Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, got some bad news this week when a federal judge ordered that a deposition that includes new details about her sex life be released by 9am on Thursday.
The Associated Press reported that U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered the release of transcripts that detail two days-worth of a 2016 deposition of Maxwell’s, as well as the deposition transcript of an anonymous accuser. These deposition pertain to a lawsuit that was filed against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the alleged former sex slave of Epstein.
Lawyers for Maxwell, 58, had been fighting to keep the documents sealed, arguing that they contain embarrassing details about her sex life. They also said that the documents should remain sealed to protect the British socialite’s right to a fair trial in July on charges that she helped Epstein traffic and sexually abuse teenage girls in the 1990s. Maxwell was arrested back in July, and remanded to prison until her trial next summer after a judge deemed her to be a significant flight risk given her immense wealth and international connections.
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Late on Tuesday, prosecutors filed papers arguing that forty pages of materials and forty pictures related to women abused by Epstein after the period addressed in the indictment should not be released to Maxwell’s attorneys until the trial is just eight weeks away.
“The premature revelation of this information would give the defendant the opportunity to interfere with the Government’s investigation before it is complete. Such information could allow her to contact and intimidate witnesses, destroy evidence relevant to the investigation, or alert other targets of the investigation,” prospectors wrote in the filing.
Maxwell’s lawyers want the materials to be released sooner, arguing that they could be important to her defense. However, prosecutors have fired back by saying that showing that the socialite was not part of the abuse of some women could not be used to argue she did not join the abuse of minors from 1994 to 1997.
“The Government has not charged Maxwell with being Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam’ and ‘principal facilitator of his abuse,’” they stated.
Epstein committed suicide in prison in August of 2019 while awaiting trial on sex charges of his own. Maxwell has plead not guilty to all of the charges she is facing.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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