There’s been a BIG update in the Alan Dershowitz/Epstein trafficking case. A woman named Virginia Giuffre, who Jeffrey Epstein enslaved, claimed that he trafficked her to none other than the highly respected, famed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. This set off a whirlwind of bad press, angst, and ridicule against Dersh, who has always maintained his innocence, in a very vigorous way.
Now, that same woman, who turned Alan’s world upside down, is saying she made a mistake.
Breitbart reported:
Alan Dershowitz has won a years-long battle to clear his name, after a woman who claimed that she was coerced into having sex with him by the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein retracted her accusation, telling a court and the media she may have been mistaken.
Breitbart News has covered the story for years, noting that Dershowitz was one of the few men accused of sexual misconduct during the “#metoo” era who defended himself vigorously in court and in the media, claiming Giuffre and her lawyers were wrong.
Dershowitz wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2015 in which he recounted the “nightmare” of false accusation, which he said left targets of such claims unable to defend themselves. “I now stand accused of crimes I did not commit, by an unnamed woman who I don’t know and never met. … I may never have the opportunity to prove my innocence or to have my accusers prove the false charges, in any court of law. … Imagine the same thing happening to a person who did not have the resources to fight back.”
He also wrote a book about his experience: Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo. And finally, the New York Times reported Tuesday, Giuffre agreed to withdraw her accusations.
The New York Times reported Tuesday:
In a joint statement announcing the settlement, Ms. Giuffre said, “I have long believed that I was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz. However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and traumatic environment, and Mr. Dershowitz has from the beginning consistently denied these allegations.
“I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz,” her statement said.
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“She has suffered much at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and I commend her work combating the evil of sex trafficking,” Mr. Dershowitz said of Ms. Giuffre in his own statement.
I understand that this woman was under a lot of stress, dealing with that ghastly lifestyle with Jeffrey Epstein, but if this is true, and she made a mistake, she really tarnished this man’s life, terribly. I know, for me, my feelings about the once well-respected Alan Dershowitz were in the gutter. I thought he was a slimeball and a pig. And then part of me thought, “Well, wonder if this isn’t true?” But even then, I still thought he was a scumbag. The dye had been cast.
That’s why accusations like this are so dangerous.
Again, I understand her trauma, but that doesn’t give her the right to create a different kind of horrific trauma in someone else’s life.
On the hand, was she telling the truth, and did she just get coerced into caving?
Honestly, we’ll probably never know.
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