Judge Unseals Giuffre-Maxwell Files After Eight Years

Brown called the ruling a "victory for transparency," according to Raw Story, and said she had been told the file contains further evidence against Epstein, Maxwell and their accomplices.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that "damning" new evidence against Epstein and Maxwell could soon come to light as a result; Newsmax repeated that report. That characterization comes from those reports and from what Brown says she was told about the contents — not from any court finding about what the documents show.

Brown's own objection was procedural. "Judicial records by law are supposed to be open to the public," she wrote. "In this case, the former judge (Robert Sweet, now deceased) issued a blanket sealing on all the documents because they contained 'sensitive' and 'private' information."

She added that Sweet's protective order covered "massive amounts of material, including hearings and judicial decisions made in the case — and voluminous evidence that Virginia presented to show that Epstein and Maxwell were operating an underage sex trafficking operation." Each sealing request, she wrote, was supposed to be examined individually with a legal justification: "This wasn't done in this case."