Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret email linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s household but refused to turn over messages from it, recently unsealed court documents revealed.
The documents were used as evidence as part of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s civil claim against Maxwell – a case that was settled in 2017.
Maxwell had claimed that her Mindspring email address was a spam account that she used when signing up for marketing correspondence with stores.
But Meredith Schultz, an attorney for Giuffre, said evidence showed Maxwell “used it for her Tumblr account,” a social media website where “22 percent of the content is pornographic.”
Epstein used the now-defunct Mindspring messaging network to communicate with his friends and the staff at his multiple homes.
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, had a secret MindSpring email account linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s household but refused to turn over messages from it, newly unsealed court documents reveal
Maxwell, pictured on Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St James Island in 2006, had claimed her Mindspring email address was a spam account she used when signing up for marketing correspondence with stores.
Epstein used the now-defunct Mindspring messaging network to communicate with his friends and the staff at his multiple homes. Maxwell is pictured on Epstein’s Little St. James Island in 2006
The nature of Maxwell’s Mindspring account was discussed during a previously sealed court hearing, where Schultz alleged that the British socialite had failed to turn over certain email data.
According to the transcript, Maxwell claimed the email address was a “spam account she uses to register with stores.”
But Schultz claimed that “publicly available information” showed Maxwell used the account to sign up for certain content-sharing websites.
“We also found evidence that she used it for her Tumblr account,” the lawyer told the hearing in November 2016.
‘This is a social media website that also has an inbox and messaging service, with more than 22 percent of the content on this social website being pornographic and more than 16 percent of the accounts created there containing exclusively pornographic material.’
Schultz also alleged that Maxwell used the account to sign up for LinkedIn and Dropbox accounts. MailOnline could not independently verify Schultz’s claim.
The transcript of the hearing was released Monday evening to comply with U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska’s order to unseat thousands of documents involved in the 2015 lawsuit between Giuffre and Maxwell.
The first exhibit released Monday night claims that Maxwell and everyone who worked for Epstein used a secret server to communicate.
In a nearly unsealed court transcript (pictured), Meredith Schultz, an attorney for Giuffre, said evidence showed Maxwell “used it for her Tumblr account.”
The server – called MindSpring – was used by housekeeping staff to communicate about daily tasks and events.
One employee complained about how “ridiculous” it became, explaining that Epstein would demand a “coffee” or “orange juice” through the server and multiple employees if they were all in the same house.
Another newly uploaded piece of evidence is a previously sealed transcript of a hearing on whether Epstein should be forced to testify.
Both Maxwell and Giuffre wanted him to do so, but he refused, repeatedly saying he did not want to answer the questions for fear of criminal charges.
All the filings come from a 2015 defamation case that Giuffre filed against Maxwell.
At the time, Giuffre had gone public with her claims against Prince Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein. She said she was sexually trafficked to the royal family by Maxwell and Epstein, who she alleged abused numerous other girls in similar ways.
Maxwell, Epstein and Prince Andrew denied her allegations.
Giuffre sued Maxwell for publicly labeling her a liar. The case was settled in 2017 — two years before Epstein was indicted and later died by suicide — and before Maxwell’s arrest.
Giuffre sued Maxwell, pictured with Epstein, for publicly labeling her a liar. The case was settled in 2017 – two years before Epstein was indicted and later died by suicide – and before Maxwell’s arrest
Giuffre, pictured with the Duke of York and Maxwell, had made her claims against Prince Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein public. She said she was sexually trafficked to the royal family by Maxwell and Epstein, who she alleged abused numerous other girls in similar ways. Maxwell, Epstein and Prince Andrew denied her allegations
They have now become public after repeated requests from the media and some of those involved in the scandal who called for court transparency.
Judge Preska ruled last month in favor of the media that it is in the public interest that the names of Epstein’s associates, friends and victims are no longer anonymized.
In 2019, approximately 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
The court released seventeen pieces of evidence on Monday – the latest in a stream of documents made public over the past week. The final batch is expected to be released later today, sources familiar with the rollout said Business insider.