An appeals court panel in Manhattan on Wednesday hinted they may unseal records in a settled defamation case brought by a woman who said she was a sex slave of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents were collected when Virginia Giuffre sued Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015 for publicly denying that she lured her as an underage girl into Epstein’s harem.

Giuffre and Maxwell settled the case on the eve of the trial in 2017, sealing 167 documents that would have been aired in a courtroom.

At a hearing on Wednesday, a panel of three judges suggested they may rule in favor of unsealing at least some of the documents, which include 29 depositions.

“Is there anything that can be unsealed in this case?” Judge Jose Cabranes asked a lawyer for Maxwell, who was arguing the documents should remain under seal.

“I don’t think,” lawyer Ty Gee responded before being interrupted by Cabranes.

“You can’t possibly be serious?” Cabranes asked.

Giuffre’s lawyer, Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz and a lawyer for the Miami Herald newspaper all argued for the documents to be unsealed after a redaction process.

Judge Cabranes said unsealing the documents after a redaction process is not an unreasonable request.

“This doesn’t require an elaborate opinion,” Cabranes said.

Gee argued the documents shouldn’t be unsealed because the people who testified were asked sensitive “questions about consensual sex with adults.”

Giuffre’s lawyer, Paul Casselle, said she wants a “broad unsealing” of the documents because they would show she was a victim of sex trafficking carried out by Epstein and his associates.

Dershowitz supports the documents being made public because he claims there is evidence in the case that will prove he had nothing to do with Epstein’s sex trafficking — as Giuffre has claimed.

The Miami Herald and its reporter Julie Brown — who has done a series of exposes on Epstein’s criminal case — say the sealing of Giuffre’s civil case violates the public’s first amendment to access the documents.