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Originally Posted by victoryformation
I have not read her (ghost-written) NY Times bestseller!
But anyone out there feel free to answer any of these 3 questions!
1) During her 3 years of sex slavery under Epstein and Maxwell... why didn't she ever try to escape? 3 years, didn't she ever run into a member of law enforcement!
2) Why was someone who had a front row seat to the whole Epstein/Maxwell enterprise ... and wrote a book about it ... why was she a no-show during her capture's trial?
3)Why was the trafficked sex slave ...a recruiter herself?
Anyone out there ... please feel free to proffer any plausible answers to these 3 questions!
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Based on your other posts about her, I doubt you're really asking this in good faith, but I'll give it a go just on the off-chance that you are.
1) “Why didn’t she escape?”
It usually isn’t as simple as just walking away. In a lot of these situations, people are controlled through a mix of pressure, manipulation, dependence, and fear — not just being physically held somewhere.
From her own accounts, she was pretty immature (can't mention age due to forum rules) and not exactly in a position to fully understand what she was getting pulled into at the time. Once you’re in that environment — especially with money, housing, travel, and powerful people involved — leaving isn’t always a straightforward option the way it might seem from the outside.
2) “Why wasn’t she at the trial?”
She actually gave a lot of statements over the years, including depositions and civil cases.
In a criminal trial, it’s ultimately up to prosecutors who they call to testify in person. Not everyone ends up on the stand — sometimes prior testimony is used, and sometimes it’s just a strategic choice about how to present the case.
3) “Why was she also a recruiter?”
This is something that comes up a lot in these kinds of situations. People can end up being pressured into bringing others in, sometimes to normalize what’s going on, sometimes to stay in good standing, sometimes just because they’ve been conditioned over time. There are numerous examples of this.
It doesn’t make the situation less exploitative — it’s often part of how the whole thing keeps going.
You don’t have to take everything at face value, but those explanations line up pretty closely with how these situations are usually described.
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Originally Posted by victoryformation
Since when is a dragooned sex slave flown on a private jet, picked up by a stretch limo and paid $15,000 for a quickie?
There's a very good reason why Virginia Giuffre was MIA during the Maxwell trial!
Could you imagine if THAT inconvenient fact emerged during cross examination?
(If I was a mendacious storyteller ...I'd be deathly afraid to take the stand, too!)
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So your argument is that if money or perks are involved, it can’t be exploitative?
That’s… a pretty convenient definition.
