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Case 18-2868, Document 287, 08/09/2019, 2628251, Page64 of 76
where plaintiff had ceased being an adulterer but had
“unabashedly committed adultery” for thirteen of seventeen
years). Finally, there are “those cases in which a defendant
simply asks too much in asserting that a statement is
substantially true because the difference between the two is
plainly substantial.” Jewell, 23 F. Supp. at 368. For example,
the court in Da Silva, 908 F. Supp. at 186-87, held that a
photograph of plaintiff which identified her as a prostitute was
not substantially true where the plaintiff had been a prostitute
for some six years but was not at the time of publication.
After reviewing this spectrum of cases, the facts upon
which Maxwell bases her argument are insufficient to allow this
Court to find substantial truth as a matter of law. A material
dispute of fact exists as to the “admitted truth” or the
“reality” in this case. Maxwell has cited to various facts to
counter Giuffre’s claims, such as Giuffre’s high school
enrollment, short-term jobs, and lack of record on private
flight logs during some of the relevant time period, as evidence
that Maxwell and Epstein did not abuse Giuffre. The details and
significance of the facts offered are highly contested, and
therefore cannot establish the “substantial truth” of the Press
Release. “[R]easonable jurors could conclude that the statements
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