The secretly recorded videos of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other accused johns at a Florida day spa will be kept under wraps — at least for now.
Palm Beach County Judge Joseph Marx filed an order Wednesday to seal more than 100 hours of recordings from the Orchids of Asia Day Spa prostitution sting in Jupiter, the Boston Herald reported.
Under the order, the video and audio evidence won’t be released until a jury is seated or the case is resolved for spa owner Lei Wang and massage therapist Hua Zhang. Both face more than a dozen prostitution charges.
The judge previously said he would seal the records, but made the move official Wednesday by signing the court order.
In his ruling, Marx cited the publicity surrounding the case in which the women allegedly provided sexual services to dozens of clients, including the 77-year-old Patriots owner.
“Defendants are guaranteed a fair and impartial trial by jury, not a trial by community or in the press,” Marx wrote in the order, according to the Boston Herald.
The decision to seal the videos comes after another judge blocked the release of the alleged rub-and-tug footage in Kraft’s case, in which the billionaire faces two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution.
His lawyers have argued the vids should be tossed from the trial — and the judge is expected to rule on the motion in the coming days.