⁍ A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s last-ditch effort to keep a potentially damaging deposition from becoming public.

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⁍ The depositions came from a now-closed civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s accusers.

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⁍ Maxwell, 58, pleaded not guilty on July 14 to helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls in the 1990s.

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– British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been behind bars since July 2, when she was indicted on charges she helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse three underage girls. Now, she’s trying to keep two potentially damaging depositions from becoming public. On Wednesday, a judge in New York denied Maxwell’s last-ditch effort to keep the depositions sealed, Reuters reports. The depositions came from a now-closed civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has said Epstein kept her as a ‘sex slave’ with Maxwell’s assistance. Maxwell, 58, pleaded not guilty on July 14 to helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls in the 1990s, and committing perjury by denying her involvement under oath. Her lawyers have said the deposition included ‘intrusive’ questions about Maxwell’s sex life and could prove embarrassing. They accused Giuffre of leaking the deposition, and ‘in conjunction with the government, setting a ‘perjury trap’ for their client. But US District Judge Loretta Preska said a criminal probe into Epstein’s associates already ‘loomed large’ when Maxwell opposed unsealing the deposition in June, and her arrest did not overcome the presumption the public deserved access. ‘This is plowed ground,’ Preska wrote.