July 16, 2021- 10:05 a.m.
A federal court in New York unsealed dozens of documents Thursday many of the 52 documents pertain to a prior defamation lawsuit involving one of Epstein’s accusers. There is also a motion for a protective order filed by Maxwell’s lawyers to limit the amount of information about her finances they had to hand over.
Judge Loretta Preska last month ruled to unseal dozens of documents about Maxwell’s personal affairs and documents from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit. Maxwell’s attorneys had opposed the move.
Giuffre has alleged that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her when she was 17 years old. She is now in her 30s.
In the sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam for disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, 59, is charged with lying under oath and recruiting, grooming and trafficking girls to be sexually abused by Epstein from the 1990s through 2004. She has pleaded not guilty and if convicted would face up to 40 years in prison on the most serious charge. The trial is set to begin in November after being delayed in July.
Many of the messages came from Maxwell. But others appeared to be routine notes on mundane topics – call-back requests and a message from an acquaintance who pulled a muscle and had to cancel a lunch meeting. Several of them mentioned massage appointments.
One, an undated message for Epstein from Maxwell, reads, “Would be helpful to have [redacted] come to Palm Beach today to stay here and help train new staff with Ghislaine.”
Judge APPROVES Unsealing of Documents Linking the Clinton’s to Epstein Sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell
Another, from a redacted caller recorded at 11:20 a.m. on Feb. 27, 2005, reads, “Please call her back. She wanted [to] make sure you know that she is going to meet Ghislaine and go with her to the Ranch.”
An undated message, which appears between entries dated in July and August of 2005, mentions a female offering a massage.
In one exchange, Giuffre’s former attorney David Boies asks Maxwell if she knows the ages of any of the women involved with giving massages to Epstein at his Palm Beach mansion.
“The ones that I did recognize were roughly my age,” she replies. “The ones I don’t know, I wouldn’t have a clue.”
The documents also include portions of the explosive 2016 deposition of Rinaldo Rizzo, a former private chef for the hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, who claimed Epstein and Maxwell had brought a disoriented, 15-year-old Swedish girl to his employers’ home.
Rizzo said the girl was left sitting on a barstool in the kitchen as he and his wife were preparing the evening meal.
“She doesn’t want to come to the movies, but call her if you want a massage before or after the movie,” it reads. The topic of massages frequently came up in Maxwell’s deposition, although her lawyer advised her not to answer most of those questions.
