An alleged intercourse slave of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell was additionally raped as a baby — a declare the disgraced British socialite’s lawyers went to nice lengths to discredit, courtroom information present.
Maxwell’s attorneys accused Virginia Giuffre, now 36, of constructing “false” rape allegations to Palm Beach police when she was a younger teen, a couple of yr earlier than she met Maxwell and Epstein.
The ways, which included forcing Giuffre to reveal her whole medical historical past, surfaced in a trove of lately unsealed courtroom paperwork in a now settled 2015 civil defamation case.
In addition to accusing Giuffre of “crying rape” as a younger lady, Giuffre’s reps steered the police information have been wrongly obtained to start with.
“Police stories documenting the sexual assault of kids should not publicly obtainable in Florida,” a lawyer for Giuffre wrote to his opposition. “Your failure to reply to these requests signifies that it’s potential the police stories you relied upon . . . have been procured by improper means by whichever particular person furnished you with them.”
Maxwell’s lawyer additionally demanded Giuffre’s medical information courting again to 1999, courtroom papers say. These included the names of 15 medical professionals, together with a psychiatrist in Australia, the place Giuffre now lives together with her husband and three youngsters.
Giuffre has claimed that Maxwell, 58, sexually assaulted her and turned her right into a intercourse slave for Epstein, starting when she was 15 years previous. She has repeatedly claimed she was made to have intercourse with Prince Andrew thrice between 2001 and 2002, an allegation the royal vehemently denies.
Maxwell, 58, who additionally denies any wrongdoing, was arrested final month in New Hampshire and is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn lock-up.
Another trove of paperwork associated to Maxwell’s intercourse life and her alleged crimes that was scheduled to be launched on Monday will probably be saved secret, an appeals courtroom dominated Friday. The paperwork will probably be saved secret till Sept. 22 when the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals hears Maxwell’s attraction.