What deposition transcripts from the Maxwell civil case reference individuals named Riley, and what are the exact text citations?
Executive summary
A close reading of the materials provided for this reporting project shows no direct evidence that any deposition transcript from the Maxwell civil case contains a reference to an individual named “Riley”; the principal unsealed 2016 Maxwell deposition is available as a PDF but the supplied index and reportage do not surface a “Riley” citation [1] [2]. Public indexes and secondary archival hubs that route readers to Maxwell-related deposition text also do not, in the material supplied here, document a “Riley” mention; therefore a definitive list of transcripts and exact line citations referencing “Riley” cannot be produced from these sources alone [3].
1. The documents known to be public and where they live
The central primary record made widely available in October 2020 is the 2016 deposition transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell—more than 400 pages unsealed after court orders and covered by multiple outlets—accessible as a PDF of the deposition itself and reported on by local and national press [1] [2] [4]. Aggregators and litigation repositories such as Epstein Wiki and court dockets now route readers to those deposition transcripts and related exhibit indexes, and appellate decisions and briefing explain why portions were unsealed or left sealed [3] [5].
2. What the provided deposition PDF and contemporaneous reporting actually show
The deposition PDF made publicly available contains Maxwell’s sworn testimony across multiple pages and has been excerpted in news coverage emphasizing Maxwell’s denials of recruiting minors and her descriptions of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—reporting that highlights questions about hiring, dates, and interactions but does not, in the sources supplied here, reproduce or flag any passage naming “Riley” [1] [6] [4]. Coverage of the unsealing and appellate fights frames the records as voluminous and redacted in places to protect privacy, which complicates any search for single-name references solely through press summaries [7] [8].
3. Absence of a “Riley” citation in the supplied reporting — what that means and limits
Because the search results and articles made available for this task (including the PDF pointer and secondary hubs) do not show a highlighted “Riley” or provide an index entry for that name, the evidence at hand does not support asserting that any transcript references a “Riley”; however, absence from these particular materials is not proof that no such reference exists anywhere in the broader docket or sealed portions—only that it was not captured by the supplied set of documents and reports [1] [3] [5].
4. Where to look next to find exact text citations if they exist
To produce precise line-by-line citations (e.g., page and line numbers or PDF locators) one must search the unredacted deposition transcripts directly—either by downloading the Maxwell deposition PDF mentioned in the sources and performing a full-text search for “Riley,” or by querying litigation archives and court repositories (DocumentCloud, PACER/RECAP, or the Epstein Wiki index) that host the full transcript and exhibits [1] [3] [5]. News summaries and appellate opinions will not substitute for that direct textual search if the goal is exact textual citations [7] [9].
5. Competing signals and possible reasons a name might not appear in reportage
Journalists and courts have emphasized redactions and privacy protections in these records—media coverage tends to extract salient allegations and denials rather than exhaustively listing every named person—so even if a “Riley” appears in a less prominent place or in a sealed exhibit, it may not surface in mainstream summaries; this editorial and judicial selection bias helps explain why supplied news pieces and hub pages do not reveal such a citation [8] [10].
6. Conclusion and the honest limitation of the record provided
From the documents and reporting supplied, there is no documented deposition transcript citation that names “Riley”; absent access to a searchable, complete copy of every deposition transcript and exhibit from the Giuffre v. Maxwell discovery set, the exact text citations cannot be asserted here with confidence [1] [3] [5]. For a verifiable answer, the next step is a direct text search of the unsealed PDFs and any related deposition exhibits in the public docket or archived repositories referenced above [1] [3].