Lawyers representing Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, filed a motion on Thursday to keep more details about her sex life sealed.
The New York Post reported that Maxwell’s lawyers doubled down on arguments that they made when unsuccessfully trying to keep an earlier deposition sealed from the public.
Attorneys representing the 58 year-old British socialite argued that the 2016 deposition, which was given as part of Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s now-settled civil suit, would jeopardize Maxwell’s right to a fair criminal trial, embarrass her and violate a protective order that had promised to keep it private.
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“She appeared at the July 2016 deposition and answered hundreds of pages worth of questions concerning her ‘own sexual activity’ and ‘her knowledge of the sexual activities of others,’” lawyer Laura Menninger wrote of the embossing deposition.
This comes one month after US District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the release of the earlier April 2016 deposition as well as various other sensitive documents. Though Maxwell’s attorneys took the case to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, the court ultimate sided with Preska, and the 465-page deposition detailing the sordid sexual relationship between Maxwell and Epstein was released to the public.
Maxwell was arrested in July of this year on charges related to her allegedly grooming young girls for sex with Epstein, and sometimes participating in the abuse herself. She has since been remanded to prison until her trial, which is scheduled for July of 2021, after a judge deemed her to pose a substantial flight risk given her immense wealth and international connections.
“It is not possible to overstate the close relationship between the documents plaintiff wants to unseal in this case and the criminal prosecution the government is pursuing next door,” Maxwell’s lawyer Menninger wrote of the latest deposition her legal team is trying to keep private.
“The press, the government, and plaintiff have made every effort to try Ms. Maxwell as a proxy for the now deceased Mr. Epstein,” the attorney added.
Epstein allegedly committed suicide in prison back in August of 2019 while awaiting trial on various sex charges of his own.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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