As a result of U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska’s ruling, reams of documents concerning Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell could be unsealed as early as next week
Maxwell in happier times. Photo: Shutterstock A new cache of documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein may soon come to light, U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska ruled today.
The Giuffre case is the source of much of the public information about Epstein and Maxwell’s alleged crimes. Originally sealed after the settling of the case, the material came back to light in 2019, when a coalition of intervenors to the suit — odd bedfellows, including the Miami Herald and its reporter Julie K.
Though the judge’s order beforehand noted that she intended to rule on the unsealing of just five documents — docket Nos. 143, 164, 172, 199, and 230 — at the hearing itself, she read through a much more comprehensive list, spending a full 20 minutes reviewing the many documents to be unsealed or further unsealed. Laura Menninger, an attorney for Maxwell, asked for a two-week stay to file an emergency motion to appeal the ruling with the Second Circuit.
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