Maxwell, 58, pleaded not guilty to helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls in the 1990s, and committing perjury by denying her involvement under oath.
New York - A US judge on Wednesday denied Ghislaine Maxwell's last-ditch effort to keep a potentially damaging deposition from becoming public, as the jailed British socialite defends against criminal charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.
The depositions came from a now-closed civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre.She faces a Thursday deadline to appeal from Preska's July 23 order unsealing dozens of other documents, including flight logs from Epstein's private jets and police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein had a home.
In opposing the unsealing, her lawyers had accused Giuffre and federal prosecutors of violating a protective order in the civil case designed to keep Maxwell's deposition confidential. They accused Giuffre of leaking the deposition, and"in conjunction with the government" setting a"perjury trap" for their client.
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