The household of Virginia Giuffre, who was one in all Jeffrey Epstein’s most outstanding intercourse trafficking accusers, have mentioned they’re “outraged” over the US Division of Justice’s launch of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell – a convicted intercourse trafficker and ex-girlfriend of the deceased paedophile financier Epstein – refuted a number of claims of kid intercourse trafficking and abuse in the course of the two-day-long interview with Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche in July.
Reacting after the transcripts of the interview had been launched on Friday, Ms Giuffre’s household mentioned it gave Maxwell the “platform to rewrite history” and confirmed she was “never challenged about her court-proven lies”.
“As the family of one of the most prominent survivors, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we are outraged,” they mentioned in a press release.
“The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking.”
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Virginia Giuffre was one in all Jeffrey Epstein’s most outstanding accusers. File pic: AP
Ms Giuffre’s household added: “This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister.”
Referencing Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum-security facility in Texas earlier this month, they mentioned it “sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded”.
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“We continue to call upon the DOJ (Department of Justice) to do its job by investigating and holding accountable the many rich and powerful people who enabled Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” they concluded.
Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, had beforehand claimed that Maxwell launched her to Epstein and employed her as his masseuse, earlier than she was intercourse trafficked and sexually abused by him and associates all over the world.
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She sued Prince Andrew for sexual abuse in August 2021 – saying he had intercourse along with her when she was 17 and had been trafficked by Epstein.
The duke has repeatedly denied the claims, and he has not been charged with any felony offences.
In March 2022, it was introduced Ms Giuffre and Andrew had reached an out-of-court settlement – believed to incorporate a “substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights”.
Throughout her interview with Mr Blanche final month, Maxwell mentioned Ms Giuffre’s allegation towards the duke “doesn’t hold water”, and denied ever introducing Epstein to him or Sarah Ferguson.
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Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts in 2001. Pic: Shutterstock
She insisted Epstein and Andrew met individually, and mentioned “I think Sarah [Ferguson] is the one that pushed that”, earlier than saying that allegations Andrew had intercourse with Ms Giuffre had been unfaithful, as she was at her mom’s eightieth birthday celebrations within the countryside exterior the town.
Maxwell then claimed Ms Giuffre’s allegation that she and Andrew had sexual contact within the rest room of her London flat was not true, because the room was not sufficiently big.
She additionally claimed that a picture of her standing alongside Andrew along with his arm round Ms Giuffre’s waist was “literally a fake photo”.
In the course of the interview with Mr Blanche, Maxwell denied ever seeing US President Donald Trump in an “inappropriate setting” and insisted she was not conscious of any Epstein ‘shopper checklist’.
Beneath rising stress to launch information associated to Epstein, as he promised to do throughout his 2024 presidential marketing campaign, Mr Trump has made a sequence of denials and claims concerning the paedophile financier.
In July, the president informed reporters on Air Pressure One which Epstein “stole” Ms Giuffre and different younger girls from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Mr Trump has additionally floated a pardon for Maxwell, saying earlier this month that “nobody” had requested to however insisted that he has “the right to do it”.
“I’m allowed to do it, but nobody’s asked me to do it. I know nothing about it,” he added. “I don’t know anything about the case, but I know I have the right to do it.
“I’ve the best to offer pardons, I’ve given pardons to individuals earlier than, however no person’s even requested me to do it.”
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Maxwell was sentenced within the US in June 2022 to twenty years in jail following her conviction on 5 counts of intercourse trafficking for luring younger ladies to therapeutic massage rooms for Epstein to abuse. She has requested the US Supreme Court docket to overturn her conviction.
Epstein, 66, was discovered useless in his cell at a Manhattan federal jail in August 2019 as he awaited trial on intercourse trafficking expenses. His dying was dominated a suicide.
His case has generated infinite consideration and conspiracy theories on account of his and Maxwell’s hyperlinks to well-known individuals like royals, presidents and billionaires, together with Mr Trump.
Nobody apart from Epstein and Maxwell has been charged with any felony offences.
