New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- NEW YORK - A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the release of Epstein victim files Tuesday, clearing thousands of pages of records from Virginia Giuffre's decade-old civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell and rejecting Maxwell's final arguments invoking grand jury secrecy and privacy rights.

Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed with broad congressional support after years of advocacy from trafficking survivors, expressly supersedes the earlier judicial protections Maxwell had invoked to keep the records sealed.

The decision cleared a specific category of civil discovery materials that Maxwell had argued fel...