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Newly released emails show Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempts to intimidate and smear the late Virginia Giuffre, who was the most vocal of their survivors until her death this year by suicide.
Photo of the late Virginia Giuffre 🖤✊🏼 with Prince Andrew and her convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Convicted trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell emailed Epstein in January 2015, asking: “Can you send me the file on Virginia that your lawyers have or whatever info you have on her.”
This was just days after Giuffre’s name became prominent in reporting. She was seeking documents that could undermine Giuffre’s credibility.
Giuffre reportedly died by suicide this year.
Her family has continued to call for the full release of the Epstein Files and accountability for survivors.
I’ve been covering this closely follow for all they want to bury.
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After that, Maxwell forwarded a confidential Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report to Epstein dated from the mid-1990s, stamped “confidential.”
It included allegations Giuffre made at age 15, including claims of drug use and “possible involvement in witchcraft,” and language questioning the credibility of her complaint.
Maxwell wrote about it to Epstein in a way that suggests she intended to use it against Giuffre, who had come from an unstable family life.
Maxwell didn’t just collect the material; the emails show she intended to distribute it. It was an overt effort to smear and discredit Virginia Giuffre, who was a force to be reckoned with, by the way….we haven’t forgotten you Virginia.
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Virginia Giuffre always said Epstein and Maxwell worked to smear her. Bloomberg’s release of 18,000 emails confirms it.
In 2015 Maxwell told Epstein she planned to circulate a dossier on Virginia. Weeks later the New York Daily News ran a hit piece citing sealed juvenile records.
Survivors weren’t just abused. They were discredited and attacked for telling the truth.
Virginia deserved to be believed.
The email shows Maxwell asking Epstein for “the file on Virginia” and saying she would distribute it. That’s exactly what Giuffre said was happening.
Weeks later the New York Daily News published a story citing sealed juvenile records.
Giuffre’s attorney at the time @BradEdwards_Esq said those records had been weaponized to smear her. He was right.
Nadia Marcinkova was the 15 year old girl Epstein bragged he had “bought” from her family in Yugoslavia. She later became his pilot, lived with him, and even visited him in jail. She was named as a co-conspirator, but given immunity in Epstein’s sweetheart deal.
Newly released by Bloomberg emails show the way he controlled her. In one message, Epstein called her “the most important person to me.”
In another he sent a 425 word tirade demanding she dance, work out, do “fun sex things,” and manage his stress, telling her she “should be ashamed.”
The emails reveal the coercion and degradation survivors were forced to endure inside Epstein’s network.
The emails were verified by Bloomberg, and show the coercion and provide a small glimpse into how Epstein communicated with his network.
Though Epstein bragged her bought her from her family in Yugoslavia, she is actually Slovakian, born in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Her father has publicly said she was not “bought” by Epstein from her parents.
Epstein sponsored a modeling VISA for her and paid to send her to piloting school.
Epstein survivor Jess Michaels told Katie Couric that PTSD from his abuse means “constant anxiety, insomnia, inability to eat, brain fog, limited mental and physical capacity.”
After years of healing, seeing the disturbing “massage cartoon” in Epstein’s birthday book was triggering.
She said it mirrored a sexual joke he used on her in 1991, and it pulled her right back to the abuse. This is what living with trauma can look like.
Survivors deserve better.
The “cartoon” drawing from Epstein’s birthday book that survivor Michaels found triggering
When Jess Michaels first arrived at Epstein’s penthouse, he greeted her in only a robe and quickly removed it.
As she began the massage, he told her to take off her clothes.
She said she felt she had no choice and described her body going numb.
🚨🚨NEW:
Lord Peter Mandelson has just been sacked & recalled after newly-surfaced emails revealed his deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Mandelson was UK Ambassador to the US.
In the emails that surfaced, Mandelson suggested Epstein’s first conviction was wrongful.
I highlighted Mandelson’s Epstein connection days ago when the birthday book dropped. Now it’s ended his diplomatic career.
More to follow
As I posted days ago, UK Ambassador to the US Mandelson’s entry in Epstein’s birthday book was addressed to “my best pal”
Mandelson was removed after emails surfaced showing he reassured Epstein during his first conviction. He even suggested it was wrongful his conviction should be challenged.
The UK govt said his “depth of
association” was far greater than they’d known.
Graydon Carter was the editor at Vanity Fair at the time. But the magazine’s leadership team cut survivor testimony from the story after Epstein bullied them.
He reportedly sent them threats like a bullet and a severed cat’s head.
And now we know Alan Dershowitz bragged (in a letter included in Epstein’s birthday book released yesterday) that he steered Vanity Fair’s coverage away from Epstein and onto Bill Clinton, calling it a “birthday gift.”
That’s how survivor accounts were buried: through intimidation, interference, and people who caved.
Journalist Vicky Ward originally included Maria and Annie Farmer’s accounts — survivors brave enough to come forward and say Epstein and Maxwell had sexually assaulted them. Those testimonies were cut before publication.
I stood in awe of Annie Farmer’s courage and tenacity as she spoke at last week’s press conference in D.C.
“A thorough public review of the Epstein files is an important step toward healing for those involved and prevention against systemic failures that have occurred in this case.”
— Annie Farmer, who has been demanding transparency and justice since she was just a teen.
On the eve of the Survivors Conference, one truth can’t be ignored: Ghislaine Maxwell is still sitting in a ‘Club Fed’ prison — after providing the DOJ a courtroom performance that retraumatized Epstein’s survivors.
In a Texas prison camp, she’s housed alongside white-collar offenders like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and reality TV star Jen Shah.
I’ve called on legislators to give survivors a clear timeline for when Maxwell will be moved to a facility that reflects the severity of her crimes.
Survivors deserve more than symbolism. They deserve answers, accountability, and a justice system that doesn’t soften consequences for traffickers while silencing their victims.
More on Maxwell’s “Club Fed” transfer below 👇
An inmate who voiced disgust over Maxwell’s presence in the prison camp was transferred out—hardly a coincidence. In this system, speaking up comes with a price.
Federal policy usually bars sex offenders from minimum-security camps. Maxwell’s transfer was an exception. Her privilege undercuts justice, according to survivors.