'A monster': Epstein victim’s author demands total transparency from Trump administration
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Before she committed suicide on April 25 at the age of 41, Virginia Giuffre — one of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's victims — detailed her ordeal in the book, "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," which was published posthumously on October 21.
"Nobody's Girl" was ghostwritten by journalist Amy Wallace, who described her work on the book during a Wednesday morning, October 22 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Wallace told host Mika Brzezinski and others on the panel — including the Rev. Al Sharpton and journalists Molly Jong-Fast and Jonathan Lemire — "You make the perfect point, which is this did not die with Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell, however that occurred. This is alive and well in our culture generally. And Virginia was trafficked to at least a dozen, if not dozens of men. So, those guys are walking around. If they're alive, they're walking around, and they have never been held to account. She has accused them to the FBI."
Brzezinski noted that Giuffre, in the book, "makes no mention of" President Donald Trump, adding, "But if anybody in Congress wants to cover this up, doesn't want to see and reveal what happened here and take action, check out this book. And then look in the mirror."
Wallace stressed that members of Congress "need to do their job" and release the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) files on Epstein.
"Law enforcement needs to do their job," Wallace told Brzezinski. "The Department of Justice needs to do its job. The files exist. The burden should not be on these women to repeat and repeat and repeat. They've already said what happened, and their testimony is in those files. Arguably, perhaps probably, there are also videotapes in those files."
Wallace continued, "You know, they raided his Manhattan townhouse. You know, the whole idea behind having cameras in every room in that house was to get men on tape, in compromising positions, and use it for whatever Epstein wanted. So theoretically, you can see who those people are if there are videotapes. And I don't have any special knowledge of what's inside the Epstein files, as we are now calling them. They're voluminous."
During the interview, Wallace emphasized that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell—now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence — was far from an innocent bystander in Epstein's crimes and was quite complicit in them.
"I will point out that this narrative about Ghislaine has sort of morphed into the fact that she was sort of a receptionist that just kept the date book on who was coming in and out," Wallace told Brzezinski. "She not only procured, which is evil in itself, but she sexually degraded and abused these girls herself. She said, 'Come over here and sexually service me.' She hurt them during sex. She used sex toys to inflict pain on them sexually. So, this woman is a monster. And the idea that anybody is even sort of bandying about this idea that we're going to pardon her — maybe if it occurs to us, we might do it — is an abomination. I mean, she's convicted in a court of law."