Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed in “solitary confinement” after giving a television interview from behind bars, prison insiders have revealed.
Maxwell, 61, appeared on Talk TV last month in a series of recorded audio and video calls discussing prison life and blaming pedophile ex-lover Jeffrey Epstein for his downfall.
Now it is said that the heads of the Federal Correctional Institute in Tallahassee began an investigation because inmates are only allowed ‘video visits’ from a carefully vetted list of friends, family and lawyers.
Insiders told the Daily Mail that Maxwell is believed to have violated the terms of his 20-year sex trafficking sentence by selling his story to a journalist.
However, Maxwell was quick to protest his innocence, even on air at the time when Jeremy Kyle said he wasn’t paid a “fucking dime” for the interview.
She was later taken to the Special Housing Unit (SHU), a ‘prison within a prison’ where inmates are locked up for 23 hours straight and fed through cracks in the door, it is claimed.
A source said: “About two weeks after the show was on TV, Max was minding her own business when they walked in, turned her around and handcuffed her.”
“She was very upset, she was crying, she was screaming that she had not received any money, but no one saw her again for three days.
‘SHU is not a nice place. You go in there if you’re suicidal, fail a drug test, or get into a fight.
It’s like a little box and they only allow you to shower once a day. No contact from anyone, no privileges, they slide their meals through a slot.
“Normally people stay there for at least two weeks, but she got out in about 48 hours because there was no evidence that she was guilty.”
Maxwell used his January 23 interview with TalkTV’s Jeremy Kyle to complain about his 6 a.m. starts and his boring diet of tofu and beans.
He also sparked controversy by claiming without evidence that the now notorious photograph of Prince Andrew with Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre was a fake.
“Ghislaine Maxwell agreed to be interviewed for the first time in a series of recorded audio and phone calls from behind bars,” Kyle boasted, billing her interview as an explosive world exclusive.
“During that call, Maxwell told our interviewers and his brother Kevin, who was also present, that he was suffering from depression and had lost everything.”
The TV host directly addressed the question of whether Maxwell was paid for the exclusive chat, saying: ‘How much did we pay Maxwell for this interview?
‘Let me tell you categorically, not a damn penny and neither are we.’
Federal inmates can schedule 25-minute video calls with an approved list of family and friends through the federal prison network’s CorrLinks system.
Fellow inmates say Maxwell insists he didn’t break any rules because he was talking to a longtime genuine friend, filmmaker Daphne Barak, who was asking the questions that appeared on Kyle’s show.
In fact, the clips of Maxwell speaking were taken from a longer interview with Maxwell, conducted by Barak and produced by CBS.
Barak has interviewed Maxwell on several previous occasions for newspaper articles and has even circulated a photo of her behind bars unopposed.
What upset Maxwell the most was that she was thrown into the SHU before the facts were known,” a source said.
They added: ‘She hasn’t been the same since, it’s brought her down and down. She thinks that they are being intentionally cruel and mean to her.
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