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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 307 Filed 06/25/21 Page1of21 Uspc SDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT HOCH SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DATE FILED: _6/25/2021_| United States of America, _y_ 20-cr-330 (AJN) Ghislaine Maxwell, OPINION & ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: Maxwell moves to suppress evidence obtained through a grand jury subpoena to a law firm involved in earlier civil litigation against her. She contends that because the documents sought by the subpoena were previously subject to a protective order, the Government obtained them in violation of her rights against compelled self-incrimination, against unreasonable searches and seizures, and to due process of law. For the reasons that follow, the Court concludes that the evidence should not be suppressed and that Maxwell is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing. 1. Background In late 2015, Virginia Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation. See Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 15-cv-7433 (S.D.N.Y.). Giuffre alleged that Maxwell defamed her by accusing her of lying about Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein sexually abusing her. The law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP (BSF) represented Giuffre in the dispute. The parties litigated the case for about two years before signing a confidential settlement agreement. Early in the civil litigation, one of the attorneys representing Giuffre approached an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the Southern District of New York and requested a DOJ-OGR-00004785