Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers try to block release of ‘sex trafficking’ deposition

British socialite argues that unsealing the documents would prevent her right to fair trial

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Ghislaine Maxwell has launched a legal bid to prevent the release of a deposition containing “testimony about intimate matters” from a previous case relating to her relationship with late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

During a civil lawsuit in 2016, Epstein’s key accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claimed that Maxwell trafficked her as a teenager to become a sex slave for the billionaire financier. Guiffre also alleged that Maxwell and Epstein pressured her to have sex with other wealthy and powerful men, including Prince Andrew.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.