While most powerful men would do anything to keep their names out of court papers related to Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell, lawyer Alan Dershowitz is asking a federal judge to unredact his name in a just-unsealed 418-page deposition by Maxwell from 2016.
Maxwell’s deposition stems from a defamation suit against her by alleged Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre. The suit reportedly was settled in 2017, but the documents have been made public as Maxwell faces 35 years in prison for allegedly being in cahoots with Epstein. She has pleaded not guilty
Dershowitz is separately suing Giuffre for defamation after she accused him of having sex with her when she was Epstein’s sex slave. Giuffre sued him for defamation first when he denied the claims.
But Dershowitz told Page Six why he wants his name public: “I have fought to have all material in the case unsealed, and all names unredacted, so that Giuffre’s outlandish stories … can be exposed for what they are: false. I have nothing to hide, whereas Giuffre does, as the emails and book manuscript that she tried to hide prove that she never met me. Everything in this case should be unsealed.”
On Thursday, Dershowitz’s lawyers, Imran Ansari and Arthur Aidala, wrote US District Judge Loretta Preska in Maxwell’s case that Dershowitz’s name “appears multiple times within the transcript, but has been subject to redaction.” Dershowitz, “however, desires just the opposite — and requests that his name be fully displayed in the transcript where it appears.”
Two days earlier, Preska had ordered the Maxwell deposition unsealed with “minimal redactions” to block any personal, identifiable information that reveals the names of non-parties or their families in the court documents.
Some outlets have been trying to “crack” the redactions and guess the names, but Dershowitz wants his known.
Giuffre’s lawyer did not comment.