It seems the spotlight has shifted from Paul, Weiss to another major law firm, Jones Day, which has emerged in connection with Ghislaine Maxwell during the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Documents indicate that Jones Day may have represented Epstein’s notorious accomplice back in 2017, a connection previously unreported in the public domain.

Email exchanges from the Justice Department’s files reveal transactions where Maxwell directed substantial amounts of money to the Jones Day Client Trust Account. The earliest of these emails, dated February 6, 2017, shows Maxwell instructing UBS to transfer $25,000 to the account. This was followed by another transaction on April 18, 2017, where $31,746.50 was transferred under the guidance of the same UBS employee, whose identity was inconsistently redacted across communications.

The paper trail doesn’t end there. September 2017 saw a massive $218,791.31 transferred to Jones Day from Maxwell, confirmed by a team of four from UBS. A later summary of her year’s transactions highlighted these payments among others, linking Jones Day alongside Haddon, Morgan, and Foreman—a Denver-based firm known to be Maxwell’s main legal representation in a defamation lawsuit initiated by Virginia Giuffre in 2015.

The exact nature of Jones Day’s involvement is not clear from the documents, raising questions about whether they provided behind-the-scenes legal counsel in the Giuffre case or another matter entirely. The inconclusive state of the Justice Department’s database adds to the mystery, leaving more questions than answers about the firm’s role.

While representing an accused individual is standard practice in legal professions, the late emergence of Jones Day in the high-profile Epstein case certainly raises eyebrows. As these revelations unfold, the legal and public scrutiny surrounding the connections of law firms like Jones Day is set to intensify, spotlighting the often opaque interactions between legal representatives and their high-profile clients.