The identities of John Does were made public by a judge.
Powerful associates were not included in the list of victims.
The subject of intense media coverage was allowed to remain anonymous.
The names of several "John Does" who tried to keep their identities secret will be made public.
Despite being the subject of intense media coverage, one of them will remain anonymous.
The semi-retired federal judge overseeing the case said in a court hearing Friday that she would stay her own ruling to allow the person to appeal.
Preska said in the Friday hearing that the relationship between the two people has been a topic of media coverage. There is no reason for the documents to be redacted.
The man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing several of the girls. The man died in jail while waiting for his trial. There were connections between her and several powerful people, including former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and journalist Mike Wallace.
The now-dead pedophile financier, who also settled a lawsuit with Giuffre, has long sought to unseal material from the lawsuit in order to prove Giuffre's accusations against him.
The public has largely assumed that the 16 "John Does" who lodged objections to making their identities public were all friends of the two men.
Preska said that the public nature of the accusations made against the two people should make them come forward.
Emmy Taylor is one of the people who filed a lawsuit against a journalist. Sarah Ransome, who wrote a book about her experience and gave numerous media interviews, was the other. Preska said Friday that a third victim would have their identity sealed because of ongoing trauma.
Preska said that there were only marginal connections between the other people and the two men. The cousin of the Illinois governor is a hotel mogul. The witness in the deposition said they didn't know who Preska was.
Giuffre filed a defamation lawsuit against Maxwell in New York in 2015, accusing her of defaming her. Giuffre has sought to unseal thousands of pages of deposition transcripts and other documents filed in the case as it has enjoyed a long afterlife.
Friday's hearing ends the mystery of the "John Does."
She dropped her objection to keeping the names of certain "John Doe" parties secret after she was convicted of sex-trafficking. Some of the anonymous parties objected to their names being made public. In April, Preska ruled on whether to un seal the other eight people.
The names of Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva Dubin, as well as their butler Ronald Rizzo, were un-censored by her. Eva Dubin gave testimony at the trial about her friendship with Epstein in the 1980's and 90's.
The others were either irrelevant or barely relevant to the litigation.
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