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10 a4. 12 13 14 15 L6 Ly 1s Lg 20 Zs 22 23 24 25 Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1325-18 Filed 01/04/24 Page 9 of 23 GLETGIUA complaint. Your Honor, this is an actionable defamation case. Fortunately for women who have been abused in this manner, the law of defamation stands by their side. It does not allow someone to publically proclaim they're a liar and issue character assaults on them without ramifications. After those statements were made, we filed this defamation lawsuit. Virginia Giuffre was only 15 years old when she was recruited by Maxwell to be sexually abused by both Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who is a convicted pedophile and billionaire. She was harmed for many years before she finally found her way to Thailand and escaped clear to Australia where she hid out for ten years before the FBI interviewed her and she made her statement public. Your Honor, this is a very serious case of abuse. My client never sued Ms. Maxwell until she came out and called her a liar publically for claiming her allegations of sexual abuse were false. That's actionable defamation. We have seen that in cases recently, and I will walk you through those. Now while this story may sound hard to believe, it happened, and there were over 30 female childhood victims in Florida alone that came forward and gave statements to law enforcement about this same type of abuse. Unfortunately, due to Epstein's vast wealth and power, he was able to get off with a very light sentence. And his SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300