Judge in Epstein Friend Lawsuit Postpones Thursday Hearing (1)

The judge overseeing a case by a woman who claims she was victimized by Jeffrey Epstein and then defamed by his friend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, postponed a court conference that had been scheduled for Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan was set to meet with lawyers in a case filed by Virginia Giuffre, a Floridian who claimed Epstein sexually abused her for two years starting in 2000, when she was 16, and that Maxwell participated. Giuffre sued Maxwell in 2015 claiming she was defamed when Maxwell, daughter of the late British publisher Robert Maxwell, publicly called her ...