A Manhattan federal judge has scheduled a public hearing on March 8 to determine whether a juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial was being entirely forthcoming about being a victim of childhood sexual abuse.

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York said Thursday that direct questioning of the juror was necessary to resolve Maxwell’s motion for a new trial, in light of the juror’s disclosure in post-verdict interviews with the media.

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