U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said anyone who was following the Jeffrey Epstein case would "learn next to nothing new" by reading the grand jury materials.

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that grand jury records from the sex trafficking case of Ghislaine Maxwell - partner of late financier Jeffrey Epstein - will remain sealed, writing that their release would not answer lingering questions about the case despite the Justice Department's portrayal of them as matters of significant public interest.

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury materials from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking case on Monday, assailing the plea as a “distraction.” The Justice Department (DOJ) had sought to release testimony and exhibits from the case against Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice,