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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rachel Hall

Virginia Giuffre’s story of abuse exposes impunity of powerful men, UK experts say

Virginia Giuffre stands in front of dozens of microphones
Virginia Giuffre, seen speaking to reporters in 2019, wrote that Epstein’s view of girls and women is not uncommon among powerful men. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP

Virginia Giuffre’s latest revelations are a “mirror held up to a system” that still enables powerful men to groom, abuse and exploit women with impunity, women’s rights campaigners have said.

Excerpts from Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, which were released ahead of the book’s publication next week, lay bare how Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell took advantage of their position of power to manipulate and groom Giuffre.

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