On Tuesday, a federal judge in New York ordered the release on January 1 of hundreds of documents containing the names of people linked in various ways to the late financier. Jeffrey Epsteindefendant in a child sex trafficking case that remained sealed for years.

Judge Loretta Preska of the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan: set this date to allow time to submit objections to everyone who opposes the publication of their documents.

However, the judge in his decision establishes that all those people who gave interviews to the media should not remain private.

The documents will be made public as part of an agreement, the terms of which are unknown. civil lawsuit filed in 2015 by Virginia Giuffrewho claims to have been sexually abused by Epstein with the help of his former lover, British woman Ghislaine Maxwell.

The list is estimated to include more than 150 names, although some will remain sealed either because they are not associated with Epstein or Maxwell, or because she is an alleged victim of sexual abuse and has not spoken publicly, maintaining her privacy, the judge noted in her ruling.

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Giuffre sues Maxwell for libel after calling her a “liar” when she claimed the businessman sexually exploited her when she was a teenager with the help of the British public, and the case was dropped after a private settlement in 2017.

Giuffre, who is now a mother of three and lives in Australia, also said she was forced into sexual relations in London and New York. with Prince Andrew of Englandwhich he denied, which he sued, but they reached a financial agreement before the trial began in New York.

Epstein hanged himself in 2019 at a federal prison in New York. where he was awaiting trial on charges of running a sex trafficking ring of minors, and Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for providing minors for sexual purposes to his former lover and ex-partner. (EFE)