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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mountaineer on July 23, 2020, 10:25:10 pm
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Oh lawzy.
Epstein floodgates open as judge rules explosive docs detailing Ghislaine Maxwell's sex life can be UNSEALED in Virginia Giuffre's defamation case within a week
* Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan ruled on Thursday to unseal more than 80 documents that Ghislaine Maxwell had wanted to keep under wraps
* Preska said the documents - which will run to hundreds of pages - should be made public within a week
*They include flight logs from Epstein's jets, a deposition in 2016 in which Maxwell's lawyers said she was asked 'intrusive' questions about her sex life
*The documents also include police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein had a home
*It will include communications between Maxwell and Epstein from January 2015 when Virginia Roberts Giuffre made allegations about them in court papers
*In the papers Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times when she was just 17 at Epstein’s command
*The documents were part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Maxwell, which was confidentially settled in 2017
*The case is separate from the criminal proceedings against Maxwell, who is accused of procuring girls as young as 14 for Epstein to abuse
By Daniel Bates For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:28 EDT, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 16:01 EDT, 23 July 2020
Full story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8553717/Epstein-flood-gates-open-judge-rules-explosive-Ghislaine-Maxwell-docs-unsealed.html)
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As usual, we have to read about this in the foreign press.
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New Jeffrey Epstein accuser warns there’s ‘wave’ of younger victims yet to speak out
By Ben Feuerherd
July 24, 2020 | 6:14pm
A 22-year-old woman has reportedly said she was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 — years after he was first arrested for sex trafficking — and warned there may be a “wave†of younger victims who have yet to come forward.
The victim, identified by the Daily Mail as “Marie,†told the newspaper she was raped and sexually abused by the multi-millionaire financier during two visits to his sprawling Manhattan townhouse in the summer of 2015. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/new-jeffrey-epstein-accuser-warns-theres-wave-of-younger-victims/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow)
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Sludgegates is probably more accurate. I pity any jury member that has to hear or read what she has been.
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Federal judge orders secret Ghislaine Maxwell documents to begin being unsealed
By Ben Feuerherd
July 28, 2020 | 3:49pm
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of previously unseen documents in a civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell, according to court papers.
Judge Loretta Preska ordered the release of five collections of documents that relate to a seven-hour, 418-page deposition Maxwell gave as part of a now-settled defamation lawsuit filed against her in 2015 by Virginia Giuffre.
The papers are among a trove of secret filings that were ordered unsealed by Preska in a court hearing last week. They’ll be posted to a public docket by Thursday, according to Tuesday’s court filing. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/fed-judge-orders-secret-ghislaine-maxwell-docs-to-begin-being-unsealed/)
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Short of Ms. Maxwell's untimely incapacitation or demise, I don't think there is any way to keep a lid on things. Oh wait...