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be N Ww ws Oo OY ~] oO WO a oO = be N Ww = Hs Oo a OY a ~] a oO a Ke) 20 21 22 23 24 25 Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 53 Filed 09/03/19 Page 56 of 86 56 J8RPEPS2 MS. GIUFFRE: Good morning, your Honor. THE COURT: Good morning. How are you? MS. GIUFFRE: Okay. Thank you. My name is Virginia Roberts Giuffre, that's V-i-r-g-i-n-i-a, Roberts, R-o-b r-t-s, Giuffre, G-i-u, double F, for Fred, -r-e. am a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the dark and cru el and criminal acts they committed against me and hundreds of years and years, un Thank you truth. speak the District of New Yor other girls and young women for years and stopped. for allowing me to address the Court and commend the prosecutors from the Southern k for the ongoing investigation and its It has given me hope, pursuit of justice for us victims. will not let go of that hope. When I was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago, just before I was 17, I thought break, and real massage therap dreams were stolen. I'd be able to reset my lift ist. My hopes were quickly dashed, Jeffrey Epstein is no longer alive, I was given a big fe and become an actual and my but and I this is not about how he died. This is about how he lived. He will not have his day in court, of accountability has begun, brave and beautiful women in this courtroom reckoning must not end. It must continue. alone and we, the victims, know that. We tr supported by the voices of today. but the reckoning these The He did not act ust the government SOUTHERN D STR (212) CT REPORTERS, 805-0300 PG ew DOJ-OGR-00000694