Epstein accomplice drops courtroom bombshell: 25+ secret payoffs with no criminal charges
By Daniel Hampton
Published January 27, 2026 7:15 PM ET
Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, may be serving time in a cushy Texas federal prison, but the convicted child sex trafficker just detonated a political time bomb from behind bars, according to a new Daily Beast report Tuesday.
In a recent habeas petition, Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators" and "25 men" scored "secret settlements" tied to Epstein's abuse — without facing any indictment.
The report said Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are doing everything possible to avoid one glaring question: "Who are these men, and why are they still being protected?"
https://www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-maxwell-2675052422/
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just like Epstein did, if she makes any such threat. Of course there will be a 60 second "gap" in her surveillance videos.
Those damned surveillance cameras are always malfunctioning these days! 
The 29 dudes all called her up to tell her about their secret settlements, because, why?
And what were the nature of these "settlements"? Who offered them? What did they entitle the recipients TO?
If you want my opinion, she probably got this off some shady internet CT site.
This scumbag has lied her ass off ALL ALONG. I'm not inclined to start believing her now, and ESPECIALLY do not trust her motives 
ETA: Let me also add that a main Maxwell "angle" all along has basically been "the agreement for the non-prosecution of people involved with Epstein (from the 2008 case) should protect me too, I'm only in trouble because I'm a women and they're all powerful men". I would bet money that this 25 number is meant to be a count of the number of "men" who supposedly WERE allowed to "skate" because of that same 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
If you think this some kind of "coming clean", or "exposure of the guilty" you, it is almost certainly not. It's much more likely to be another salvo in a legal angle she's been working for many years. Now her lawyers are just adding a count/number because it sounds better. She's also ranted about corrupt jurors, corrupt prosecutors who were in cahoots with the victims lawyers, etc etc etc.
To be clear I'm not saying some men (or even women, such as Virginia Giuffre) didn't "skate" pursuant to that NPA because I really don't know.
But neither does she.
Her books says it's her greatest regret, etc.
So, yeah, if the cops wanted to be assholes, they could have prosecuted her as well. It's not like there's a carveout in the law that says being a paid member of a minor sex trafficking ring is totally A-OK if you're only 17 (and perhaps of note, she didn't leave Epstein's orbit until she was over 18). Legally, she self-admittedly was "part of the ring", we (rightly) choose to deem her innocent because she was groomed by Epstein.
That's not to say that the NPA *is* why she wasn't (again you'll notice I did not claim she wasn't, only that maybe she was), but it's not like it's unthinkable. There's exactly 4 people who were expressly listed in that NPA. And they were all 4 women.
You'll notice that in EVERY quote you're bringing up here, I'm allowing for the possibility that I'm wrong. And like I said, Maxwell has been working that NPA angle all along, and my guess, which I'm clear on ... is that what she's actually claiming is that "25 men" benefitted from the NPA, but not her, pursuant to her long-time claims that her prosecution and trial was corrupted.
You know, by Garland and Biden's DoJ
"Third ... Well yeah, that’s explicitly what she’s alleging. It’s the whole point of the article. There’s nothing to bet on."
Except this rawstory article says no such thing. Go read it. Its headline also says "payments" when no such thing is actually alleged.
"It is widely believed that the Washington Post got the Epstein birthday book page from Maxwell’s lawyers"
Actually, we know it was the Wall Street Journal, and that it came from the Epstein estate
"Fifth, the reason everyone got a NPA is they were involved or at least peripherally involved in intelligence work."
Well, there is also the fact that there's four people explicitly named as being excluded pursuant to that NPA, and those are Epstein's female assistants running his Estates and businesses in various purviews: Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, and Nadia Marcinkova.
Its safe to assume that these four women in some sense benefitted from the NPA, not that any of them were necessarily "guilty", but perhaps the NPA was to grant them immunity hoping they'd tell authorities what they knew about what Epstein was up to, and that hopefully others would similarly come forward, given this NPA? ETA: admittedly, this is a bit backwards if it were their intent, they could've put the squeeze on the women instead and it seems like Acosta et al did not approach it that way. At minimum they were glad-handing that fucker, but I'm not 100 this is not just because he's was a rich, connected asshole with plenty of money for the best lawyers.
However, we the public have never known for a fact that anyone else avoided prosecution vis-a-vis this NPA, only that Maxwell tried, and failed. 15 years too fucking late to have been a part of what the intent of the NPA actually was.
My bet is that Maxwell is blowing smoke, she has no idea if anyone else skated due to the NPA apart from the 4 women who were in it. I guess we'll see, won't we? If I'm wrong, I promise to admit it. I do it ALL THE TIME here and elsewhere
