US judge clears release of Ghislaine Maxwell investigation files — potentially thousands of new Epstein documents due within 10 days
The US Justice Department has been granted permission to publicly release investigative materials from the sex-trafficking case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, following a ruling on Tuesday by federal judge Paul A Engelmayer.
The decision allows previously sealed grand jury transcripts, exhibits and other evidence to be made public, possibly hundreds or thousands of documents, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires Epstein-related records to be released in searchable form by 19 December.
Engelmayer is the second judge to approve the request, after a Florida judge last week authorised the release of transcripts from an abandoned grand jury probe into Epstein from the 2000s. A separate request to unseal records from Epstein’s 2019 federal case remains pending.
The filings are expected to include 18 categories of evidence — from search warrants and financial records to survivor interviews, device data and materials from earlier Florida investigations. Survivors’ identities will be redacted before publication.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on sex-trafficking charges and died by suicide in jail weeks later. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and is serving a 20-year sentence, currently held at a prison camp in Texas.
The release could add to the tens of thousands of pages already disclosed through lawsuits, FOIA requests and prior court rulings, including grand jury records tied to Epstein’s 2006 investigation and the controversial 2008 plea deal that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution.
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