giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1134.0_5
2 pg
…Id. at 1. But it should not
come as a surprise that those “non-parties,” including those implicated as potential abusers within
Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking conspiracy, would seek to obscure as much information
concerning their conduct as possible…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1068.0
31 pg
…public’s interest in this litigation, which involved voluminous
documents and testimony about Jeffrey Epstein’s transcontinental sex-trafficking operation and
documents concerning various public agencies’ utter failure to protect and bring justice to his
victims. See United States v…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1196.0
32 pg
… This
4 testimony is, in any case, far afield from the sex trafficking
5 and sexual abuse allegations that were central to the dispute
6 in Giuffre v. Maxwell. Although the prurient interest of some
7 may be left unsatiated…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1021.0
18 pg
… I
14 would think you would give me this much material. You know,
15 this document implicates this person's privacy interests
16 because she is said to be a victim of sex trafficking. That's
17 all you need…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.16_1
12 pg
…attempt at
gamesmanship by Defendant (and Dershowitz), who use confidentiality designations as a shield
to block release of information about Epstein’s sex trafficking while attempting to strike down
Ms. Giuffre designations about such things as being sexually assaulted while…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1242.0
9 pg
…action.
5
Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1242 Filed 02/16/22 Page 7 of 9
There are few other instances where the public’s interest could be greater than in the sex
trafficking of young girls…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1156.0
35 pg
…her
deposition testimony. Maxwell Br. at 8-10. The public is entitled to review information
concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking conspiracy that, until recently and until this unsealing
process began, remained largely unpunished and undisclosed. Because Maxwell’s deposition…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1335.5
12 pg
…attempt at
gamesmanship by Defendant (and Dershowitz), who use confidentiality designations as a shield
to block release of information about Epstein’s sex trafficking while attempting to strike down
Ms. Giuffre designations about such things as being sexually assaulted while…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1248.0
6 pg
…allowed to conceal from the
public. It is vitally important for the public to understand how the sex trafficking of young girls by
the wealthy and powerful was able to persist for years with impunity. And any adults who
participated…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1149.0
18 pg
…deposition was “a long time
coming and a welcome step towards revealing the evidence of the scope and scale of the Jeffrey
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking ring.”4 Plaintiff’s counsel undoubtedly wants,
and is trying to have…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1025.0
17 pg
…UNSEALING OF SEALED DOCUMENTS
A Federal Court authorized this notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.
This case involves allegations of sexual abuse and sexual trafficking of minors. Some documents
submitted to the Court were filed under seal…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.949.0
31 pg
…report, which unfortunately is
10 all too timely today, about a sexual predator and a sexual
11 trafficking scheme, and this case relates very much to it.
12 We have a lot of information in Florida where
13 Mr. Epstein…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1037.0
16 pg
…UNSEALING OF SEALED DOCUMENTS
A Federal Court authorized this notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.
This case involves allegations of sexual abuse and sexual trafficking of minors. Some
documents submitted to the Court were filed under seal…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1354.0
7 pg
…lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators (including against several of his financial
institutions); and the public and its elected officials have made uncovering details about Epstein’s
sex-trafficking operation a top priority. Over the past two years…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1351.0
32 pg
…the district court.
BACKGROUND
This appeal has its origins in a 2015 defamation action brought in the
Southern District of New York by plaintiff Virginia Giuffre, a victim of
sexual trafficking by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre charged defendant
Ghislaine Maxwell…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.833.0
4 pg
…publications.
Although Plaintiff’s counsel, in her arguments, made reference to allegedly confidential
evidence of sexual trafficking, she knowingly did so in the presence of undersigned counsel.
Moreover, her arguments were sufficiently vague in detail as to merely referencing flight…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.148.0
9 pg
…Plaintiff, in publicly filed
pleadings accused Ms. Maxwell and others of enslaving her when she was a minor and sexually
trafficking her to powerful men around the world. She then contacted various media
organizations and repeated these false allegations. Along…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1155.0_2
13 pg
…public interest in these
judicial documents. But sexual content alone is insufficient to justify continued sealing of Ms.
Maxwell’s deposition transcript. This case concerns allegations of sexual assault and trafficking
of minors. Therefore, discovery in the case would involve…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1253.0
12 pg
…s assertion, the public’s interest in the present case, one
involving the sex trafficking of minors, is not the same as the equal protection claim in Kelly,
which involved issues concerning the propriety of certain tax filings. See July…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.892.0
11 pg
…J ., concurring in part and dissenting in part))
Because of the sensitive nature of the materials designated as
confidential , involving allegations of sexual abuse and
trafficking of minors, and because we are mere weeks from
assembling a jury for trial …
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