Additional documents to be released in coming days

Dozens of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were previously sealed were made public late Wednesday, and additional documents are expected in the coming days.

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered 40 documents to be released on Wednesday, with around 250 total documents expected to be unsealed in the coming days. The initial batch largely mentioned figures whose names were already known, including high-profile friends of Epstein’s and his victims, who have already revealed themselves publicly.

Preska initially evaluated the documents to be unsealed in December, saying then that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.

The judge has not set a target for when all of the documents should be made public, but more are within the next few days.

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The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims who is among dozens of women who sued him for abuse.

Their contents concern Epstein, who was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with sex trafficking in 2019. He killed himself in a jail cell while awaiting trial.

They also concern Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of helping recruit his underage victims. She is serving a 20-year prison term.