Ghislaine Maxwell, who still hasn’t killed herself yet and was reported to have child sex trafficking videos with politicians may have turned them over the authorities and now wants them marked ‘highly confidential’.
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Prosecutors who are putting Ghislaine Maxwell on trial for child sex trafficking may have incriminating ‘nude’ videos, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Documents filed on Monday in her New York criminal case say US Attorneys may have ‘Highly Confidential Information’, which includes ‘nude, partially-nude, or otherwise sexualized images, videos, or other depictions of individuals.’
Prosecutors and Maxwell’s lawyers are currently hammering out an agreement on how sensitive documents in the high-profile case should be handled before they hand over to each other the evidence they plan to use at trial.
The reference to videos appears in a proposed version of the agreement lodged by Maxwell’s lawyers.
The proposed order says any ‘Highly Confidential Information’ either side plans to use in the case remains sealed and can only be viewed behind closed doors with lawyers present.
‘Highly Confidential Information contains nude, partially-nude, or otherwise sexualized images, videos, or other depictions of individuals,’ the court documents said.
The wording of the legal filing raises the prospect that the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York could be sitting on explicit photos and videos for their explosive case against Maxwell, the alleged madam to late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell has always denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of sex crimes, and is pleading not guilty in her criminal case.
Both her attorneys and US prosecutors did not respond to a request for comment.
As well as hinting at video evidence, the documents filed on Monday in Maxwell’s criminal case sparked a legal spat, with prosecutors claiming Maxwell ambushed them by asking for a gag order on witnesses in her criminal trial.
Maxwell’s lawyers filed an affidavit in her child sex trafficking case, asking New York federal judge Alison Nathan to prevent prosecution witnesses from publishing information about the case online.
Prosecutors scrambled to file a letter to the judge in response, claiming that they had been negotiating with the alleged madam’s legal team ‘as recently as 6p.m. last night’ and were surprised by the gagging request.
The British socialite’s attorney, Christian Everdell, wrote to Judge Nathan asking her to keep discovery materials from being published.
‘The defense believes that potential government witnesses and their counsel should be subject to the same restrictions as the defense concerning appropriate use of the discovery materials – namely, if these individuals are given access to discovery materials during trial preparation, they may not use those materials for any purpose other than preparing for trial in the criminal case, and may not post those materials on the Internet,’ the affidavit said.