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Virginia Robert's Repsonds To Ghislaine Maxwell's "Undisputed Facts" (Part 9) (5/31/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  In this episode, we're diving right back in to Virginia
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  Roberts and her response to Glayn Maxwell and her undisputed facts.
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  Defendants Proborted Facts fifty. Miss Roberts intentionally destroyed her journal
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  and dream journal regarding her memories of this case. In
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  twenty thirteen, while represented by counsel, Miss Roberts drafted a
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  journal describing individuals to whom she claimed she was sexually trafficked,
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  as well as her memories and thoughts about her experiences
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  with Epstein. In twenty thirteen, she and her husband created
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  a bonfire in her backyard in Florida and burned the journal,
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  together with other documents in her possession. Miss Roberts also
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  kept a dream journal regarding her thoughts and memories that
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  she possessed in January twenty sixteen. To date, Miss Roberts
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  cannot locate the dream journal miss Roberts's statement controverting defendants facts.
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  The dream journal contained memories of Miss roberts dreams. While
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  Miss Roberts has looked for this journal, which is wholly
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  irrelevant to this case, she has been unable to locate it.
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  Miss Roberts also wrote a personal journal some of her
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  experiences with Maxwell and Epstein, which were harmful and painful,
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  in an effort to relieve herself of those past painful experiences.
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  Miss Roberts followed the advice of a therapist and burned
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  the journal as a form of cathartic release at a
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  time when she was under no obligation to maintain the
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  personal memorialization of personal and painful experiences. See McCaulay declaration
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  at Exhibit five The defendants Purported Facts fifty one. Miss
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  Roberts publicly peddled her story Beginning in twenty eleven. Miss
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  Roberts granted journalist Sharon Churcher extensive interviews that resulted in
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  seven widely distributed articles from March twenty eleven through January
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  twenty fifteen. Churcher regularly communicated with Miss Roberts and her
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  attorneys or other agents. From early twenty eleven to the
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  present day, Miss Roberts received approximately one hundred and sixty
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  thousand dollars for stories and pictures that were published by
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  many news organizations. Miss Robert's statement controverting the defendant's facts.
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  Defendant statement misrepresents history in twenty eleven, Miss Roberts was
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  still in hiding from Epstein and Maxwell in Australia. Miss
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  Roberts was not looking to sell anything or even speak
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  with anyone about what happened in her previous life from
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  which she dramatically escaped. Journalist Saron Churcher located Miss Roberts
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  and impressed the importance of Miss Roberts standing up to
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  those who had harmed her and speak with federal authorities,
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  which Miss Roberts did in twenty eleven. In addition, Churcher
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  impressed the importance of bringing the abuse of defendant and
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  Epstein the public light to prevent their continued abuse of
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  others see McCauley declaration at exhibit thirty five. After much deliberation,
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  Miss Roberts agreed to be interviewed by Churcher and was
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  compensated for sharing her story, which came at a heavy
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  price of being publicly scrutinized. Defendants Purported Facts fifty two.
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  Miss Roberts drafting a one hundred and forty four page
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  purportedly autobiographical book manuscript in twenty eleven, which she actively
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  sought to publish. In twenty eleven, contemporaneous with her Churcher interviews,
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  Miss Roberts drafted a book manuscript which purported to document
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  Miss Roberts's experiences as a teenager in Florida, including her
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  interactions with Epstein and Maxwell. Miss Roberts communicated with literary agents, ghostwriters,
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  and potential independent publishers in an effort to get her
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  book published. She generated marketing materials and circulated those, along
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  with book chapters, to numerous individuals associated with publishing and
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  the media. Miss Robert's statement controverting the defendants facts Dan's
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  characterization of these activities are out of context and thus misleading.
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  In two thousand and eight, Miss Roberts received a victim
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  notification letter from the United States Attorney's Office for the
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  Southern District of Florida Seemacaulay Declaration at Exhibit thirty, regarding
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  her sexual victimization by Epstein. Thereafter, in twenty eleven, she
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  sought psychological counseling from a psychologist for the trauma she endured.
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  Also that year, journalist Sharon Churcher sought her out and
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  traveled halfway around the globe to interviewer on painful subjects.
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  Miss Roberts was interviewed by the FBI in twenty eleven.
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  Seemacauleey declaration at Exhibit thirty one. She was also getting
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  psychological help Seemacaulay declaration at Exhibit thirty eight. In that situation,
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  Miss Roberts began to draft a fictionalized account of what
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  happened to her. It was against this backdrop of trauma
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  being unearthed her steps to seek psychological counseling for it
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  that she drafted this manuscript. Doing so was an active
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  empowerment and a way of reframing and taking control over
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  the narrative of her past abuse that haunts her. Writing
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  I has been an emancipatory project for women. Parote Gene Autobiography,
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  Transformation Asymmetry, Women Autobiography Theory A Reader edited by Siddoni
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  Smith and Julia Watson. Indeed, scholars have written that the
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  act of engaging in autobiography or even accounts loosely based
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  on autobiography, is a process for taking control of one's
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  own narrative and one's own self. Thus, a specific recitation
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  of identity involves the inclusion of certain identity contents and
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  the exclusion of others. The incorporation of certain narrative, itineraries
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  and internationalities, and the silencing of others, the adoption of
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  certain biographical voices, the muting of others. Smith Sidoni perform
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  a Vity Autobiographical Practice Resistance Women Autobiography Theory or Reader
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  edited by Sadoni Smith and Julia Watson. Indeed, even a
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  cursory look at the manuscript penned by Miss Roberts informs
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  the reader that she is trying to put forth a
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  more palatable and more empowering narrative to overwrite that powerlessness
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  that she felt while being abused by the defendant and Epstein.
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  While Miss Roberts explored trying the publish her story to
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  empower other individuals who were also subject to abuse, she
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  ultimately decided not to publish it. Siemacaulay Declaration at Exhibit
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  five Defendants Purported Facts fifty three. Miss Roberts publicly filed
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  lurid cvra pleadings, initiated a media frenzy and generated highly
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  publicized litigation between her lawyers and Alan Dershowitz. On December thirtieth,
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  twenty fourteen, Miss Roberts, through Council, publicly filed a joined
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  her motion that contained her lo surd allegations about Miss
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  Maxwell and many others, including Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Jean
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  Luc Brunel, and the Joint. Her motion was followed by
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  a corrected motion and to further declarations in January and
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  February of twenty fifteen, which repeated many of Miss Roberts's claims.
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  These CVR pleadings generated Amdia Malstrom and spawned highly publicized
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  litigation between Miss Roberts lawyers Edwards and Gassell, and Alan Dershowitz.
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  After Miss Roberts publicly alleged mister Dershowitz of sexual misconduct,
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  mister Dershowitz vigorously defended himself in the media. He called
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  Miss Roberts a liar and accused her lawyers of unethical conduct.
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  In response, attorneys Edwards n Gissell sued Dershowitz, who counterclaimed.
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  This litigation in turn caused additional media attention by national
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  and international media organizations. Miss Robert's statement controverting defendants facts
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  see Miss Roberts Paragraph seven Supra explaining why the allegations
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  were necessary and appropriate for multiple reasons. Miss Roberts disputes
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  defendants false characterization of these events and indeed, the media
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  attention was caused by defendant issuing her defamatory press release.
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  Defendants purported Acts number fifty four. Miss Roberts formed nonprofit
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  Victims Refuse Silence to attract publicity and speak out on
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  a public controversy. In twenty fourteen, Miss Roberts, with the
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  assistance of the same council, formed a nonprofit organization, Victims
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  Refuse Silence. According to Miss Roberts, the purpose of the
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  organization is to promote Miss roberts confessed cause against sex slavery.
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  The stated goal of her organization is to help survivors
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  surmount the shame, silence, and intimidation typically experienced by victims
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  of sexual abuse. Miss Roberts attempts to promote Victims Refuse
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  Silence at every opportunity. For example, Miss Roberts participated in
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  an interview in New York with ABC to promote the
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  charity and to get our mission out to the public.
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  You mean the interview that was quashed by your friends, right,
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  that's what you're talking about. Remember that interview with Amy
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  Roebock was quashed Miss Robert's statement controverting the defendant's facts.
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  Miss Roberts did not form the nonprofit Victims to refuse
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  silence to speak out on public controversy, but instead to
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  simply help survivors of sexual abuse and sexual trafficking. In
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  order to provide assistance to victims, Miss Roberts attempted to
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  talk about the nonprofit's mission when she had the opportunity
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  to do so. Miss Robert's Statements of undisputed facts fifty five.
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  Virginia Roberts was born August ninth, nineteen eighty three, fifty six.
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  Virginia Roberts turned eighteen on August ninth, two thousand and one,
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  fifty seven. In two thousand, Virginia's father, Sky Roberts, worked
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  at the mar A Lago fifty eight. Sky Roberts got
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  Virginia a job at mar A Lago into either months
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  before or just after virginia seventeenth birthday fifty nine. The
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  only year in which Virginia was employed at mar A
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  Lago was two thousand. Sixty. Virginia worked at mar A
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  Lago as a spa bathroom attendant sixty one. Virginia was
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  not a masseuse at mar A Lago as she had
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  no massage experience. Sixty two. Maxwell approached Virginia at mar
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  A Lago and recruited her to come to Jeffrey Epstein's
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  house number sixty three. At the time Maxwell recruited Virginia
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  to Jeffrey Epstein's house, Virginia was either sixteen or seventeen
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  years old, depending on whether this occurred just before or
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  just after Virginia's birthday sixty four. Virginia followed Maxwell's instructions
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  and reported to Jeffrey Epstein's house on the night of
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  the day when Maxwell approached Virginia at mar A Lago
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  Number sixty five, Maxwell told Virginia at mar A Lago
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  that Virginia could get paid for giving a massage to
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  Jeffrey Epstein sixty six. When Virginia arrived at Epstein's house,
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  she was taken upstairs to Epstein's bedroom and instructed by
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  Maxwell and Epstein had to give Epstein a massage. Sixty seven.
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  Epstein and Maxwell turned the massage into a sexual encounter.
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  Number sixty eight. Virginia was not a professional massuse and
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  was not old enough to be a massus in Florida,
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  even though Maxwell testified she only hired professional massuses. Sixty nine.
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  Maxwell and Epstein promised Virginia money and a better life
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  in exchange for complying with their sexual demands. Seventy Maxwell
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  had sex with Virginia and other females. Seventy one. Virginia
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  was trafficked nationally and internationally for sexual purposes. Seventy two.
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  Maxwell recruited other non professionals under the guise of being
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  a massus, but in reality only recruited girls for sexual purposes.
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  Seventy three. Maxwell was the boss of others whose job
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  it was to recruit minor females for Epstein for sex,
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  such as Sarah Kellen Number seventy four. Maxwell was a
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  recruiter of underage girls and other young females for Epstein
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  four sex and was the boss in charge of those females.
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  This document was dated January thirty first, twenty seventeen, and
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  it was signed by Sigared macauley. All Right, folks, well
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  that's going to be a wrap for the Virginia Robert
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  to response to Glain Maxwell's so called undisputed facts. And
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  obviously there is a ton more to come with all
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  of these core documents to get through, so we're going
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  to continue to make our way through them, and eventually
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  we're going to get to the summit, but until then,
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  all of the information that goes with this episode can
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  be found in the description box.