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An update on what I wrote on Saturday about Virginia Giuffre and her tragic suicide.
I was incorrect when I wrote that the litigation between Epstein survivor, New Jersey-based artist, Rina Oh and Virginia was over.
Oh herself reached out to me, and her lawyer, Alexander M. Dudelson, emailed me: “Rina Oh’s claim under the Adult Victim Act was reinstated after the Appellate Division – First Judicial Department unanimously reversed Justice Arthur F. Engoron. The Court found that the START Act does not insulate Ms. Giuffre from civil liability for her intentional acts against Ms. Oh.
Right now, each of the respective courts have been divested of jurisdiction until an estate fiduciary can be substituted as a party in the place of the decedent. As soon as one is appointed, we intend on proceeding with the adjudication of Ms. Oh’s meritorious claims.”
In fact, I’ve learned that on April 7, just a couple weeks before her death on April 24th, Giuffre experienced a legal setback. The timing is important, because it was just two days before she was also reportedly due in family court in Australia over her messy divorce. So she was under a lot of pressure apart from her family troubles, which were severe. She had lost custody of her three children and her estranged husband had a restraining order against her.
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What A Tragedy.
What else can you say about the suicide of Virginia Giuffre at only 41?
To fight and fight and fight in the way that she did, not just against Jeffrey Epstein the man who had hired her and used and abused her, but to stick up her hand and go boldly and publicly after Prince Andrew, and Ghislaine Maxwell – and a list of other powerful men she accused of assault, participating in Epstein’s predatory circle: Sen. George Mitchell, Sen. Bill Richardson and Glenn Dubin (who all of whom refuted her accusations).
And to win, what’s more…..
Epstein would not have faced the music in 2019 had it not been for Virginia.
When Virginia joined a class action lawsuit against Epstein in late 2014 and named names, including Ghislaine Maxwell’s, Maxwell fought back, accusing her of being a liar. That was when the infamous photograph of Maxwell, Giuffre and Prince Andrew was shoved back into circulation, having been out there briefly, once before in 2011.
In response, Virginia sued Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation – and, although the case was settled, it was the discovery in this litigation, that wound up being the backbone of the 2019 criminal case against Epstein – and, later, after he died without facing a trial – Maxwell.
When I sat through Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial I wrote how the ghost of Virginia hung over the courtroom, even though she was not called as a witness, because, Maxwell’s defense would likely have used her as a distraction, given that one of the four victims on the stand, Carolyn Andriano, who later sadly died of an overdose, said that it was Giuffre and not Maxwell, who first recruited her into Epstein’s dark orbit.
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Whatever else he may be, Trump is a genius at flooding the zone. I know I am not the only person whose mind is addled right now due to the speed and volume of executive orders and pronouncements tumbling out of the White House. There’s no time to give each startling development the focus and attention it deserves, because right on its heels there’s something fresher, bolder – and more frightening.
I disagree – most respectfully – with Trump biographer Michael Wolff, Monday’s guest, who said during our interview that he believes the modus operandi behind the cacophony of sound coming out of the White House is chaotic and disorganized. I’d posit that, based on my reporting – with the exception of the flip-flop on tariffs, which was clearly unanticipated – the messaging is highly organized with the precise objective of making our heads spin. The chaos is real – but it’s us who are bumping up and down in the turbulence, not Trump.
With all that in mind, I want to refocus today’s newsletter on Russia – precisely because it’s gotten buried amid the current bombardment of directives testing our Constitution.
Today ought to be a day of global historical importance: the final day of the 30-day “ceasefire” Trump proudly told us he had brokered between Russia and Ukraine as a prelude to peace talks, and which Ukraine agreed to on March 11th. It was supposed to begin on March 18th after a phone call between Trump and Putin.
Except. Wait. There has been no ceasefire.
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