New York: A US judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could undermine her criminal trial on charges she aided the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and committed perjury.
US District Judge Loretta Preska said on Monday, local time, Maxwell had only a “minimal” privacy interest in the 20-line excerpt, because it concerned massages and not private sexual activity of consenting adults, and the public had a right to see her testimony.
Ghislaine Maxwell lost her bid to keep her 2016 deposition suppressed. Credit:Getty Images
“There is no reason not to unseal this portion of testimony,” the Manhattan-based judge wrote.
“While the court acknowledges M. Maxwell’s interest in a fair criminal trial, Ms Maxwell can argue all her points to the presiding judge in her criminal trial, as she has already.”
