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Case 18-2868, Document 281, 08/09/2019, 2628234, Page60 of 66 MS. GIUFFRE’S STATEMENT CONTROVERTING DEFENDANT’S FACTS Defendant’s characterization of these activities are out of context and thus misleading. In 2008, Ms. Giuffre received a Victim Notification Letter from the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida, see McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 30, GIUFFRE0010202, regarding her sexual victimization by Epstein. Thereafter, in 2011, she sought psychological counseling from a psychologist for the trauma she endured. Also that year, journalist Sharon Churcher sought her out, and traveled half way around the globe to interview her on painful subjects. Ms. Giuffre was interviewed by the FBI in 2011. See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 31, FBI Redacted 302 GIUFFRE01235-1246. She was also getting psychological help. See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 38, Lightfoot Records, GIUFFRE005431-005438. In that situation, Ms. Giuffre began to draft a fictionalized account of what happened to her. It was against this backdrop of her trauma being unearthed, her steps to seek psychological counseling for it, that she drafted this manuscript. Doing so was an act of empowerment and a way of reframing and taking control over the narrative of her past abuse that haunts her. “Writing ‘I’ has been an emancipatory project for women.” Perreault, Jeanne, “AUTOGRAPHY/ TRANSFORMATION/ ASYMMETRY,” Women, Autobiography, Theory A Reader edited by Sidonie Smith & Julia Watson. Indeed, scholars have written that the act of engaging in autobiography or even accounts loosely based on autobiography, is a process of taking control of one’s own narrative and one’s own self: “Thus a specific recitation of identity involves the inclusion of certain identity contents and the exclusion of others; the incorporation of certain narrative itineraries and internationalities, the silencing of others; the adoption of certain autobiographical voices, the muting of others.” Smith, Sidonie, PERFORMATIVITY, 60