“Having reviewed, among other things: (i) NBC News letter applications, dated August 13, 2025 and September 12, 2025, to ‘unseal’ the names of two individuals (‘Individual-1 and Individual-2’) who had been included in the Government’s July 16, 2019 application to detain (remand) Epstein pending trial; (ii) the letter, dated September 5, 2025, from Brittany N Henderson and Bradley J Edwards, counsel to Epstein victims, contending that ‘it is imperative that the [two] names remain sealed, as disclosure poses a real threat to victims’ safety and privacy and would be in violation of 18 USC § 3771′ (the ‘Crime Victims’ Rights Act’), and (iii) the Government’s opposition to unsealing. The names of Individual-1 and Individual-2 should remain sealed to protect their legitimate privacy interests,’ see Gov’t Resp, dated Sept 5, 2025, at 3 (ECF No. 79); the Court denies NBC News’ applications to unseal the names of Individual-1 and Individual-2 and orders that the two names shall remain sealed,” wrote SDNY Judge Rochard Berman in a Tuesday ruling spiking NBC’s bid to unseal the names of two individuals who received wire transfers from dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein prior to his 2008 “sweetheart deal” with future Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.

The names were blacked out of a 2019 filing mentioning the two as potential co-conspirators in the case against Jeff that died with him in August of that year. AllRise’s Adam Klasfeld speculates that the two are actually both victims and co-conspirators because what Jeff ran was a pyramid scheme in which his victims were paid extra to recruit new victims into his and Ghislaine’s harem. Klasfeld points out that it was indeed a victim‘s lawyer or lawyers who had fought against this unsealing.

The upshot being that it is EXTREMELY likely that this mini-drama has, unlike so much else in the long Epstein saga, actually been resolved even if the exact names will remain sealed indefinitely.