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Case 22-1426, Document ON AEG 3536039, Page182 of 217 67 M6SOmaxsl will feel all of us standing behind her. Thank you. THE COURT: Thank you. I will hear the statement from counsel for Virginia Roberts. VIRGINIA ROBERTS COUNSEL: Good afternoon, your Honor. May it please the Court, this statement I am reading 1S written to on behalf of my client, Virginia Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine: 22 years ago in the summer of 2000, you spotted me at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and you made a choice: You chose to follow me and procure me for Epstein. Just hours first time. later, you and he abused me together for the Together you damaged me physically, mentally, sexually and emotionally. Together you did unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me to this day. Without I want to be clear about one thing: question, Je rey Epstein was a terrible pedophile, but I never would met Jeffrey hav Epstein if not for you. For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell, and then, Ghislaine, 20 a1 22 23 24 25 like a wolf in sheep's clothing, you used betray us and you led us all through it. our lives you changed the course of forever. your feminin When you did You joke you were like a new mother to us. understood the damage making us victims pay. AS a woman, that you were causing, think the price SOUTHE RN D STRICT REPORTERS, 12) 805-0300 PeGu 0 ity to that, d that you you were You could have put an end to the rapes, DOJ-OGR-00021612