Epstein Floodgates Open as Judge Rules Explosive Ghislaine Maxwell Docs Be Unsealed

Epstein Floodgates Open as Judge Rules Explosive Docs Detailing Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Life Can Be Unsealed in Virginia Giuffre’s Defamation Case Within a Week

By Daily Mail. A judge today has ordered the unsealing of a vast tranche of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, which could shed light on his friendship with powerful men accused of having sex with his victims.

Judge Loretta Preska said that 80 documents – which will run to hundreds of pages – should be made public within a week.

The documents will include depositions from Ghislaine Maxwell, which could explain her alleged role in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

They could include details about Maxwell’s sex life that her lawyers have previously tried to stop from being released, relating to a seven-hour, 418-page deposition Maxwell gave which her legal team said was ‘extremely personal, confidential’. . .

The documents will also include communications between Maxwell and Epstein from January 2015 when Virginia Roberts made explosive allegations about them in court papers. (Read more from “Epstein Floodgates Open as Judge Rules Explosive Docs Detailing Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Life Can Be Unsealed in Virginia Giuffre’s Defamation Case Within a Week” HERE)

____________________________________________________

What Ghislaine Maxwell’s Court Document Release Means for Prince Andrew and Others in Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’

By Forbes. . .[I]t’s important to remember how crucial Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s narrative of her three alleged encounters with Prince Andrew are to her claims of being trafficked, specifically to London, specifically at the hands of Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. In this sense it can be argued that the news of the release of the civil documents is worse for Prince Andrew than it is for his old friend Maxwell, since Andrew sits in a luxe sort of confinement of his own making, un-indicted but inexorably at the forefront of the thinking at every turn the criminal case against his friend takes. . .

For his part, Alan Dershowitz, a friend of Epstein’s who advised him as he squeaked out his generous deal from the Florida prosecutors upon his conviction in 2010, welcomed the release. Dershowitz said, “I’m thrilled that all the documents come out, because I have nothing to hide.” . . .

The content from the Roberts Giuffre lawsuit will land imminently, and its triggering effect of renewed, very public scrutiny of that time period in Epstein’s and in Andrew’s lives will present Prince Andrew and his “working group” of legal and public relations advisors with a choice. They will have to unfetter their hitherto unhurried approach toward a more cooperative posture with the American authorities, or, somewhat likelier, they will have to figure out how to employ that process as cover for a more successful groundhog-backing-slowly-into-his-burrow attempt than they have been able to provide the prince to date.

It’s up for grabs whether anybody can, or could, successfully bury the issue for the prince, but that possibility seems far more remote now. Either way, the news of the document release of the Roberts Giuffre civil action is bad for Andrew, and as more documents than these immediate ones will be made public by Judge Preska, the retired prince’s legal and public relations prospects for the coming months look rough. (Read more from “What Ghislaine Maxwell’s Court Document Release Means for Prince Andrew and Others in Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE