Ghislaine Maxwell ends fight to keep eight 'John Does' secret, court to decide whether names should
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Ghislaine Maxwell ends fight to keep eight 'John Does' secret, court to decide whether names should be unsealed
By Laura Ly, CNN Updated 12:26 PM ET, Mon January 17, 2022
(CNN)Ghislaine Maxwell will no longer fight to keep the names of eight 'John Does' secret and will leave it to the court to decide whether the names should be unsealed, according to a letter dated January 12.
The documents are part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit against Maxwell brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and that Maxwell aided in the abuse.
Maxwell, 60, faces up to 65 years in prison after she was found guilty last month in a New York federal court on five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. The charges were related to her role in Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004.
Giuffre's attorney had previously filed a brief on Wednesday, arguing for the names to be revealed.
"After careful review of the detailed objections submitted by Non-Party Does 17, 53, 54, 55, 73, 93 and 151, counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell writes to inform the Court that she does not wish to further address those objections," Maxwell attorney Laura Menninger wrote. "Each of the listed Does has counsel who have ably asserted their own respective privacy rights. Ms. Maxwell therefore leaves it to this Court to conduct the appropriate review."........................
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If there is admissable evidence that they committed crimes they would be prosecuted. 6 of the 8 don't want their names released for privacy/embarrassment reasons.
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... I've seen this story several times, here on DU and elsewhere. I still don't understand the story. Why does she have the power to release/not release the names? Why hasn't she given up the names for a reduced sentence? Why aren't the 8 John Does being charged? My guess is that there isn't much there... the John Does may not be as big a deal as the Media implies... but, I don't know...
