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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1332-10 Filed 01/08/24 Page 39 of 64 38
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don't see how anyone could look at that sentence, "these are
obvious lies," and not see an opinion here. Because what is an
obvious lie? That is purely subject to opinion. It certainly
can't be proven true or false what is obvious. I would suggest
to the Court that the hand-out that I gave titled "Two examples
of Plaintiff Giuffre's original and new allegations" is an
example of where there are obvious lies.
Now, moving back to this question of what the
plaintiff's heavy burden is, they have to prove by clear and
convincing evidence —-- and we set out what the standard is in
the Southern District of New York in our papers what clear and
convincing is —- they have to prove falsity and they have to
prove actual malice, actual malice being that Ms. Maxwell, when
that January 2015 statement was issued, knew that those three
sentences were false or had been published anyway through Mr.
Gow with reckless disregard to whether they were false or not.
For the Court's benefit, what we tried to do to make
this point more salient is, rather than have the Court wade
through the hundreds of pages of materials the plaintiff
submitted, we look at it from the converse angle, and that is,
are there at least two allegations? I use two because am
trying to follow the Foster case, and I am trying to show
literal truth or literal falsity, and allegations plural means
two or more. So if I can find two occasions when this
plaintiff has told falsehoods, or has said something that would
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