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Case 18-2868, Document 280, 08/09/2019, 2628232, Page58 of 74 States Supreme Court, and reiterated by the Second Circuit, should be the light by which all of Defendant’s purported “facts” and argument should be viewed. “Actual malice” means that the statement was published with “knowledge that the statement was ‘false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.’” Baiul v. Disson, 607 F. App'x 18, 20 (2d Cir. 2015), quoting New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 280, 84S. Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964). Defendant argues that Ms. Giuffre is a limited purpose public figure. While Ms. Giuffre disputes that claim, the issue is entirely irrelevant here because Ms. Giuffre will prove at trial, with overwhelming evidence, that Defendant made her statement calling Ms. Giuffre a liar with malice, fully knowing — as a sex trafficker — that it was false. Put another way, Defendant knew that Ms. Giuffre was telling the truth when she described how Defendant recruited her for sex as an underage girl and then sexually trafficked her with her boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. The Second Circuit instructs that, “[o]n a motion for summary judgment, a court cannot try issues of fact; it can only determine whether there are issues to be tried. If, as to the issue on which summary judgment is sought, there is any evidence in the record from any source from which a reasonable inference could be drawn in favor of the nonmoving party, summary judgment is improper.” Chambers v. TRM Copy Ctrs. Corp., 43 F.3d 29, 37 (2d Cir. 1994) (internal citations and quotations omitted). “As the moving party, Defendants have the burden of demonstrating an absence of clear and convincing evidence substantiating Plaintiffs’ claims.” De Sole v. Knoedler Gallery, LLC, 139 F. Supp. 3d 618, 640 (S.D.N.Y. 2015) (citing Chambers). Defendant fails to meet her burden of demonstrating an absence of clear and convincing evidence substantiating Ms. Giuffre’s claims that Defendant acted with actual malice. Ms. Giuffre will easily be able to meet any trial burden of clear and convincing evidence of actual 50