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10 ais L 13 14 15 16 LL 18 19 20 21 2a ag 24 25 Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1325-18 Filed 01/04/24 Page 16 of 23 7% GLETGIUA she has been doing. She has been harmed personally by saying her claims are, quote, obvious lies, and she has been hurt professionally in that manner, and we allege both things in our complaint. Your Honor, Virginia has been beaten down many times in her life, but the law of defamation stands at her side. I pray upon you that you will consider the complaint and not dismiss it, because her claims should be able to be proven in this Court. Thank you. THE COURT: Thank you very much. Anything further? MS. MENNINGER: If I may, your Honor. Again, plaintiff comes before you claiming she has been called a liar. There is no statement attributed to my client, in the complaint or elsewhere, in which my client has called plaintiff a liar. There are three sentence fragments contained in the complaint, the allegations against Ms. Maxwell are untrue, and that her claims are obvious lies. Your Honor, it is a meaningful distinction. I can explain a little bit of the background here. Plaintiff came forward and gave an interview in the press in 2011 claiming that my client was somehow involved with Mr. Epstein's sexual abuse of her. She gave an exclusive interview to a British newspaper in which she made that allegation, plaintiff did, and was paid for it. SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300