One day after financier Jeffrey Epstein was hauled into court on an explosive new sex trafficking indictment in New York, a judge in another civil case related to the convicted pedophile has scheduled a hearing to lay out how potentially damaging documents that were sealed in the case will be made public.

Manhattan federal court Judge Loretta Preska, who has just been assigned the defamation suit — filed by an alleged victim of Epstein’s — set a hearing for Thursday afternoon to discuss the materials, which a federal appeals court ordered to be unsealed.

In its ruling last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said the 2,000-page trove of sealed documents from the defamation case contains potentially damaging information about sexual abuse by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister and other world leaders.”

Among the alleged victims is Virginia Giuffre, who filed a defamation suit against Epstein pal Ghislane Maxwell.

Giuffre claims that Maxwell defamed her by saying that Giuffre was lying about the abuse. Epstein was arrested on his private plane on Saturday and, on Monday, he was hauled into Manhattan federal court where the multibillionaire pedophile pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and a related conspiracy charge.

Prosecutors allege that Epstein maintained a network of minor girls whom he paid to give him erotic massages and to have sex with his famous friends. At a hearing on Monday, prosecutors did not rule out the possibility of other defendants getting included in the criminal case.

Preska is newly assigned to the case — she inherited it from the late District Judge Robert Sweet after he died in March.