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Case 18-2868, Document 280, 08/09/2019, 2628232, Page10 of 74 finding that her defamatory press release was actually a legal opinion, issued not by her, but by her lawyer, to the media, despite documentary evidence showing otherwise. Defendant also argues that she has proven the truth of her statement calling Ms. Giuffre a liar with respect to the statements Ms. Giuffre made about Defendant. To the contrary, voluminous evidence, both documentary and testimonial from numerous witnesses, corroborate Ms. Giuffre’s account of Defendant’s involvement in the sexual abuse and trafficking of Ms. Giuffre. Just to briefly highlight a few, Johanna Sjoberg, testified that Defendant recruited her under the guise of a legitimate assistant position, but asked her to perform sexual massages for Epstein, and punished her when she didn’t cause Epstein to orgasm.! Tony Figueroa testified that Defendant contacted him to recruit high school-aged girls for Epstein, and also testified that Maxwell and Epstein participated in multiple threesomes with Virginia Giuffre. Even more shockingly, the butler for Defendant’s close friend witnessed, first-hand, a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl crying and shaking because Defendant was attempting to force her to have sex with Epstein and she refused. This is a fraction of the testimony that will be elicited at trial about Defendant’s involvement in the sexual abuse and trafficking of Ms. Giuffre. Defendant’s primary argument in support of her contention that she did not abuse and traffic Ms. Giuffre as a minor child is that employment records show that Ms. Giuffre was either sixteen or seventeen when Defendant recruited her from her job at Mar-a-Lago for sex with Epstein, not fifteen-years-old as Plaintiff originally thought. Call this the ““yes-I’m-a-sex- trafficker-but-only-of-sixteen-year-old-girls” defense. Defendant does not explain why sexual abuse of a fifteen year old differs in any material way from sexual abuse of a sixteen or seventeen year old. All instances involve a minor child, who cannot consent, and who is 'See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 16, Sjoberg Dep. Tr. at 8:5-10; 13:1-3; 12:17-14:3; 15:1-5; 32:9-16; 34:5-35:1; 36:2-1.