[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Michael Tracey [@mtracey](/creator/twitter/mtracey) on x 345.8K followers Created: 2025-07-07 19:35:54 UTC The key Epstein "victim" who made the most sensational claims of being trafficked to powerful third-party individuals, Virginia Giuffre, was not even called by prosecutors as a witness in the 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell criminal trial -- because her credibility was in such tatters. The whole mythology around this case is largely based on the claims of one mentally unstable serial fabulist, Giuffre, who eventually had to admit in a civil settlement that she had falsely accused Alan Dershowitz of depraved sexual crimes for nearly a decade. Nonetheless, she *was* able to eventually extract a few million pounds from Prince Andrew -- the only other third-party individual she actually sued, despite naming a huge array of prominent individuals over the years with zero credible evidence, and despite having the dogged assistance of some of the most high-powered attorneys in the world. Prince Andrew was in the throes of a PR disaster after his infamous 2019 BBC interview, so opting for a settlement with Royal Family funds, rather than standing trial in the US, was probably the sensible course of action from his perspective. This was the sole third-party settlement Giuffre ever successfully reached, despite claiming she was trafficked to an extraordinary cross-section of prominent individuals including George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, Marvin Minsky, etc. (None of the women who testified in the Maxwell criminal trial claimed they were trafficked to third-parties.) Giuffre, clearly in the grips of a worsening psychological crisis, died earlier this year. Unfortunate -- but doesn't change the fact that so many of her wild, extravagant claims turned out to be totally baseless, despite serving as the evidentiary foundation for this blinkered Epstein mythology, which continues to persist despite an increasingly tenuous connection to any observable reality -- having been egged on recently by the likes of Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino, playing to the fevered imaginations of right-wing social media. The entire Epstein saga has long since turned into an enormous cashcow, with even JP Morgan settling for $XXX million simply because Epstein was a former client. The feeding-frenzy litigation has been endless, from every angle, and is still ongoing. We're supposed to believe that not one of these rich and powerful American men to whom everyone assumes Epstein must have trafficked scores of children could have been successfully sued at any point in the past 10+ years, and coerced into a generous settlement -- particularly in the context of the MeToo Mania from which this affair gained such outsized cultural notoriety? Epstein himself was clearly a dirtbag, and openly confessed to a pathological obsession with procuring teenage girls for himself, but the grander web of creepy conspiratorial intrigue that's enveloped this case -- and turned it into a weird, tantalizing, unfalsifiable mythology that won't go away -- is just an extension of the unhinged fabulism pioneered by the original accuser. XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [maxwell](/topic/maxwell) [ghislaine maxwell](/topic/ghislaine-maxwell) [ghislaine](/topic/ghislaine) [jeffrey epstein](/topic/jeffrey-epstein) [Post Link](https://x.com/mtracey/status/1942306599269433456)
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Michael Tracey @mtracey on x 345.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-07 19:35:54 UTC
The key Epstein "victim" who made the most sensational claims of being trafficked to powerful third-party individuals, Virginia Giuffre, was not even called by prosecutors as a witness in the 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell criminal trial -- because her credibility was in such tatters.
The whole mythology around this case is largely based on the claims of one mentally unstable serial fabulist, Giuffre, who eventually had to admit in a civil settlement that she had falsely accused Alan Dershowitz of depraved sexual crimes for nearly a decade. Nonetheless, she was able to eventually extract a few million pounds from Prince Andrew -- the only other third-party individual she actually sued, despite naming a huge array of prominent individuals over the years with zero credible evidence, and despite having the dogged assistance of some of the most high-powered attorneys in the world.
Prince Andrew was in the throes of a PR disaster after his infamous 2019 BBC interview, so opting for a settlement with Royal Family funds, rather than standing trial in the US, was probably the sensible course of action from his perspective. This was the sole third-party settlement Giuffre ever successfully reached, despite claiming she was trafficked to an extraordinary cross-section of prominent individuals including George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, Marvin Minsky, etc. (None of the women who testified in the Maxwell criminal trial claimed they were trafficked to third-parties.)
Giuffre, clearly in the grips of a worsening psychological crisis, died earlier this year. Unfortunate -- but doesn't change the fact that so many of her wild, extravagant claims turned out to be totally baseless, despite serving as the evidentiary foundation for this blinkered Epstein mythology, which continues to persist despite an increasingly tenuous connection to any observable reality -- having been egged on recently by the likes of Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino, playing to the fevered imaginations of right-wing social media.
The entire Epstein saga has long since turned into an enormous cashcow, with even JP Morgan settling for $XXX million simply because Epstein was a former client. The feeding-frenzy litigation has been endless, from every angle, and is still ongoing. We're supposed to believe that not one of these rich and powerful American men to whom everyone assumes Epstein must have trafficked scores of children could have been successfully sued at any point in the past 10+ years, and coerced into a generous settlement -- particularly in the context of the MeToo Mania from which this affair gained such outsized cultural notoriety?
Epstein himself was clearly a dirtbag, and openly confessed to a pathological obsession with procuring teenage girls for himself, but the grander web of creepy conspiratorial intrigue that's enveloped this case -- and turned it into a weird, tantalizing, unfalsifiable mythology that won't go away -- is just an extension of the unhinged fabulism pioneered by the original accuser.
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