Mr Trump attended a dinner organised by Maxwell at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in honour of her close friend the Duke of York in 1999, according to The New York Post.

Ghislaine Maxwell never testified in her own criminal trial, but today she spoke to Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche. After spending nearly five hours with Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney,

"There were a lot of questions and we went all day,” David Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer, said following the encounter. "And she answered every one of them."