Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother has stated that the convicted sex offender feels she is at ‘high risk’ following claims by Donald Trump’s FBI and DOJ that the wealthy pedophile committed suicide.

Recently, DailyMail.com exclusively reported that Maxwell, 63, who was Epstein’s long-time companion and aide, is ready to testify before Congress concerning The Epstein Files.

Now, her brother Ian is revealing her sister’s frame of mine in the wake of the botched release of the files. 

Ian Maxwell communicates regularly with her sister in jail on the phone and told The Times she fears for her safety.  

‘Prisons pose considerable dangers, and Ghislaine has informed us of significant staffing shortages along with the admittance of more dangerous, high-risk-category inmates to … Tallahassee,’ said Maxwell.

‘For sure she remains at great, if not greater, risk and has expressed her real concerns about this to me.’ 

He also said his older sister believes that Epstein may have been murdered, contradicting the DOJ and FBI’s belief in the official theory that he committed suicide. 

‘There were certainly a number of convicted murderers on the wing in [Metropolitan Correctional Center] New York where Epstein died,’ Maxwell said. 

‘The contemporaneous investigation of Epstein’s death was cut short, cursory and frankly shoddy, certainly as regards the duty guards’ story the night he died. At least one distinguished, independent forensic pathologist concurred with the Epstein family-appointed pathologist that homicide was more likely than suicide,’ he added.

He added that the pathologist from the New York Medical Examiner’s office never examined the body.  

‘I think despite the DOJ memo concluding that Epstein died by suicide, there must remain serious doubts and the jury remains out about that.’

Ian Maxwell’s take was that President Trump and others would be ‘pleased’ by the suicide verdict. 

‘The principal casualties here are truth and justice and my sister’s freedom,’ he said. 

‘That’s the reality and it should make all right-thinking people seethe with anger. We remain ever hopeful that the truth of the ‘hoax’, as President Trump now refers to it, comes out.’ 

Ian Maxwell also ‘welcomes total discourse’ and the complete public release of the FBI files. 

Maxwell, 63, is the only person behind bars – serving 20 years on child sex trafficking charges – despite the fact that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls.

Additionally, Epstein’s victims alleged they were passed around as sex toys to his wealthy friends and billionaire business associates who regularly visited his homes including his private island, Little Saint James.

A source said: ‘Despite the rumors, Ghislaine was never offered any kind of plea deal. She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story.

‘No-one from the government has ever asked her to share what she knows. She remains the only person to be jailed in connection to Epstein and she would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.’

What that ‘truth’ is remains to be seen. Maxwell was convicted in 2022 over her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Epstein over the course of a decade.

Maxwell argues she should have been protected from prosecution as part of a Non Prosecution Agreement made by Epstein – her former lover and boss – in 2007 when he agreed to plead guilty to two minor charges of prostitution in a ‘sweetheart deal’ which saw him spend little time behind bars.

And now, controversy continues to rage over the Department of Justice’s statement that there is no Epstein ‘client list’ and the release of videos from inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center which the DOJ says proves he committed suicide in 2019 while being held in jail on sex trafficking charges.

Critics have pointed to the fact that there is a crucial minute missing from the jail house video that also does not show the door or, indeed, the inside of Epstein’s jail cell.

The scandal – and alleged ‘cover up’ – has prompted a rebellion amongst President Trump’s loyal MAGA base. Some even believe Attorney General Pam Bondi should be fired after promising to release all files relating to Epstein and his high-profile male friends only to apparently renege on that promise.

On Saturday night, President Trump posted a rebuttal to accusations of a cover-up on social media site Truth Social saying: ‘For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we not giving publicity to files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan and the losers and criminals of the Biden administration?’

The Epstein ‘cover-up’ was also a main topic of conversation among attendees of this weekend’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA , an organization many credit with rallying Trump’s young base before last year’s presidential election.

Sharon Allen, an attendee, told NBC News: ‘It’s not even about Pam Bondi to me. It’s like, look, Trump, we elected you because you were supposed to be different. So you have to prove to us you’re different.’

A source close to Maxwell told Daily Mail that the former girlfriend of Epstein – who continues to protest her innocence – would ‘welcome the chance to sit in front of Congress and tell her story’.

The source said: ‘Congressional hearings have been held into everything from JFK’s assassination to 9/11. The Epstein Files rank up there with those cases. Ghislaine would be willing to speak before Congress and tell her story.’

Maxwell is also fighting to have her appeal heard by the Supreme Court. On July 14, lawyers for the US government will submit their response to her plea for the Supreme Court to take up her case.

President Trump’s former ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk sensationally claimed there is a cover-up because Trump is mentioned in the Epstein Files, something sources close to Maxwell say ‘is a false flag.’

‘President Trump was photographed with Epstein several times and they ran in the same circles but Trump was one of the first to break all contact with Epstein because they fell out over a business deal and Epstein’s treatment of women,’ the informed source said.

‘There are no big shocks about President Trump in the Epstein Files. But there are a lot of powerful men involved and a lot of money and it will come down to following the money.

The Department of Justice has said no-one else is likely to be prosecuted in relation to the Epstein case, including Britain’s Prince Andrew who was accused by Virginia Giuffre, of allegedly sleeping with her when she was 17 and underage.

Prince Andrew has consistently and vehemently denied all charges against him and settled a civil lawsuit with Giuffre with no admission of wrongdoing.

Giuffre committed suicide earlier this year.