- A judge ruled to unseal documents in a Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit related to Glenn and Eva Dubin.
- Eva Dubin, an ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, has denied suggestions that she participated in group sex.
- The Dubins didn't oppose the unsealing of most of the documents.
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Documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's friends Glenn and Eva Dubin will be released in a lawsuit filed against Ghislaine Maxwell.
Eva Andersson Dubin — a physician, former model, and former Miss Sweden — dated Epstein on and off between 1983 and 1991. She and her husband, billionaire Glenn Dubin, remained friends with Epstein and their children saw the convicted pedophile and accused sex trafficker as an uncle figure.
The Dubins were among a group of non-parties whose relationships with Maxwell or Epstein came up in a lawsuit that Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed against Epstein.
Eight of the people — including the Dubins — objected at least some of the documents that name them from being made public.
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On Tuesday, US District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan ruled that documents involving the Dubins and their former house manager Rinaldo Rizzo will be released.
The Dubins didn't oppose the release of the documents, other than one part of the transcript that Preska said had a typographical error. That document will remain sealed, Preska said.
This lawsuit was settled in 2017, but Giuffre — who accused Epstein and Maxwell of sex trafficking her — had fought for years to have material from it unsealed. Maxwell initially opposed the unsealing, but now takes no stance. The Miami Herald is also among the parties fighting for the documents to be made public.
Eva Andersson Dubin denied group sex with Maxwell accuser
Andersson Dubin testified in the related criminal trial against Maxwell in December, during which she denied suggestions that she had participated in group sex with a woman who alleged that Maxwell facilitated orgies when the accuser was 14.
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The accuser, who was identified as "Jane", said women named Eva, Michelle, Kelly, and Sophie sometimes participated in those orgies, which she said happened at Epstein's Palm Beach, Florida, home in the 1990s. Jane didn't reveal the last names of those women in her testimony.
At the trial, Andersson Dubin denied having ever met Jane before and said she "absolutely" never participated in group sex with Jane. She said Eva is a common name in Northern Europe.
Maxwell was ultimately convicted of sex trafficking and faces up to 65 years in prison.
Other documents remain under seal
The documents related to the Dubins and Rizzo are to be unsealed in the next two weeks, Preska ruled.
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Rizzo, a former house manager to the Dubins, had previously testified in a 2016 deposition that a 15-year-old Swedish girl who accompanied Maxwell to the Dubin's home tearfully told him that Maxwell had threatened and tried to force her to have sex with Epstein.
Rizzo had opposed the documents in the case from being released, but Preska found that he has already been named in the press and has given interviews so "no justifications exist" to keep them sealed.
But Preska did order that documents related to the five other "Does" remain sealed.
They include two minors who "played no part" in the conduct alleged in the suit, a person who worked for Epstein in a financial capacity, and a man who was named in a flight log with Epstein, Preska said.
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