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Judge Sweets Order Denying Maxwell's Request For Summary Judgement Against Virginia (Part 4)

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In his ruling dated April 27, 2017, Judge Sweet denied Maxwell’s motion for summary judgment, concluding that the case could not be dismissed before trial because there were triable issues of material fact—meaning that reasonable jurors could differ on key factual elements required to resolve the defamation claims. Additionally, he held that the pre‑litigation privilege Maxwell invoked (a legal shield often applied to internal or preliminary communications before a lawsuit is filed) did not apply to bar the claim. Consequently, the motion could not succeed as a matter of law. Judge Sweet also directed the parties to submit a proposed redacted version of the opinion consistent with the protective order or to notify the court if no redactions were necessary, emphasizing the sensitive nature of the materials involved

This decision ensured that Maxwell’s defamation case would proceed, allowing for full adjudication of disputable facts rather than prematurely ending the litigation. Moreover, although the summary judgment denial was itself sealed under protective orders—primarily due to concerns about privacy and confidentiality—the Second Circuit later determined that such judicial records should generally be accessible to the public, underscoring the importance of transparency in decisions impacting public interest; the appellate court directed review and unsealing of summary judgment materials following a careful balance of privacy interests.


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Judge Sweets Order Denying Maxwell's Request For Summary Judgement Against Virginia (Part 4)

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Roberts and Figueroa hosted a party with a number of guests. During the party, according to Roberts, someone entered Roberts' room and stole $500 from her shirt pocket. Roberts contacted the police. She met and spoke with police officers regarding the incident and filed a report. She did not disclose to the officer that she was a sex slave, a second time in June 2002, Roberts contacted the police to report that her former landlord had left her belongings by the roadside and had litter mattress on fire. Again, Roberts met and spoke with law enforcement officers, but did not complain that she was the victim of any sexual trafficking or abuse or that she was then being held as a sex slave. Roberts has objected to the statement as misleading and irrelevant and further noted that she was fearful of Maxwell and Epstein, and accordingly, she would not have reported her abusers and noted that she knew that Epstein had control over the Palm Beach police.

42. From August 2001 until September 2002, Epstein and Maxwell were almost entirely absent from Florida, on documented travel unaccompanied by Roberts. Flight logs maintained by Dave Rogers, Epstein's private pilot, evidence the substantial number of trips away from Florida that Epstein and Maxwell took, unaccompanied by Roberts between August 2001 and September 2002. Rogers maintained a log of all the flights on which Epstein and Maxwell traveled with him, Epstein additionally traveled with another pilot who did not keep such logs and also occasionally traveled via commercial flights. For substantially all the 13 months of the 22-month period from November 2000 to September 2002, Epstein was traveling outside of Florida unaccompanied by Roberts. During this same time period, Roberts was employed at various jobs enrolled in school and living with her boyfriend. Roberts has disputed this statement and noted that the flight logs produced in this matter

provide substantive evidence of Roberts' travel while in the control of Maxwell and Epstein, but are incomplete as Roberts also was flown by Maxwell on commercial flights. The flight logs and pilot testimony clearly prove that Roberts was flying domestic and internationally with Epstein at least 32 times between December 11th, 2000 to July 28th, 2001 and June 21st, 2000 to August 21st, 2002. Maxwell has acknowledged the flight logs are incomplete and that there were several pilots and co-pilots that flew Epstein in Maxwell, E.G. Rogers, Lawrence Larry Vesosky, Bill Hammond, Pete Rathkeb, Gary Roxberg, and Bill Murphy in multiple aircrafts and that only Rogers produced flight records. Roberts states that Maxwell has also acknowledged that many of the girls recruited by Maxwell routinely traveled on commercial flights for the purposes of providing massages to Epstein or, guess, at Epstein's New York, New Mexico or US Virgin Islands home.

Roberts has further noted that her passport application, travel records, and witness testimony demonstrate flight logs are incomplete that she also flew commercially while she worked for Maxwell and Epstein. Her passport application, for example, listed travel plans to London and subsequent flight logs listed Roberts traveling to London with Maxwell, Epstein, and others. Roberts decided the evidence she contends establishes her travel with Epstein and Maxwell, including massage training in Thailand, 43. Roberts and Figueroa shared a 93 white Pontiac in 2002 and 2001. Roberts freely traveled around the Palm Beach area in that vehicle. In August 2002, Roberts acquired a Dodge Dakota pickup truck from her father, Figueroa used that vehicle in a series of crimes before and after Roberts left for Thailand. Roberts has denied the statement and has noted that she purchased a car from the $10,000 payment she received from Epstein after she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in London at Maxwell's home, 44.

Roberts held a number of jobs in 2001 and 2002. During 2001 and 2002, Roberts was gainfully employed at several jobs. She worked as a waitress at Manino's restaurant at TGIF Friday's restaurant and at Roadhouse Grill. She was also employed at the Courtyard Animal Hospital. Roberts has denied the statement and noted that in 2001 and 2002, she attempted to go back to school to earn her GED and tried unsuccessfully to hold down waitressing jobs. She earned $212 as a waitress, working briefly at Manino's restaurant and in 2002, earned $403.64, working at the TGIF Friday's restaurant for a short time period. She earned about $1,247.90 at Roadhouse Grill until about March 2002 and at the Courtyard Animal Hospital. She received payroll checks for weeks ending April 22, 2002 to June 4, 2002, earning a total of $1,561.75.

Not long after she lost her job at the Courtyard Animal Hospital, she was traveling with Maxwell to the Bahamas, Santa Fe, and New York. 45. Roberts traveled to Thailand in September 2002 to receive formal training as a masseuse. Figueroa drove her to the airport and while there she initially contacted Figueroa frequently, incurring a phone bill of $4,000. She then met the man who would go on to become her husband while in Thailand and decided to marry him. She thereafter seized all contact with Figueroa from October 2002 until two days before Figueroa's deposition in this matter in May of 2016. Roberts admitted traveling to Thailand to receive massage training in September 2002, but noted that she was given an assignment from Maxwell and Epstein that she had to recruit another underage girl from Thailand and bring that young girl back to Epstein. Roberts stated that she was expected to return to Epstein and Maxwell upon completion of her massage training and assignment, and that instead she escaped to Australia where she remained in hiding from Maxwell and Epstein for several years.

46. Detective Joseph Ricari investigated Epstein and fell to uncover any evidence that Maxwell was involved in sexual abuse of minors, sexual trafficking, or production or possession of child pornography. Ricari served as the lead detective from the Palm Beach Police Department, charged with investigating Epstein. That investigation commenced in 2005. Ricari worked only on the Epstein case for an entire year. He reviewed previous officers' reports and interviews, conducted numerous interviews of witnesses and alleged victims himself, reviewed surveillance footage of the Epstein home, participated in and had knowledge of the search warrant executed on the Epstein home and testified regarding the case before the Florida State Grand Jury against Epstein. What's up, baby? It's Bretsky, and I'm here to tell you that SpinQuest.com is giving out free, sweet coins. All you got to do is purchase a $10 coin pack, and guess what? They're going to give you the coins from a $30 coin pack.

That lets you play all your favorite games like Blackjack, Wanted Dead or Wild, and we're talking real cash prizes, baby. SpinQuest.com SpinQuest is a free to please social casino, Boydwey Prohibited visits SpinQuest.com for more details. Ricari's investigation revealed that not one of the alleged Epstein victims ever mentioned Maxwell's name, and she was never considered a suspect by the government. None of Epstein's alleged victims said that they had seen Maxwell at Epstein's home, nor said that they had been recruited by her, nor paid any money buyer. Nor told what to wear or had an actpire. Indeed, none of Epstein's alleged victims ever reported to the government, they had met or spoke into Maxwell. Maxwell was not seen coming or going from the house, during the law enforcement surveillance of Epstein's home, the arrest warrant did not mention Maxwell, and her name was never mentioned before the Grand Jury. No property belonging to Maxwell, including sex toys, or child pornography, was seized from Epstein's home during the execution of the search warrant.

Ricari, one asked to describe everything that you believe you know about Glan Maxwell's sexual trafficking conduct, replied, I don't. He confirmed he has no knowledge about Maxwell, sexually trafficking anybody. Ricari also has no knowledge of Robert's conduct that is subject to this lawsuit. Roberts has denied the statement, and noted that Ricari wanted to speak to Maxwell, but she did not return his calls, and he concluded that Maxwell's role was to procure girls for Epstein. Roberts further noted that in the execution of the search warrant, stationary was found in the home, bearing Maxwell's name, and notes were written by House staff to Maxwell and message beds uncovered in trash pools, revealing numerous calls left at the house for Maxwell, indicating she was staying in the house during the days when Epstein was engaging in illegal sex acts with minors. Roberts further noted that a walk through video, that was taken during the execution of the search warrant, revealed photos of topless females at the home, including a photograph of Maxwell naked hanging in the home.

Alfredo Rodriguez, the House butler from 2004 through 2005, a time period that included daily sexual abuse of underage females, testified that Maxwell kept a list of the local girls who were giving massages at her desk, and that Maxwell kept nude photos of girls on her kids. Roberts states that Ricari testified that when the search warrant was executed, the House had been sanitized, and the computers removed from the home. Roberts states that the co-conspirator, who maintained direct contact with many underage victims was Kellen, whose sole responsibility was to schedule underage girls to visit Epstein for sex and reported directly to Maxwell. Figueroa testified that Maxwell personally requested that he find and bring girls to Epstein for sex once Roberts had escaped, and that when he brought the girls Maxwell interacted with them, that Maxwell was the boss, and that she knew everything that was going on. No nude photograph of Roberts was displayed in Epstein's home. Epstein's housekeeper, Lessi, never saw any photographs of Virginia Roberts in Epstein's home.

Ricari entered Epstein's home in 2002 to install security cameras to catch a thief and did not observe any child pornography within the home, including on Epstein's desk in his office. Roberts has denied this statement, and noted that Maxwell had pornography on her computer, that there was a collage of nude photos in Epstein's closet, that the collage was taken into evidence by Ricari, who testified to that fact in his deposition, that Rizzo, a visitor to the home on numerous occasions, was reprimanded by Maxwell for looking at the nude photos, and that the search warrant revealed photographs of nudity displayed, including photographs of Maxwell herself in the nude. Showberg testified that Maxwell bought her a camera for the specific purpose of her taking nude photos of herself, and Roberts is testified that there was a nude photograph of her at the house. 48. Roberts drafted a journal describing individuals to whom claims she was sexually trafficked as well as her memories and thoughts about her experiences with Epstein.

In 2013, she and her husband created a bonfire in her backyard in Florida and burned the journal together with other documents in her possession. Roberts also kept a dream journal regarding her thoughts and memories that she possessed in January 2016. To date Roberts cannot locate the dream journal. 49. Roberts publicly peddled a story beginning in 2011. Roberts granted journalist Churcher extensive interviews that resulted in seven widely distributed articles from March 2011 through January 2015. Churcher regularly communicated with Roberts and her attorneys or other agents from early 2011 to the present day. Roberts received approximately $160,000 for her stories and pictures that were published by many news organizations. Roberts has denied this statement in part and admitted it in part noting that in 2011 Roberts was still in hiding from Epstein and Maxwell in Australia and not looking to sell anything or even speak with anyone about what had happened to her, Churcher located Roberts and impressed the importance of Roberts standing up to those who had harmed her and speaking with federal authorities.

Roberts did so in 2011 bringing the abuse of Maxwell and Epstein to public light to prevent their continued abuse of others. Roberts agreed to be interviewed by Churcher and was compensated for sharing her story which came at the heavy price of being publicly scrutinized. Alright folks, we're going to wrap up this episode here and in the next episode we'll pick up where we left off. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. Forget everything you had planned for this weekend because you are sitting on your couch and winning from the comfort of your own home. I'm here with SpinQuest where you could play hundreds of slot games, all of the table games you love, and you could even win real cash prizes. New users, $30 coin packs are on sale for 10 at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free to play social casino, voidware prohibited, visit SpinQuest.com for more details.

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