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The appalling Virginia Giuffre 3 Weeks, 6 Days ago
Clearly a professional victim as well as a consensual hooker - damned by her own words but not a word of criticism in The Times and the online version has now disappeared "for legal reasons".
Re:The appalling Virginia Giuffre 3 Weeks, 6 Days ago
The media lapped up her stories and didn't criticise her when she was alive (though the Mail came close), so I suspect they'll be even less likely to criticise her now that she's dead. She seems to have won. But maybe she was a victim of domestic violence if there was an incident recorded as such by US police in 2015.
She added her husband was drinking most days from 8am in the morning, and in her most recent diary from this year said he was no longer employed and was 'gambling away' their money.
I came across a photo of her online some time ago, with a pint of beer in one hand and playing a gambling machine. From a paywalled Sydney Morning Herald article in the Google results list for "Virginia Giuffre" "playing the pokies": "Woman's Day photographed the young family in Cairns last year, capturing covert shots of Roberts Giuffre drinking beer and playing the pokies at..."
Woman's Day was one of the news outlets that published a paid interview with Rolf Harris's Australian accuser airing her allegations about him.
... Ms Giuffre's brothers, Sky and Daniel, told The Times that she had always been "incredibly proud of herself" for having "toppled the [late] Queen of England’s favourite son".
Her sister, Amanda Roberts, told the outlet: "When people told her ‘no’, or people told her they wouldn’t believe her, or that she was crazy, she would say ‘Watch me’." ...
Re:The appalling Virginia Giuffre 3 Weeks, 5 Days ago
That's a sad article.
Great points, hedda. The media should have investigated how she was helping victims, not just take the claims at face value. But it seems pretty unlikely they'll do so now.
The article says her brother and sister-in law "have taken up Virginia’s mantel [sic] with the charity Soar, campaigning across the US to help pass legislation to help protect the victims of abuse" and has a photo of them standing at a lecturn with people behind them holding banners saying "New York pass A101/S54" and "intoxication is not consent". But the SOAR website looks as moribund as ever and hasn't been updated to take account of Virginia Giuffre's death.
The family of sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre have launched a public fundraiser in her memory, because they expect it will take years to divide up her rich estate.
They are seeking to raise $15,000 to build a memorial in her memory that will be open for the public to visit. ...
Her family, anticipating a drawn-out process of dividing her assets, have launched a GoFundMe appeal for the mother-of-three in the meantime so she can have a 'permanent mark in this world'. ... GoFundMe - Honor Virginia: A Legacy for Justice Only 8% of the target has been raised.
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