Transcript With Over 400 Pages From Ghislaine Maxwell’s Deposition Unsealed

In a newly unsealed deposition transcription, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, denied any knowledge of his abuse.

The 2016 deposition, which her lawyers have fought for years to keep sealed, is connected to a 2015 defamation case from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Epstein had sexually abused her while she was underage and that Maxwell assisted him in the abuse. The civil case was settled in 2017, and Maxwell has argued that the sworn testimony should be kept under wraps ever since. However, a federal appeals court upheld the decision that the 58-year-old’s deposition should be made available to the public.

“(T)he District Court correctly held that the deposition materials are judicial documents to which the presumption of public access attaches and did not abuse its discretion in rejecting Maxwell’s meritless arguments that her interests superseded the presumption of access,” wrote the appellate court panel after the announcement Maxwell had lost her legal battle to keep the document, which is over 400 pages long, sealed.

In the transcripts, which were detailed by CNN, Maxwell denies helping Epstein find his victims. “I never saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey ever,” she claimed at the time. “All the time that I have been in the house I have never seen, heard, nor witnessed, nor have reported to me that any activities took place, that people were in distress, either reported to me by the staff or anyone else.” In the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged that Maxwell recruited her as a masseuse when she was underage, and that Epstein kept her as a “sex slave.”