Melania Trump has come to the fore to clarify that the accusations linking her to Jeffrey Epstein are false and that these are deliberate attempts to undermine her...
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