The US Department of Justice’s request to publicly release material from the disgraced socialite’s sex trafficking trial has been granted by a district judge.
A New York judge has ordered the release of material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case.
Maxwell, a disgraced British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
In a ruling filed on Tuesday, New York Southern District Judge Paul A Engelmayer granted the US Department of Justice’s request to release grand jury transcripts and other material from the 2021 case publicly.
A Florida judge issued a similar order in Epstein’s case last week, granting the department’s request to release transcripts from an abandoned federal grand jury investigation into him in the 2000s.
A request to release records from Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case is still pending.
The news comes as the department has until mid-December to release thousands of documents linked to civil and criminal cases involving Epstein.
Donald Trump previously opposed the move, but changed his mind last month after US Congress overwhelmingly voted in favour.
