Former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz has urged President Trump to pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell who is currently serving 20 years in federal prison for her role in trafficking minors to VIP pedophiles.

Dershowitz claims that Maxwell’s ‘excessive’ 20-year sentence should be commuted for her immediate release, and then a pardon. Certainly she should get a commutation. The sentence was way, way, way in excess of anything she was alleged to have done.

‘She was in part a victim of Epstein,’ he continued. ‘The fact that Epstein died made her a primary target and caused an excessive sentence to her. Some executive clemency is very much warranted in her case.’

The former Harvard Law School professor also believes the president should use his executive powers to lower the age of consent to just 14 years of age.

The age of consent should be lowered to 14 because “voluntary sex is so common in their age group“, claims Dershowitz, who published a revealing op-ed titled “Statutory Rape Is An Outdated Concept” in the late 90s.

Dershowitz has since defended the column on X.

Dershowitz was a member of the team that got convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal that sent him to prison for 18 months in 2007, a sentence that was described as “the deal of the century” amid claims he should have received a much longer sentence.

The lawyer is now speaking out about Maxwell in the wake of the surprise pardons for TV reality couple Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of federal bank fraud and tax evasion charges in 2022.

His remarks also come after the Daily Mail revealed that speculation is swirling over a possible pardon for Maxwell – who is doing time in a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida – due to her association with Epstein. 

One ultra-close source to the Maxwell family told the Mail last week: ‘It’s not a bad idea to ask President Trump for a pardon. He knew her. He’s probably got views about whether she’s guilty or innocent.’

Maxwell’s freedom-campaigning brothers Ian, 69, and Kevin, 66, have not so far petitioned for a pardon or commutation, the family source told us. But they have not ruled out the possibility.