‘Taj Mahal dwarfs pyramids’: Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s redacted email after India visit

In an email revealed in the ‘Epstein Files’, Ghislaine Maxwell, partner and associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said the Taj Mahal dwarfed the Egyptian pyramids. She called the Taj her favourite of the world’s Seven Wonders along with the Great Wall of China.

In the undated email to a person whose name has been redacted, Maxwell described her visit to Inda as “sublime chaos”.

Maxwell said, “India can be described as sublime chaos. Loud, swarming, by turns wafts of incense followed by earth mixed with human and animal in equal measure snake charmers and dentists side by side on the curb. Honking horns followed by an African silence.”

Maxwell went on to describe the Taj as the “most favourite building I have ever seen”. She said the Taj dwarfs the Pyramids or Egypt.

But Maxwell concluded the email on a sour note, saying she contracted “Ebola or Sars or some equally hideous thing” on the trip and lost five pounds in sickness.

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🇮🇳Ghislaine Maxwell emailed (redacted) from New York after a trip to India.

She called it sublime chaos with incense, snake charmers, and dentists side by side.

Raved that the Taj Mahal is her favorite building in the world.

Then complained she came back sick as hell, down… https://t.co/0IDcAqQpmv pic.twitter.com/9ELhiLyncx

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 24, 2026

While the email did not mention when Maxwell visited India, a podcast, Chasing Ghislaine: The Untold Story of the Woman in Epstein’s Shadow, featured investigative journalist Vicky Ward reporting that she joined former US President Bill Clinton on a vacation to India in 2003 and visited the Taj.

Ward claimed that Maxwell and Clinton undertook the trip on a private aeroplane owned by billionaire Ron Burkle as part of the Clinton Foundation’s work.

Newsweek has reported that a 2003 statement on the Clinton Foundation’s website mentions a recent visit to India by Clinton as part of a “trip around the world during which I focused on the importance of global cooperation in the fight against Aids”. The statement does not mention Maxwell.