DOJ-OGR-00021612.pdf

Case 22-1426, Document 78, 06/29/2023, 3536039, Page182 of 217 SA-436 M6SQmaxS1 67 1 will feel all of us standing behind her. Thank you. 2 THE COURT: Thank you. 3 I will hear the statement from counsel for Virginia 4 Roberts. 5 VIRGINIA ROBERTS COUNSEL: Good afternoon, your Honor. 6 May it please the Court, this statement I am reading 7 on behalf of my client, Virginia Giuffre, is written to 8 Ghislaine Maxwell. 9 Ghislaine: 22 years ago in the summer of 2000, you 10 spotted me at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and you made a choice: 11 You chose to follow me and procure me for Epstein. Just hours 12 later, you and he abused me together for the first time. 13 Together you damaged me physically, mentally, sexually and 14 emotionally. Together you did unthinkable things that still 15 have a corrosive impact on me to this day. 16 I want to be clear about one thing: Without question, 17 Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile, but I never would 18 have met Jeffrey Epstein if not for you. For me, and for so 19 many others, you opened the door to hell, and then, Ghislaine, 20 like a wolf in sheep's clothing, you used your femininity to 21 betray us and you led us all through it. When you did that, 22 you changed the course of our lives forever. You joked that 23 you were like a new mother to us. As a woman, I think you 24 understood the damage that you were causing, the price you were 25 making us victims pay. You could have put an end to the rapes, SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00021612