Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2021, but her attorney is lobbying to secure an early release. 

Who is the man representing Maxwell?

David Oscar Markus has been Maxwell’s attorney dating back to her trial in 2021, when she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse young girls with Epstein. Markus has continued to represent Maxwell and was involved in interviews between the Department of Justice and Maxwell, which took place in late-July over a two-day period.

Following the interviews, Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a Federal Prison camp in Bryan, Texas. Neither the Department of Justice nor Maxwell’s attorney explained why she was transferred.

Markus previously told Fox News Digital that “people shouldn’t be so quick to judge and throw stones” after Maxwell’s move to a minimum security prison camp.

General view of Federal Prison Camp Bryan on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025 in Bryan, Texas. Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred here last week from her FCI Tallahassee. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Markus has also, so far, successfully prevented the disclosure of grand jury transcripts in Maxwell’s sex trafficking case.

“Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” her attorney wrote. “Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain.”

A federal judge on Monday denied the Department of Justice’s request to release the grand jury material, stating the documents do not contain “significant, undisclosed information about [their] crimes, or the investigation into them.”

Criminal defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh, who knows Markus, told Fox News Digital that Maxwell’s attorney “seems to understand what many high-profile lawyers don’t.”

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

“He’s extremely brilliant, dedicated, passionate, zealous, experienced, and extremely humble. He seems to understand what many high-profile lawyers don’t, and that is his ego is not his amigo,” Eiglarsh said. “He does not shy away from a challenge. And boy, does he have a challenge here. Getting the Supreme Court to take this case at all is going to be extremely challenging. But then to zealously argue and effectively get them to embrace this case and his point of view, he’s probably one of the only of few attorneys who could ever pull that off.”

Fox News’ Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.