JEFFREY Epstein's alleged "pimp" Ghislaine Maxwell has lost her legal battle to keep "highly intrusive" court documents under wraps.
Fresh details of Maxwell’s sordid sex life are included in the files, which were originally filed as part of a lawsuit against her by Epstein victim Virginia Roberts.
Miss Roberts sued Maxwell in 2015 after the Brit called her a liar.
The defamation case was settled in 2017, but following her arrest in July there have been applications to make public the documents regarding her relationship with the late financier and convicted sex offender.
In August Maxwell, 58, filed eleventh-hour paperwork in New York which blocked the release of the files.
She argued they could destroy her ability to defend herself against criminal charges she enabled Epstein's sexual abuse of girls, which she has denied.
But the US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan today rejected Maxwell's effort to block the civil lawsuit documents.
They are thought to contain "nude, partially-nude, or otherwise sexualised images, videos, or other depictions of individuals".
It was ruled that US District Judge Loretta Preska back in August had correctly concluded the public had a right to access over 80 documents from a 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell by Roberts, now Giuffre.
Giuffre had accused Epstein of having kept her as a “sex slave” and forcing her to have sex with Prince Andrew with Maxwell’s help — which the Brit socialite has dismissed.
The Duke of York strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s.
She has also pleaded not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement in the deposition.
Maxwell was arrested on July 2 at a New Hampshire home where prosecutors said she was hiding out.
She has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls from 1994 to 1997, and committing perjury by denying her involvement under oath.
She was denied bail and is being held in a Brooklyn jail after the judge overseeing her criminal case called her a flight risk.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and found dead in a jail cell the following month in what was ruled to be a suicide.