Ghislaine Maxwell boasted to her family about getting special treatment behind bars — including private visits with snacks and front-of-the-line access, according to private emails revealed by a former employee of a Texas federal lock-up.
Whistleblower Noella Turnage claimed Jeffrey Epstein’s madam took advantage of her “highly unusual” relationship with the jail warden at Federal Prison Camp Bryan — getting perks other inmates don’t, like water bottle and food deliveries to her cell.
“What I can tell you is that the things that were being done for her were not common for any of the other inmates, not even the other high-profile inmates,” Turner said noting she didn’t personally encounter Maxwell but found out about her alleged preferential treatment through the emails.
When the disgraced British socialite’s family was coming to visit her from the UK, the prison all but rolled out the red carpet for them, Turnage said in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.“
“‘I believe they will provide some water/coffee and snack – you will not go without anything after flying all the way from the UK…’” Maxwell allegedly wrote in an email to her brother, according to Turnage. “‘Also you will arrive at the front like everyone else but there will be a coned off area for you – only you will go there – they will be waiting for you from 8am.”’
Meanwhile, other visitors only have access to snacks from a vending machine, Turnage said, according to a report by the Daily Beast.
The private rendezvous closed down visitation for the other inmates at the facility, said Turnage who initially worked as a nurse at the camp before getting moved to the mailroom.
“The lengths they went to to provide a private visit for Maxwell actually caused visitation to be shut down for the rest of the inmates that weekend,” Turnage said. “They were not able to see their families that Saturday to make way for Maxwell to see her visitors.”
Maxwell was transferred in August to the cushy facility nicknamed “Club Fed” days after a huddle with DOJ officials in which she dished about Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. She has been angling for a pardon in exchange for an offer to testify in Congress.
“What I can tell you is that the things that were being done for her were not common for any of the other inmates, not even the other high-profile inmates,” said Turnage, who worked at the facility for six years.
Turnage said she heard from an inmate that Maxwell was receiving “bottled waters and clamshell meals delivered to her room.”
Maxwell told her brother in one of the leaked emails that things were so good for her in the clink that she felt like “I have dropped through Alice in Wonderlands [sic] looking glass.”
The warden also personally handled Maxwell’s mail, including legal documents for her case, all while most inmates struggle receiving personal correspondence, Turnage claimed.
“So for them to go out of the way to make sure Maxwell had that, that opportunity, was pretty disgusting to me,” the ex-employee said.
And while Maxwell had “highly unusual” access to the warden other inmates “do not have direct access to the warden, and certainly not at their convenience,” Turner said.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of grooming girls and women for Epstein’s sexual pleasure and she was hit with a 20 year sentence.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on Maxwell’s case but said the BOP investigates allegations of preferential treatment since it violates prison rules.
