Long-Sealed Damning Evidence From Giuffre v. Maxwell Heads Toward Public Release (8/19/26)

About This Episode

A new round of records from Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell was set to become public after Judge Loretta Preska rejected Maxwell’s latest attempt to keep the material sealed. Giuffre had sued Maxwell after Maxwell publicly accused her of lying about being sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and others, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The case eventually settled in 2017, but enormous portions of the discovery record remained hidden under a sweeping pr