Who was Virginia Giuffre and what role did she play in civil litigation related to Jeffrey Epstein?

Virginia Giuffre, also known as Virginia Roberts, was a key figure in the civil litigation related to Jeffrey Epstein. She alleged in a sworn affidavit that at age 17, she had been sexually trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for their own use and for use by several others, including Prince Andrew and retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz EFTA00265510. Giuffre claimed that Epstein, Maxwell, and others had physically and sexually abused her, and that she had served as Epstein’s sex slave from 1999 to 2002, recruiting other underage girls EFTA00266219. Giuffre filed a defamation suit against Dershowitz EFTA00265446 and also sued Maxwell for defamation in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015, which was settled in her favor with Maxwell paying her “millions” EFTA00265448. Giuffre’s allegations and lawsuits played a significant role in the civil litigation related to Epstein, including the case of Two Jane Does v. United States, where a judge ruled that federal prosecutors had violated the law by failing to notify victims before allowing Epstein to plead guilty to only two Florida offenses EFTA00265999.