The court is considering making the 2017 confidentiality agreement with Gillienne Maxwell public • Meaning: Over 80 testimonies can be published • Who should be concerned?

• Maxwell (right) and Epstein (left)

  Photo: 

  Gettyimages - Archive

A federal judge is considering allowing confidentiality on the documents in the civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's Madame, Galein Maxwell who was accused of pimping young girls for the billionaire in 2015.

Judge Loretta Fresca will decide in a hearing to be held today (Thursday) whether to publish over 80 documents and testimonies that are under a vaccination agreement that Maxwell herself asked not to be published for fear they contain details that could harm many, including herself.

According to reports in the United States, they contain data from Epstein's private jet, testimony in a 2016 affidavit in which her lawyers said they were asked "invasive" questions about her sex life and Palm Beach police reports, where Epstein had a home.

The confidential documents were part of a civil lawsuit by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Joffrey, which ended in 2017 with a secret settlement in which the victim accused Maxwell of allowing Epstein to abuse her when she was a minor, a claim denied by Madame.

Last Tuesday, attorneys asked the New York District Judge to approve a restraining order that would prevent FBI investigators, prosecutors and attorneys for other victims from speaking publicly about the criminal case built against Maxwell outside the courtroom.

Their contention is that there is a high risk that the revelations "may adversely affect potential witnesses or other victims who are not parties to the trial who may be harmed by the publications."

Some of the documents include Maxwell's testimony from Epstein's trial from 2019 which was given the day before he was found dead in his cell at the Manhattan Detention Center.