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Why Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre's Life — and Death — Matter

Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell, London, 2001. SDNY image.

The other day I watched an interview with David Boies, who worked for years as Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s attorney. Virginia is now dead. She took her own life on her ranch in Australia a few days ago. No one in her family thinks her death was anything other than self-inflicted. There was no foul play, they claim. The mode of her death has not been made public. 

Watching that interview with Piers Morgan and Boies made me profoundly sad for this woman. It also renewed my anger against those who treat the issue of sexual trafficking cavalierly. It redoubled my anger over the thoughtless and lawless trafficking of hundreds of thousands of children across the border by the Biden Administration. 

Joe Biden knew what he was doing when he turned on the spigot and allowed the cartels and taxpayer-supported NGOs to mastermind the importation of children into the United States for all manner of illegal things, chief among them sex trafficking. 

Of course he knew. 

Despite her abuse, Giuffre’s strength while matter-of-factly telling her story to reporters in Australia impressed me. Her steely ease with the subject was slightly off-putting — how could someone who’d gone through so much be so dispassionate? But she wasn’t. She roiled within.

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Though she was heroic and energetic on behalf of sex trafficked people, Boies maintains that his longtime client suffered feelings of unworthiness that took a toll on her.  

The pressure she felt was made worse after suing Britain’s Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, for having sex with her on at least three occasions when she was underage. 

She sued him on behalf of her 17-year-old self and other sex trafficked kids.

Boies told Morgan:

She was an extraordinary young woman. I regret that we could not have done more to protect her, but I think at this moment—I think both sadness and also appreciation for the life that she led. She was an extraordinarily strong woman, ultimately brought down by years of abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and then later, years of verbal abuse and attacks by Epstein and his powerful collaborators. 

She accomplished a great deal.  Without her courage and without her coming forward, Jeffrey Epstein would probably still be abusing young girls. 

For his part, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor would never admit fault, but he did pay Giuffre a princely sum of a reported $16 million. Part of the settlement was paid by the Queen to Giuffre’s charity, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR), a resource for survivors of sex trafficking. 

The recent collapse of Giuffre’s marriage, a strange car accident, and allegations of abuse in her family separated her, not only from her husband but from her three teenage children. The separation tore at her. 

During a hospital stay after her car accident, she prayed she could see her children before she died. 


Sadly, she didn’t.

Boies told Morgan that he has an obligation to the truth about Virginia and said: 

The facts about her life are fairly well known. She was sexually abused when she was seven years old by a man known to her family. She ran away from home when she was 14. When she was 17, she met Ghislain Maxwell while she was working as a locker room assistant at Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. 

It should be noted here that Trump kicked Epstein out of his club permanently after a member told the future president that Epstein was trying to hit on his daughter. 

Maxwell offered her a job as a masseuse to Epstein, who later trafficked her to his friends and clients, passing her around, it was said, like a platter of fruit, and among them, uh, she said was Prince Andrew, who she said she was forced to have sex with on three occasions. 

That is pretty much her life crystallized into a few paragraphs. 

But, he said, it's what she did after her victimization that was most impactful. 

I think what it doesn't capture is the triumph of the human spirit that she represented because despite that background, she became a passionate, courageous, strong, effective advocate for the vulnerable. She dedicated the last 11 years of her life, fighting to make sure that other children didn't have to go through what, what she went through, so I think that it's, it's right to focus on those years.

A few days ago, I posted an article called "Yet Another Example of What Democrats Assured Us Wasn’t Happening Really Was the Whole Time." It's about how the Biden Administration failed to protect children coming over the border alone or with phony "family" members. Some 300,000 children were brought over the border.  

To quicken the flow of humanity, the Biden Administration stopped using DNA technology to match these children with family. 

The cartels made more money on human trafficking than on drugs. 

Biden and his minions knew what would happen, and did it anyway. Better to count votes than save kids. 

Before she died, Virginia Giuffre left a note — not a suicide note, but a note of hope. Giuffre's family released the handwritten note, and in it, she asked the world to "stand together to fight for the future of victims." 

When you think about those children sent over the border by who knows whom, think about Virginia Giuffre’s life. Think about the cost of sexual depravity to a soul. 

And then support the people trying to stop it. 

The interview is below:


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