A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to access the names of three unnamed accusers whose accounts of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein formed the basis of the criminal sex-trafficking charges against her.

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York said the request from Maxwell and her Cohen & Gresser attorneys was “premature,” since discovery in the case had just begun, and rejected her plea to be moved into general population at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where she is being held without bail.

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