Ghislaine Maxwell's niece quits school role after Epstein files reveal family secret

Matilda Munro, the niece of convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, resigned from her oversight role at a British public school after the Justice Department’s release of Epstein-related files revealed a letter she had sent a New York City federal judge on behalf of her aunt, the Daily Mail uncovered in its report published Tuesday night.

“She is of no danger to the public,” Munro wrote in a letter sent in late 2020 to the U.S. Southern District of New York. “Her treatment to date feels punitive and unjust. She had ample opportunity to leave the US legally prior to her arrest and did not do so. It is less likely not more likely that she would do so now.”

Since early 2024, Munro has served in a leadership role for Columbia Primary School in East London, and “most parents were unaware that she was related to Ghislaine,” the Daily Mail reported – that is, until the letter was released in full by the Justice Department as part of its release of Epstein-related files.

Despite Munro’s plea, and her insistance that the convicted sex trafficker was "of no danger to the public," Maxwell was not granted bail in the lead up to her trial, where she was ultimately found guilty on five felony charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. Munro stepped down from her role at Columbia Primary School on March 27, a spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Mail, and Munro did not immediately respond to the outlet’s request for comment.

Munro is the daughter of Kevin Maxwell, Ghislaine's brother, who was charged but later acquitted on charges of "plundering" the pension fund left by his father, Robert Maxwell, the Daily Mail reported. Robert Maxwell is also suspected by veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez to have potentially sold surveillance software to a U.S. nuclear research facility in New Mexico that may have been compromised by Israel, a claim supported by a declassified but heavily redacted FBI document.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence at a minimum-security prison in Texas, one she was controversially transferred to last year by the Trump administration, a transfer that required the Bureau of Prisons to waive federal prison rules given her status as a sex offender, which ordinarily would make her ineligible to be housed at a minimum-security facility.

Maxwell currently enjoys “special privileges” at the Texas prison, the conditions of which Maxwell has gushed over as “fantastic.”