Overview
- Her attorney, David Oscar Markus, told Politico on Friday that there is a “good chance” the president will grant clemency and said he has not asked the White House yet.
- Trump has not committed to a pardon, saying he would “look at” the case, and his press secretary said in February that it was not something he was considering.
- Markus says Maxwell would testify about Jeffrey Epstein’s network only if granted clemency, after she asserted her Fifth Amendment right in a February House hearing.
- Democrats and victims’ families condemned the idea, with Rep. Robert Garcia calling a pardon “disgusting and outrageous.”
- Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after her 2022 sex‑trafficking conviction, and the Supreme Court’s October 2025 rejection of her appeal left a presidential pardon as her remaining path to relief.