‘Damning Evidence’ From Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 Lawsuit Against Ghislaine Maxwell to Be Released: Report

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More damning documents about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could be on the way after a Manhattan Federal Court judge agreed to unseal the “voluminous” case files from a more than decade-old lawsuit against the convicted madam.

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown — whose reporting led to the downfall of the disgraced financier pedophile — reported the decision from Judge Loretta Preska on her Substack on Tuesday.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in 2015, after Maxwell accused Giuffre of making up sex trafficking allegations against Epstein and others, including the former Prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — who is now under police probe for his ties to the pedophile.

Brown and the Miami Herald have fought in court for nearly a decade to unseal the hefty case files from Giuffre’s lawsuit, Brown wrote, adding:

The lawsuit was settled in early 2017. I had been told the discovery contained damning evidence against Epstein, Maxwell and other men, and that it was worth trying to get the courts to unseal the documents on the grounds that they were never properly sealed in the first place.

Judicial records by law are supposed to be open to the public. In this case, the former judge (Robert Sweet, now deceased) issued a blanket sealing on all the documents because they contained “sensitive” and “private” information. Sweet placed a protective order on massive amounts of material, including hearings and judicial decisions made in the case — and voluminous evidence that Virginia presented to show that Epstein and Maxwell were operating an underage sex trafficking operation.

This is not the way sealing is supposed to happen, however. Each document that the lawyers want sealed has to be examined, and those requesting it be sealed must provide legal justification to the judge for doing so. This wasn’t done in this case.

Last week, Preska rejected Maxwell’s bid to keep the files under wraps, noting the “Epstein Files Transparency Act superseded any earlier grand jury arguments that Maxwell was using to keep the records from the public,” Brown wrote.

Maxwell, 64, was convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and other crimes and later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Giuffre, who was found dead in April 2025 at her home in Western Australia, struggled in the final years of her life after being seriously hurt in a car crash and separating from her husband, according to reports. She was 41 years old.

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