{"id":42688,"date":"2020-07-31T05:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/court-unseals-epstein-docs-related-to-alleged-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T05:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:01:46","slug":"court-unseals-epstein-docs-related-to-alleged-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/court-unseals-epstein-docs-related-to-alleged-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Unseals Epstein Docs Related to Alleged Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A cache of court files\u00a0related to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/ghislaine-maxwell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>\u00a0were unsealed Thursday night, despite her legal team’s objections.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-plus documents stem from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by\u00a0Virginia Giuffre, who accused Maxwell of recruiting her into <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>‘s underage sex trafficking ring.\u00a0Almost 2,000 documents from Giuffre’s defamation suit\u00a0were released nearly a year ago\u00a0as prosecutors were preparing a case against convicted sex offender Epstein. The lawsuit listed Maxwell and Epstein as defendants. The former\u00a0settled with\u00a0Giuffre back in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Among the newly unsealed documents was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EpsteinMaxwell-emails.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a\u00a02015 email exchange<\/a>\u00a0between Epstein and his alleged madam Maxwell. In the correspondence, Epstein told Maxwell\u00a0she “did nothing wrong” and urged her “to start acting like it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>“Go outside, head high, not as an esacping [sic] convict,”\u00a0he continued, “go to parties. deal with it.”<\/p>\n<p>Several days before that email, Epstein had sent Maxwell a statement that she could use to distance herself from his 2007 sex abuse case. The statement read in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <\/p>\n<p>Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment;\u00a0headlines made up of quotes I have never given, statements l have never made, trips with people to places I have never been, holidays with people i have never met, false allegations of impropriety and offensive behavior that I\u00a0abhor and have never ever been party to, witness to events that l have never seen, living off trust funds that l have never ever had, party to stories that have changed materially both in time place and event depending on what paper you read, and the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p> <br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>I have never been a party in any criminal action pertaining to JE<\/p>\n<p> <br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p>…\u00a0Whilst I remained on friendly terms with [Epstein] up until his plea, I have had limited contact since.<\/p>\n<p> \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The email undermines recent statements\u00a0made by\u00a0Maxwell’s lawyers. In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/10\/nyregion\/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein.html#:~:text=Lawyers%20for%20Ghislaine%20Maxwell%2C%20the,his%20death%20in%20August%202019.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a July court filing<\/a>, her legal team claimed she had not contacted Epstein for more than a decade prior his 2019 death.\u00a0Other documents that were unsealed Thursday night include\u00a0flight logs from Epstein’s\u00a0jets as well as\u00a0police reports from Palm Beach, where Epstein had lived.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"\/>\n<p>The disgraced financier\u00a0died from an apparent suicide in his prison cell on Aug. 10 as he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Maxwell was arrested on July 2 of this year and charged with\u00a0six felony counts, including transporting a minor for the purposes of criminal sexual activity and conspiring to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell pleaded not guilty on July 14. She remains behind bars and\u00a0is scheduled to begin trial\u00a0July 12, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span>During a court hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Loretta <\/span>Preska\u00a0directed the release of documents from the aforementioned defamation case. Maxwell’s lawyers appealed the decision, arguing the documents would prevent her from getting a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>“The unsealing of Ms. Maxwell’s deposition transcript would result in substantial negative media publicity and speculation in an internet world,” Maxwell’s attorney <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/2020\/07\/29\/us-jeffrey-epstein-associate-14\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ty Gee said<\/a>.”The public\u2019s right of access to Ms. Maxwell\u2019s deposition transcript is substantially outweighed by the compelling interest in ensuring her right to a fair trial.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2020\/07\/documents-in-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-case-unsealed\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cache of court files\u00a0related to\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell\u00a0were unsealed Thursday night, despite her legal team’s objections. The 80-plus documents stem from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by\u00a0Virginia Giuffre, who accused Maxwell of recruiting her into Jeffrey Epstein‘s underage sex trafficking ring.\u00a0Almost 2,000 documents from Giuffre’s defamation suit\u00a0were released nearly a year ago\u00a0as prosecutors were preparing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1572,228,782,223,448,449,5,8134,5628,7,8,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuse","category-arrested","category-court","category-crime","category-dfp-notadsafe","category-dfp-notadsafe-noads","category-featured","category-ghislaine-maxwell","category-jeffrey-epstein","category-music","category-news","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42690,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688\/revisions\/42690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}