Jeffrey Epstein's Socialite Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Asks Court to Keep Files Sealed
- An appeals court has ordered 2,000 pages to be made public
- Maxwell says that press interest is hampering ‘due process’
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A British socialite who has long denied she was involved with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual abuse of underage girls told a federal appeals court that the media’s “furious feeding frenzy” justified keeping documents from a defamation suit by an alleged victim secret.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, on Wednesday asked for a rehearing by a full panel of the appeals court in Manhattan of her request to keep the filings, which run about 2,000 pages, from the 2015 case sealed.