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Maxwell has given up on her battle to keep 'vast swathes of information' about her 'sex trafficking operation' with Jeffrey Epstein sealed after alleged victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre requested they be made public.
Attorneys for Giuffre, who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, asked Judge Loretta Preska Wednesday to unseal material from her 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell that includes references to eight anonymous John Does.
The individuals are identified in court documents only as 'Non-Parties 17, 53, 54, 55, 56, 73, 93 and 151'.
It is not clear if one of them is the Duke of York. Six have objected to the unsealing.
Maxwell, who last month was found guilty of procuring girls for the late paedophile, had also previously opposed making the documents public, but now appears to have had a change of heart.
In a letter to Judge Preska Wednesday, Maxwell's attorney Laura Menninger said her client will 'leave it to the court' to determine whether the names should be unsealed.
According to the filings, John Doe 17 is among those wishing to keep their identity under wraps, arguing that being named in the case would cause him 'annoyance and embarrassment.'
Another John Doe, number 151, claimed that he was 'trying to live a private life' and that disclosure meant they would be 'hounded' by the media.
The request to make the documents public came on the day that Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Giuffre's battery lawsuit against Prince Andrew, a separate case also filed at the federal court in New York, can move forward.
If Judge Preska decides to unseal the documents in Giuffre's case, they could shed new light on the Duke's dealings with Maxwell and Epstein.
Preska is the judge who presided over a defamation lawsuit that Giuffre filed against Maxwell in 2015 for calling her a liar.
The case was settled with confidential terms but the judge has slowly been approving the release of hundreds of documents in the case after applications from media organizations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nd-unsealing-information-Epstein-Maxwell.html
I would probably bet money that none of them are influential or well known.. I suspect that she's handed these 8 names over as an offering of ''all she knows'' , in an attempt to have her sentence reduced and will not name names of very well known people in the public eye...
Attorneys for Giuffre, who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, asked Judge Loretta Preska Wednesday to unseal material from her 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell that includes references to eight anonymous John Does.
The individuals are identified in court documents only as 'Non-Parties 17, 53, 54, 55, 56, 73, 93 and 151'.
It is not clear if one of them is the Duke of York. Six have objected to the unsealing.
Maxwell, who last month was found guilty of procuring girls for the late paedophile, had also previously opposed making the documents public, but now appears to have had a change of heart.
In a letter to Judge Preska Wednesday, Maxwell's attorney Laura Menninger said her client will 'leave it to the court' to determine whether the names should be unsealed.
According to the filings, John Doe 17 is among those wishing to keep their identity under wraps, arguing that being named in the case would cause him 'annoyance and embarrassment.'
Another John Doe, number 151, claimed that he was 'trying to live a private life' and that disclosure meant they would be 'hounded' by the media.
The request to make the documents public came on the day that Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Giuffre's battery lawsuit against Prince Andrew, a separate case also filed at the federal court in New York, can move forward.
If Judge Preska decides to unseal the documents in Giuffre's case, they could shed new light on the Duke's dealings with Maxwell and Epstein.
Preska is the judge who presided over a defamation lawsuit that Giuffre filed against Maxwell in 2015 for calling her a liar.
The case was settled with confidential terms but the judge has slowly been approving the release of hundreds of documents in the case after applications from media organizations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nd-unsealing-information-Epstein-Maxwell.html
I would probably bet money that none of them are influential or well known.. I suspect that she's handed these 8 names over as an offering of ''all she knows'' , in an attempt to have her sentence reduced and will not name names of very well known people in the public eye...