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Extraction Summary
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People
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Document Information
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News article / web printout
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2.59 MB
Summary
This document is a printout of a Daily Mail article dated March 16, 2011, recounting Virginia's (Giuffre) experiences with Jeffrey Epstein. It details how Epstein sent her to Thailand for massage school in 2002, where she met and married her husband, Robert. The text outlines the subsequent FBI investigation, the discovery of hidden cameras at Epstein's Palm Beach home, and lawyer Brad Edwards' criticism of Epstein's lenient plea deal.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Virginia | Victim/Interviewee |
Discusses her grooming by Epstein, marriage to Robert, and cooperation with the FBI.
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| Jeffrey Epstein | Perpetrator |
Referred to as 'The tycoon' and 'Jeffrey'; funded Virginia's trip to Thailand; investigated by FBI; took Fifth Amendm...
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| Robert | Husband |
Australian martial arts expert who married Virginia in Thailand.
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| Prince Andrew | Associate |
Mentioned in header and final paragraph regarding a photograph that triggered memories for Virginia.
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| Brad Edwards | Lawyer |
Represented several of Epstein's victims; criticized the leniency of Epstein's sentence.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| FBI |
Investigated Epstein, contacted Virginia regarding photos found at Palm Beach house.
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| The Mail on Sunday |
News outlet conducting the interview/reporting.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Document source (implied by Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT').
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Locations (4)
| Location | Context |
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Where Epstein flew Virginia for her 19th birthday and where she met her husband.
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Epstein's residence where hidden cameras were discovered.
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Mentioned in context of age of consent laws.
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Mentioned in the header.
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Relationships (3)
Virginia describes being groomed, traded out, and watched by hidden cameras.
Header mentions Andrew met him; photo of them together triggered memories for Virginia.
Key Quotes (5)
"Have a nice life"Source
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"No man wants to know his wife has been traded out."Source
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"[Epstein had] hidden cameras watching me the entire time even when I was in the bathroom."Source
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"Rather than punish him the way they would an average Joe, they sent a clear message that with enough money and power and influence, the system can be bought."Source
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"He took the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer, indicating that if he were to answer the question, it could be incriminating"Source
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Prince Andrew and girl, 17, who sex offender friend flew to Britain to meet him | Mail ... Page 13 of 17
monthly payment, a percentage of his income.'
This, finally, was a wake-up call to Virginia and she began to see the way in which she had been groomed.
'It was a smack in the face,' she says. 'I finally realised this wasn't ever going to be a real relationship but I knew if I refused, I'd be thrown back on the streets. So I said, "I'm too young. I want to get my massage credentials, then maybe we'll do it".'
The tycoon took her at her word and, for her 19th birthday in August 2002, flew her to Thailand where he enrolled her in a massage course.
Shortly after arriving there, she met an Australian martial arts expert called Robert. They fell in love and, just ten days later, married in a Buddhist ceremony.
'I called Jeffrey and told him I'd fallen madly in love,' Virginia says. 'I was hoping he'd be delighted. But he said, "Have a nice life," and hung up on me.' The couple now have two sons, aged five and four, and a daughter who recently turned one.
'The first few months after I married Robert were the worst,' she says. 'I couldn't bring myself to tell him much. No man wants to know his wife has been traded out.
'I felt very alone. I was having panic attacks and seeing a psychiatrist and was on anti-depressants.
' Virginia was beginning to put her Epstein days behind her when, three years ago, she was phoned by the FBI.
'They said they had found photos of me at Jeffrey's Palm Beach house,' she says. '[Epstein had] hidden cameras watching me the entire time even when I was in the bathroom. I was so embarrassed.
'I told the FBI that my true purpose was sexual. They told me everything he did was illegal because I was under age.' (The age of consent in Florida is 18).
'They said that if it had to go to trial, they'd need me because I'd lived with him and that made me a key witness. I was very afraid, because he had so much power, but eventually I agreed to testify.
I was glad he'd finally been found out. He shouldn't be hurting other girls. Following Epstein's arrest, investigators are believed to have found a list of men's names on his computer and asked him whether they had been 'treated' to sexual encounters with his menage of minors.
'He took the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer, indicating that if he were to answer the question, it could be incriminating,' a source told The Mail on Sunday.
Epstein struck a deal resulting in what commentators characterised as a 'slap on the wrist' for him, and ended up serving 13 months of his sentence, much of it in a liberal work-release programme Lawyer Brad Edwards, who represented several of Epstein's victims, said: 'Rather than punish him the way they would an average Joe, they sent a clear message that with enough money and power and influence, the system can be bought.'
Virginia was spared her the humiliation of having to go before a jury, and has kept her feelings bottled up until last weekend's photograph of Andrew with Epstein triggered distressing memories.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361039/Prince-Andrew-girl-17-sex-offender-frie... 3/16/2011
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