Posts falsely conflate civil lawsuit with Ghislaine Maxwell criminal case
Associated PressCLAIM: Recently unsealed court documents show a list of defendants, including some celebrities, named as “co-conspirators” in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case. THE FACTS: As Maxwell prepares to face trial on charges she groomed underage victims to have unwanted sex with Epstein, her former boyfriend, social media users are circulating a monthsold list of names and companies, falsely claiming they are co-conspirators in Maxwell’s criminal case. The lawsuit also alleged that the defendants exploited the plaintiff’s “economic prowess and unique abilities to pick stocks, predict business/market trends and create very lucrative trade secrets.” U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton for the Southern District of New York dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that it did not have a legal or factual basis, and that the plaintiff, who did not appear to be an attorney, made claims on behalf of others, according to the dismissal order. Some social media users began circulating excerpts from the court documents, erroneously asserting that they were recently unsealed documents from Maxwell’s criminal case.
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