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In late January, the name of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims appeared buried in the Epstein files.

The woman’s name had been left unredacted, exposing her identity to the world. The woman, whom I will call Francesca, had in the decades since her abuse gone on to marry, start a family and forge a new life of anonymity.

She was furious — the US Department of Justice (DoJ) had promised to protect survivors of Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring by concealing their names. But above all she was terrified of Ghislaine Maxwell.