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A large amount of \u201cdamning\u201d new evidence against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his imprisoned accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell could soon come to light after a federal judge ordered a trove of case files to be unsealed.<\/p>\n

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Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, whose reportage is credited with catalyzing the disgraced financier\u2019s downfall, wrote on her Substack Tuesday about Manhattan Federal Court Judge Loretta Preska\u2019s decision to unseal the \u201cvoluminous\u201d documents.<\/p>\n

The documents stem from a 2015 court case in which Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, sued Maxwell for defamation after she accused her of fabricating sex-trafficking allegations against Epstein and others, including former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n

Brown wrote she and The Herald fought a nearly decade-long court battle to have the documents released, arguing that they weren\u2019t properly sealed. The case was settled in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudicial records by law are supposed to be open to the public. In this case, the former judge (Robert Sweet, now deceased) issued a blanket sealing on all the documents because they contained \u201csensitive\u201d and \u201cprivate\u201d information,\u201d Brown wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cSweet placed a protective order on massive amounts of material, including hearings and judicial decisions made in the case \u2014 and voluminous evidence that Virginia presented to show that Epstein and Maxwell were operating an underage sex trafficking operation,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is not the way sealing is supposed to happen, however. Each document that the lawyers want sealed has to be examined, and those requesting it be sealed must provide legal justification to the judge for doing so. This wasn\u2019t done in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maxwell, 64, last week attempted to stall the release of the materials but was smacked down by Judge Preska, who said the \u201cEpstein Files Transparency Act superseded any earlier grand jury arguments that Maxwell was using to keep the records from the public,\u201d Brown wrote in the Substack post featured by Mediaite.<\/p>\n

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term after she was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

Epstein killed himself in his jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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