After her conviction on multiple charges relating to child sex trafficking, Ghislaine Maxwell has dropped her motion to keep the names of eight “John Does” confidential and sealed in court records, CNN reports.
While the identities are not known to the public, the eight are believed to be clients of Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who provided underage girls for sexual liaisons for his high-profile friends and clients.
“After careful review of the detailed objections submitted by Non-Party Does 17, 53, 54, 55, 73, 93 and 151, counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell writes to inform the Court that she does not wish to further address those objections,” alleged sex trafficking victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s attorney Sigrid McCawley wrote. “Each of the listed Does has counsel who have ably asserted their own respective privacy rights. Ms. Maxwell therefore leaves it to this Court to conduct the appropriate review.”
Menninger noted that two of the individuals–those designated as Does 53 and 54–have not objected to their names to be made public. The court has repeatedly rejected motions to keep the names of the men private. “Upon review of the objections of those Does, it is apparent that their objections essentially mirror objections to unsealing that this Court has already rejected: that unsealing certain documents might be embarrassing, would expose non-parties to media attention, and could result in some unfortunate association between the non-parties and Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell,” McCawley wrote.