“Former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal appeals court for an emergency order blocking the public release of her testimony and other documents in a civil lawsuit” Bloomberg reports.
“Maxwell, who separately faces federal sex-trafficking charges, told a Manhattan-based appeals court Thursday that her ability to get a fair trial in the criminal case will be ‘irreparably harmed’ if her testimony and other evidence in the civil suit is made public, as a judge has ordered. In the now-settled civil case, a judge has ordered some sealed documents to be released on Thursday and others, including her sworn testimony, to be made public on Aug. 3. That suit was brought by Virginia Giuffre, who claims Maxwell and Epstein lured her into becoming the financier’s sex slave when she was 16. Giuffre sued Maxwell for calling her account ‘obvious lies.'”