Ghislaine Maxwell said authorities let Jeffrey Epstein die.

The disgraced billionaire was found dead in his prison cell in 2019 while awaiting a trial for sex trafficking charges.

Speaking to Jeremy Kyle on his TalkTV programme, Maxwell, the billionaire’s former girlfriend, was asked to address Epstein’s victims.

Speaking from jail, she said: “I say that Epstein died and they should take their disappointment and upset out on the authorities who allowed that to happen.”

“And as I said I hope they have some closure by the judicial process that took place.”

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell wishes she “never met” disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The 61-year-old was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison last year after being found guilty of luring young girls to massage rooms so Epstein could molest them between 1994 and 2004.

Ghislaine Maxwell has said she believes Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in prison in her first interview from behind bars.

Maxwell, 61, further fuelled conspiracy theories surrounding the disgraced billionaire’s death by disputing the official ruling of suicide.

In an interview broadcast on Talk TV’s the Jeremy Kyle Show, Maxwell said that the victims should take their anger out on US authorities for allowing Epstein to die.

Bevan Hurley reports.

Maxwell said the well-known photo showing the Duke of York next to Virginia Giuffre is fake.

She added: “It’s a fake. I don’t believe it’s real for a second, in fact I’m sure it’s not.”

Maxwell said there has never been an original and further “there’s no photograph” and that she had only seen a photocopy of the photograph.

Maxwell said that believes that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.

Maxwell said: “I believe that he was murdered. I was shocked. Then I wondered how it had happened because as far as I was concerned, he was going to... I was sure he was going to appeal. And I was sure he was covered under the non-prosecution agreement.

Maxwell said she wishes she had stayed in England and never met Jeffrey Epstein.

She said at the time she “never had a problem introducing people to friends” and that Epstein seemed “friendly with everyone” and didn’t know he was “so awful”.

Maxwell has been talking about her daily life behind bars. She said that she gets up at 6am and gets breakfast of cereal and a piece of fruit.

She said that she makes her bed “military style” and there is a proscribed way to do it. If you don’t do it in the correct way you get in trouble.

Maxwell said she then head’s to the prison’s law library for where she works and then later gets lunch, which can be a tifu dish which is “beyond tasteless”.

The interview on TalkTV with Ghislaine Maxwell has started.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite who was convicted of helping the late paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, is set to hit the headlines again on Monday night when an interview she has given from her Florida prison is broadcast on UK TV.

But who exactly was Epstein, what went on at the two islands he owned in the Virgin Island, and who owns them now that he is dead?

The guests to Epstein’s islands came from across the world and from the highest ranks of society: celebrities and scientists and members of royal families, touching down in a private jet and then boarding a helicopter to the island.

Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has rarely been out of the news in recent years, due to her grooming trial and friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

But with the court hearings taking place in the US, there will be many Britons who haven’t heard her speak.

On Monday night they will get the chance, in a behind-bars interview with talk show host Jeremy Kyle on TalkTV.