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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deposition British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell gave in 2016 related to her dealings with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein is expected to be made public on Thursday, a document Maxwell had fought hard to keep under wraps.
Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s, and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement in any such scheme when she gave her deposition under oath.
The April 2016 deposition came from a now-settled civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, who has said Epstein kept her as a “sex slave” with Maxwell’s assistance.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan directed that a transcript of Maxwell’s testimony and other documents be released by 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on Thursday.
Lawyers for Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate, had argued she believed the deposition would remain confidential and that releasing it would violate her constitutional right against self-incrimination.
The lawyers had also argued that making the deposition public could imperil Maxwell’s ability to get a fair trial, because jurors might hold its contents against her.
“If the unsealing order goes into effect, it will forever let the cat out of the bag,” and “intimate, sensitive, and personal information” about Maxwell might “spread like wildfire across the Internet,” her lawyers said in August.
https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKBN2770FZ
10/21/20
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend and alleged accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein, conducted by lawyers for one of Epstein's accusers be released to the public by Thursday morning.
The Associated Press reported that U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the conversations between lawyers for Virginia Giuffre and Maxwell be released following a decision by a federal appeals court finding arguments by Maxwell's lawyers to keep them sealed to be meritless.
The conversations, which took place in 2016, came as part of Giuffre's lawsuit against Maxwell accusing her of taking part in the abuse of Giuffre while she was underage. The lawsuit was settled in 2017.
Ghislaine Maxwell interview transcripts to be released Thursday
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522116-ghislaine-maxwell-interview-transcripts-to-be-released-thursday