Maxwell’s sex life ‘too impure to be revealed to the public’

DETAILS of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex life are too ‘sensational and impure’ for public consumption, a judge has ruled.

Judge Alison Nathan said the release of documents in which the socialite talks about her private life would only serve to satisfy a ‘craving’ among the public for explicit material so should stay sealed.

The ruling came in the criminal case in New York against the 59-year-old Briton for allegedly recruiting underage girls for the late billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to abuse. It related to transcripts of interviews she gave in a separate civil case brought by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Mrs Giuffre alleges that Maxwell, pictured, recruited her to work for Epstein when she was 16 before she was groomed to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17, allegations he has always emphatically denied.

The US government handed the interview to prosecutors last month but Maxwell is fighting to keep sections under wraps.

Siding with her, Judge Nathan ordered extra redactions to five pages of the transcript. The judge said: ‘Those portions of the transcript, which were redacted in the civil matter, concern privacy interests and their disclosure would merely serve to cater to a craving for that which is sensational and impure. The court thus concludes that such redactions are justified’.

The judge added that the need to protect the safety and privacy of people mentioned outweighed the ‘presumption of access’ to the documents.

But the judge rejected some objections Maxwell had to the prosecutor’s proposed redactions that related to ‘private family affairs of a third party’.

Maxwell, the daughter of late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, is accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 1997. She is also accused of perjuring herself in the civil lawsuit brought by Mrs Giuffre. Maxwell, who is being held in a New York detention centre, denies all the allegations.