“My soul has longed for justice for years and today the jury has returned it to me,” she said.
Wednesday, December 29, in the wake of the verdict rendered by the Manhattan court recognizing Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of sex crimes in the context of the Epstein case, Virginia Giuffre, one of the alleged victims, took to Twitter to express her joy.
“I will always remember that day,” added the 38-year-old American.
Having lived through the horrors of Maxwell's abuse, I am wholeheartedly with the many other girls and young women who suffered at her hands and whose lives she destroyed. "
On trial against Prince Andrew
In a second tweet, Virginia Giuffre, who claims to have been the victim, between 2000 and 2002 and from the age of 16, of the vast sex trafficking for which the financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged and imprisoned, writes: "I hope that today is not the end but rather a new stage in the fact that justice is done.
Maxwell did not act alone.
Others must be held accountable.
I have faith in what they will be. "
The Epstein affair indeed involves several celebrities.
Among them, Prince Andrew, whom the American accuses of sexual assault when she was 17 years old.
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Virginia Giuffre thus seized the Manhattan federal court on August 9 and filed a complaint against the Duke of York, "one of the powerful men" to whom she claims to have been "handed over for sexual purposes".
She accuses him of having "sexually assaulted" her on three occasions: in London at Ghislaine Maxwell's, and in the properties of Jeffrey Epstein in New York and in the Virgin Islands.
Charges that the son of Elizabeth II denies outright.
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