Posted on 08/05/2025 4:34:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein ‘s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, wants to keep grand jury records secret in the sex trafficking case that sent her to prison, her lawyers said Tuesday as prosecutors continued urging a court to release some of those records in the criminal case-turned-political fireball.
Maxwell hasn’t seen the material herself, her attorneys said — the grand jury process is conducted behind closed doors. But she opposes unsealing what her lawyers described as potentially “hearsay-laden” transcripts of grand jury testimony, which was given in secret and without her lawyers there to challenge it.
“Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable and her due process rights remain,” attorneys David O. Markus and Melissa Madrigal wrote.
Prosecutors declined to comment.
Government attorneys have been trying to quell a clamor for transparency by seeking the transcripts’ release — though the government also says the public already knows much of what’s in the documents.
Most of the information “was made publicly available at trial or has otherwise been publicly reported through the public statements of victims and witnesses,” prosecutors wrote in court papers Monday. They noted that the disclosures excluded some victims’ and witnesses’ names.
Prosecutors had also said last week that some of what the grand jurors heard eventually came out at Maxwell’s 2021 trial and in various victims’ lawsuits. There were only two grand jury witnesses, both of them law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors made clear Monday that they’re seeking to unseal only the...
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Well, she’s in charge. So I guess that’s that. [/s]
I’m guessing the Grand Jury docs would place her in greater danger.
They already moved her to a minimum security prison just last week. I wonder when she - like Epstein - will commit suicide.
Sure let’s accommodate a convicted sex trafficker.
If a Trump is in them, they will never come out. Fact! I support Trump, yet if he has dirty laundry. It is what it is. It will come out slow as shit. It will come. We can’t have dirty politicians. No matter how loud they talk.
So you think Biden's puppetmasters wouldn't have released it when they were in charge if they contained anything incriminating Trump?
Seriously?
She’s in jail. What else do you want?
“We can’t have dirty politicians”. Enserio? Unless you have been living in a monastery under a vow of silence for the last 35 years, you surely realize that clean politicians are rare-pres Trump is one of the cleanest we’ve had in a long time. The dems and Rinos have been trying to find dirt on him to use since at least 2015-and there is no there there, as Bill Clinton would say...
Bill and Hillary are pure as the wind driven snow when it comes to Ghislaine and Jeffrey of course...sarc
When it comes to sex we all fall short in thoughts, words and deeds. Read the Bible “All have sinned” and that starts with me.
The legal boundaries of this case call for some sort of justice how far that justice should go or can go???
Blood! Hell, she’s in her 60s serving a 20 years sentence. She’ll likely die in prison. So I guess what they want is blood.
That is my question, too-I’ve decided these folks won’t be happy unless they see all the victims in the case embarrassed by public exposure of every salacious detail, and maybe a hanging or two-they are jonesin for dirt, and to hell with anyone else’s court-ordered right to privacy...
I agree-bread and circuses...
Is she in charge of the DOJ? Oh Ya - she’s in prison.
We can get leaks about the toothpaste Trump uses but nothing about Epstein or Maxwell.
I’m guessing that since she is the only one that can tell the story, her version of it, that she doesn’t want what ever was in front of the grand jury to be released. As long as she holds all the cards she has leverage.
That’s a trait that’s almost endemic among folks like them, who spend all day every day on the Internet. They’ve become warped.
We don’t care what she wants.
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