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Has Virginia Giuffre filed new restraining orders or legal motions in 2025?
Executive summary
Reporting and court records from 2025 show Virginia Giuffre was involved in multiple legal proceedings that year — including appellate activity tied to her 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell and state-level litigation with Rina Oh — and she was the subject of a family violence restraining order filed by her husband in February 2025 (which led to contested court dates in April) [1] [2] [3]. Available sources do not provide a single, comprehensive list of every restraining‑order or motion she personally filed in 2025; they instead document motions and appellate decisions in cases bearing her name and reporting about a restraining order her husband obtained [1] [2] [3].
1. What the federal appellate record shows: unsealing fights tied to the Maxwell defamation case
The Second Circuit issued a high‑profile unsealing decision in Giuffre v. Maxwell in July 2025, holding that the district court erred by excluding undecided motions from being treated as judicial documents and emphasizing that a document’s “judicial” status is fixed at filing; that decision flowed from the 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre and involved extensive sealing and multiple sealing/unsealing motions by third parties [4] [1] [5]. The appellate opinion vacated earlier district court orders and remanded for individualized review of sealed motion materials, a procedural development about public access rather than a new underlying claim by Giuffre [1].
2. State appellate activity: litigation with Rina Oh
Public docket summaries and reporting show Giuffre was a party to New York state litigation with artist Rina Oh (also styled Rina Oh Amen), with an Appellate Division judgment dated April 8, 2025 (motion/ slip op references appear in court summaries) — indicating active motions/appeals in 2025 in matters involving her [2]. CaseMine and other legal commentary tie this to broader post‑Epstein litigation dynamics; the available snippets identify the motion and appellate disposition but do not list every motion Giuffre personally filed in that docket [2].
3. Family court and restraining‑order reporting: husband’s February 2025 filing and contested hearings
Multiple news outlets and reporting document that Giuffre’s estranged husband, Robert Giuffre, filed a family violence restraining order against her in February 2025 that — according to family statements and court records cited in reporting — resulted in her being prohibited from contacting their children and produced scheduled court appearances in April 2025 to address alleged violations (People, E! Online, Yahoo/Australia coverage) [3] [6] [7]. These pieces report Giuffre denied breaching the order and that a hearing was postponed; the coverage centers on the husband’s filing and resulting litigation rather than an ex parte restraining order she filed herself [6] [7] [3].
4. Conflicting narratives and media posture: contested facts and divergent coverage
Reporting about Giuffre’s final months shows divergent emphases: court‑document and appellate coverage treats sealed‑records battles and procedural remands (Second Circuit), while tabloid and news outlets focus on the family restraining order, alleged domestic incidents, and Giuffre’s denials of violations [1] [3] [8]. Some outlets emphasize that Robert’s restraining order prevented her seeing her children and link it to her deteriorating circumstances; others foreground Giuffre’s public denials and claims of abuse. Readers should note these are different kinds of legal actions (civil sealing/unsealing and family‑court restraining orders) and that the sources do not all track the same docket entries [1] [3].
5. What the sources do not say — limits on verification
Available sources do not list a standalone, dated filing by Virginia Giuffre in 2025 labeled a “new restraining order” that she personally initiated; instead, the reporting documents a restraining order obtained by her husband, state appellate actions and federal appellate unsealing rulings tied to her earlier defamation suit [1] [2] [3]. They also do not provide a comprehensive calendar of every motion she or her counsel filed that year; court dockets and full filings would be needed to compile that complete record [4] [2].
6. Bottom line for your question
If by “filed new restraining orders or legal motions in 2025” you mean filings initiated by Giuffre herself, available reporting and the cited court summaries do not document a public, new restraining order filed by her in 2025; instead, sources record a restraining order filed against her by her husband and active motions/appeals in civil litigation bearing her name [3] [1] [2]. For definitive confirmation about any filings she personally initiated in 2025, one would need to consult the underlying state and federal dockets or the original court filings — documents not reproduced in the current reporting (not found in current reporting; [4]; p1_s4).