Ghislaine Maxwell breaks silence on Jeffrey Epstein's links to Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in extraordinary new audio files

She told US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that Donald Trump was "a gentleman in all respects" and "was never inappropriate with anybody", the transcripts reveal.

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"I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting," she said.

However, Maxwell added that she "might have" recruited massesuses from Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort to work for Epstein.

She confirmed to Mr Blanche that Bill Clinton travelled frequently with Epstein on his "Lolita Express" private plane - but never received a massage, nor visited the Little Saint James "Epstein Island".

Epstein, on the other hand, "involved himself" with the couple's Clinton Global Initiative, she said.

Dozens of young women and girls were recruited to "perform massages and work" for Epstein, court papers last year revealed.

Friday's transcripts show that sex trafficker Maxwell, now 63, was paid $250,000 per year by Epstein on a "kind of payroll".

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And in a bombshell new twist, she told Mr Blanche: "I do not believe he died by suicide, no," and suggested he may have been killed in his cell by a paid prisoner.

Regarding Prince Andrew, Maxwell denied having introduced the Duke of York to paedophile Epstein - and described Sarah, Duchess of York, as a "frenemy".

"First of all, let's just state, I did not introduce him to Prince Andrew. I did not introduce him to Prince Andrew or to Sarah Ferguson. That is a flat untruth. I’ll start with that," Maxwell told Mr Blanche.

She added: "So, the allegation, I have to go with the allegation. The allegation was that at my house in London, in March, whatever that was - 2001 I believe - we went to London, especially so that [REDACTION] could have a - or [REDACTION] could have a relationship with Prince Andrew and she was paid a vast amount of money for that purpose."

However, Maxwell also said it would "never have occured" to her to introduce the pair.

"I couldn't imagine them being friends. Two chalk and cheeses would never - I mean, for real, there's nothing there to connect them," Maxwell said.

"So he met Prince Andrew and then he had a really good relationship. I don’t like that word. It sounds clunky," she added - and revealed that Epstein told her to arrange the disgraced Duke's visit to New York.

Asked whether the now-world's richest man Elon Musk knew Epstein, Maxwell said: "I believe they did. And the only reason I say that is not from my memory, but because I saw - I think I saw - my memory is that in discovery, they were communicating on email."

And probed on Mossad, Maxwell said she did not "deliberately" have any contact with the prolific Israeli spy agency.

Some have suggested Epstein was a spy for Mossad - which Israel vehemently denies.

Maxwell was also confirmed to have spoken to Mr Blanche off the record - with details of those conversations not included in the transcripts or files.

Though towards the end of the interview, she said Mr Trump "got swept into" the Epstein files debacle "unnecessarily".

"I just would like to put out there that I also focused on how I think the President got swept into some of this unnecessarily, by the way," she said.

"And I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I certainly don't subscribe to... everything that I see.

"But I do believe that there is animus in some areas that may have contributed to how the use of the President to harm him, that I find deeply offensive."