New York judge Loretta Preska shot down Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest attempt to delay unsealing revealing documents that may contain ‘critical new information’ that would impact her criminal sex trafficking case and her civil defamation case.
Maxwell’s legal team would not go into detail about what they discovered in the documents but would only say that it was subject to a court protective order.
These requests came just before her team made complaints about Maxwell’s conditions in the Brooklyn jail where she is being kept. She has recently been taken off of suicide watch but is still submitted to several searches a day and stays under constant supervision of the guards.
Her lawyers demand the searches and surveillance be put to a stop and requested Maxwell be taken out of solitary confinement and put into the general population with other prisoners. Her team argues that the only reason she is being subjected to the ‘onerous’ conditions is because of her relationship with former boyfriend Jeffery Epstein.
Maxwell claims to have ‘never been suicidal and was never diagnosed as exhibiting risk factors for suicide,’ but is still being forced to wear special clothing and woken up several times throughout the night.
Her lawyer Chris Everdell said, “Ms. Maxwell is being treated worse than other similarly situated pretrial detainees, which significantly impacts her ability to prepare a defense.” In a letter to the judge, Everdell wrote that Maxwell is forced to submit to body scans and is even monitored while calling her attorneys.
Her attornies have made several requests to the judge such as more computer time and Maxwell be given the names of the three anonymous women who came forward about being groomed and abused by Maxwell.
