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Case 18-2868, Document 280, 08/09/2019, 2628232, Page65 of 74 Defendant, by way of her January 2015 statement, declared that Ms. Giuffre lied about each and every one of these allegations regarding Defendant. In fact, Defendant clarified further this position in her deposition when she said repeatedly that everything Ms. Giuffre said about Defendant was totally false.” The clarification in her deposition is identical in intention to the reasonable interpretation of her statement that Defendant made publicly, which has formed the basis of this defamation action—that Ms. Giuffre was lying about everything she said about Defendant, and that Defendant was not at all involved in the activity she was accused of engaging in. While her public statement could not have been more clear, as her deposition testimony further underscored, Defendant intended the world to believe that nothing Ms. Giuffre said about Defendant was true, and that Defendant was not at all involved with any of the things she was accused of, Defendant has decided in this motion to minutely dissect the nuance of Ms. Giuffre’s various statements to cause the Court to reach a far-fetched conclusion that Defendant’s insidiously false statement was somehow “substantially true.” Ironically, this repositioning amounts to nothing more than an admission by Defendant of the defamatory nature of her statement. A. When Ms. Giuffre Initially Described Her Encounters With Defendant and Epstein, She Mistakenly Believed the First Encounter Occurred During the Year 1999, Discovery has resulted in the production of records, including Ms. Giuffre’s employment records from Mar-a-Lago, which she did not possess at the time she was recounting her interactions with Defendant. Those records establish that the initial encounter wherein Defendant recruited Ms. Giuffre occurred during the year 2000 and not during 1999. Ms. Giuffre was » See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 11, Maxwell 4-22-2016 Dep. Tr. at 135:3-4; 178:15-178:24; 179:20-180:7; 228:7- 229:10. 57