Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted in 2021 of helping him sexually abuse teenage girls, said through lawyers on Tuesday that she opposes the U.S. government's bid to release transcripts of proceedings before the grand jury that indicted her.

In a court filing, Maxwell's lawyers said the release of the materials would jeopardize a potential retrial if she succeeds in persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.

"The reputational harm from releasing incomplete, potentially misleading grand jury testimony, untested by cross-examination, would be severe and irrevocable," her lawyers wrote.

U.S. President Donald Trump last month instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of the Epstein and Maxwell grand jury material, as he sought to quell discontent from his base of conservative supporters and congressional Democrats over his administration's handling of documents from the cases.

Trump had promised to make public Epstein-related files if re-elected and accused Democrats of covering up the truth. But in July, the Justice Department said a previously touted Epstein client list did not exist, angering Trump's supporters.

Testimony can only be unsealed by judge

Grand juries meet in secret to guard against interference in criminal investigations, and records of their proceedings cannot be disclosed without a judge's permission.

The U.S. Justice Department has cited what it calls continuing public interest in the cases in asking Manhattan-based judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer to authorize the disclosure of the Epstein and Maxwell grand jury transcripts. It is unclear whether the public would learn anything new or noteworthy if such material were released.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Justice Department said in a court filing that much of the testimony from law enforcement officers at Maxwell's grand jury proceedings in 2020 was corroborated by the victims and witnesses who testified publicly at her trial the following year.

Lawyers for Epstein and his alleged victims are also due to share their views on the potential disclosures with the court on Tuesday.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking in Manhattan federal court. Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He had pleaded not guilty.

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Moved to lower security facility 

"Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive," Maxwell's lawyers wrote.

Her lawyers have told the Supreme Court that her conviction was invalid because a non-prosecution and plea agreement that federal prosecutors had made with Epstein in Florida in 2007 also shielded his associates. The Court is due to consider whether to take up the appeal in late September.

Last month, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell to see if she had any information about other people who may have committed crimes. Neither party has provided a detailed account of what they discussed.

Maxwell last week was moved from a prison in Florida to a lower-security facility in Texas.