More than 170 people with ties to Jeffrey Epstein — including former employees and victims — are set to be named in a trove of court documents that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered unsealed in the coming weeks.

Judge Loretta Preska on Monday ordered the release of the trove of long-sealed documents in the since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought against the convicted pedophile’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in 2015.

Under the ruling, dozens of individuals — who have previously only been identified as “Jane Does” or “John Does” in various court filings linked to the suit — will likely be identified when materials tied to them are “unsealed in full.”

The judge has given those individuals 14 days to appeal the decision, according to Monday’s order.

Meanwhile, a handful of Does will be spared after the judge found that unsealing their names in specific court documents would “disclose sensitive information regarding an alleged minor victim of sexual abuse who has not spoken publicly and who has maintained his or her privacy.”

Previously sealed court docs tied to Giuffre’s defamation suit against Maxwell, which they eventually settled in 2017 for an undisclosed amount, have trickled out over the years.

The defamation suit had centered on Giuffre’s claim that Maxwell defamed her by saying that she was lying about being sex-trafficked by Epstein when she was a teen.

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