Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret email linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s household but refused to turn over messages from it, newly unsealed court documents revealed.
The documents were used as evidence as part of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s civil claim against Maxwell – a case that was settled in 2017.
Maxwell had claimed her Mindspring email address was a spam account that she used when signing up for marketing correspondence at retail stores.
But Meredith Schultz, an attorney for Giuffre, said evidence revealed Maxwell ‘used it for her Tumblr account’, a social media website where ’22 percent of the content is pornographic’.
Epstein used the now-defunct Mindspring messaging network to communicate with his friends and the staff across his multiple homes.
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, had a secret MindSpring email account linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s household but refused to turn over messages from it, newly unsealed court documents revealed
Maxwell, pictured on Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St James Island in 2006, had claimed her Mindspring email address was a spam account that she used when signing up for marketing correspondence at retail stores
Epstein used the now-defunct Mindspring messaging network to communicate with his friends and the staff across his multiple homes. Maxwell is pictured on Epstein’s Little St. James Island in 2006
The nature of Maxwell’s Mindspring account was discussed during a previously sealed court hearing where Schultz alleged that the British socialite had failed to turn over certain email records.
According to the transcript, Maxwell alleged the email address was a ‘spam account that she uses to register at retail stores’.
But Schultz claimed ‘publicly available information’ showed that Maxwell used the account to sign up for certain content sharing websites.
‘We also found evidence that she used it for her Tumblr account,’ the attorney told the November 2016 hearing.
‘That is a social media website that also has inbox and messaging where over 22 percent of the content on this social website is pornographic and over 16 percent of the accounts created therein contain exclusively pornographic material.’
Schultz also alleged that Maxwell used the account to sign up for LinkedIn and Dropbox accounts. was not able to independently verify Schultz’s claim.
The hearing transcript was released Monday night to comply with US District Judge Loretta Preska’s ruling to unseal thousands of documents involved in the 2015 suit between Giuffre and Maxwell.
The first exhibit released on Monday night claims Maxwell and everyone who worked for Epstein used a secret server to communicate.
In an nearly unsealed court transcript (pictured), Meredith Schultz, an attorney for Giuffre, said evidence revealed Maxwell ‘used it for her Tumblr account’
The server – called MindSpring – was used by household staff to communicate about daily tasks and events.
One employee complained about how ‘ridiculous’ it became, explaining that Epstein would demand a ‘coffee’ or ‘orange juice’ through the server and multiple employees when they were all in the same house.
Another newly-uploaded exhibit is a previously sealed transcript from a hearing regarding whether Epstein should be forced to give testimony.
Both Maxwell and Giuffre wanted him to – but he declined, repeatedly saying that he would not answer questions for fear of criminal prosecution.
All of the filings come from a 2015 defamation lawsuit that Giuffre filed against Maxwell.
At the time, Giuffre had gone public with her claims against Prince Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein. She said she’d been sexually trafficked to the royal by Maxwell and Epstein, who she claimed abused countless other girls in similar ways.
Maxwell, Epstein and Prince Andrew denied her allegations.
Giuffre sued Maxwell for publicly labeling her a liar. The case was settled in 2017 – two years before Epstein was charged and later died by suicide – and before Maxwell’s arrest.
Giuffre sued Maxwell, pictured with Epstein, for publicly labeling her a liar. The case was settled in 2017 – two years before Epstein was charged and later died by suicide – and before Maxwell’s arrest
Giuffre, pictured with the Duke of York and Maxwell, had gone public with her claims against Prince Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein. She said she’d been sexually trafficked to the royal by Maxwell and Epstein, who she claimed abused countless other girls in similar ways. Maxwell, Epstein and Prince Andrew denied her allegations
They have become public now after repeated requests from the media and some of those caught up in the scandal, who pleaded for transparency from the court.
Judge Preska last month ruled in favor of the media that it was in the public interest for the names of associates, friends and victims of Epstein to no longer be anonymized.
About 2,000 pages were unsealed by a court in 2019. Additional documents were released in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
The court unsealed 17 exhibits on Monday – the latest in the stream of papers to have been made public over the last week. The final batch is expected to be published later today, sources familiar with the rollout told Business Insider.