Virginia Giuffre: Another Casualty of the State
Virginia Giuffre died yesterday. They say she committed suicide. They say that about a lot of whistleblowers and inconvenient witnesses. Giuffre was perhaps the most high profile victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. Prince Andrew was among those she was trafficked to. She was a brave person who is hopefully at peace.
Virginia was treated like most threats to the rich and powerful have always been treated. She wouldn’t be silent after she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” by wealthy, decadent predators. High profile attorney Alan Dershowitz, whom she alleged was one of her abusers, called her a “liar, perjurer, and extortionist.” He even filed a counter lawsuit against her. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be a cute teenager. When horny men of means are tempted, they usually get what they want. Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s twisted Girl Friday, sounded like a true Mean Girl in one snippy comment found in a sealed document from her 2016 deposition, “I would never — the outfit doesn’t work at all so…I did not take her shopping.” Maxwell was referring to the outfit in the infamous photo above, which depicts Prince Andrew with his arm around a teenage Virginia’s waist, while Ghislaine is beaming behind her.
At the beginning of this month, stories broke that Virginia was hospitalized, and was being given “four days to live” after a suspicious crash with a school bus. The former Virginia Roberts wanted to see her children one last time, and commented, “But I think it’s important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110kmh as we were slowing down for a turn, that no matter what your car is made of, it might as well be a tin can.” A photo of Virginia, presumably from her hospital bed, showed her severely bruised face. Virginia’s publicist declared, “Virginia has been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.” A few days later, Australian police released a statement calling the incident “minor” with no reported injuries. Speculation was that Virginia was trying to appeal to her estranged chil
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