A judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to keep under wraps an excerpt from a 2016 deposition that she fears could threaten her criminal trial on charges she aided the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and committed perjury. Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, wanted to keep part of a 2016 deposition secret but U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said Maxwell had only a 'minimal' privacy interest in the 20-line excerpt'While the court acknowledges Ms. 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.' Maxwell believes prosecutors obtained the deposition transcript illegally, and it should be kept out of her trial. Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was arrested in July and is being held in a Brooklyn jail.

Source: Daily Mail February 08, 2021 23:03 UTC