Newly unsealed court records indicate that longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell lied to the court about when she had last spoken with the deceased convicted sex offender as the indicted socialite tried, but failed, to be granted bail after her arrest.

Maxwell’s attorneys claimed to the court on July 10 that after Epstein’s death in his cell last August, “the media focus quickly shifted to our client — wrongly trying to substitute her for Epstein — even though she’d had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade.” But thousands of pages of court records released Thursday night from a defamation case between Epstein’s alleged right-hand woman and Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused both Epstein and Maxwell of forcing her into illegal sexual activities when she was underage, included an email exchange between Epstein and Maxwell in 2015 — a far cry from 10 years ago.