WASHINGTON − The family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent and outspoken sex trafficking accusers, demanded answers over why President Donald Trump said the disgraced financier "stole" Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa – and have called for Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to remain in prison.
In a lengthy July 30 statement, the family of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, said, “It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago."
“It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey ‘likes women on the younger side … no doubt about it,’" the family's comment, given to USA TODAY July 31, said. "We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this.”
Trump and Epstein were friends for more than a decade in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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