David Boies, left, attorney for Virginia Giuffre, right pictured with Prince Andrew, on the Piers Morgan show after her death
By Dan Murphy
I admire both Virginia Giuffre and David Boies. Virginia, who died at the age of 41 last week, was one of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein who brought the sexual horrors that she and many underage women had to endure from Epstein and his friends and fellow perverts into the public spotlight.
The courage of Virginia Giuffre, to take the public attacks against her by those who did not believe her or wanted to discredit her for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, is powerful.
But we also thank David Boies for representing Virginia Giuffre and in our view, brining instant crediblity to her allegations. Boies, who lives in Armonk, is one of the most famous and successful litigation attorneys in the country.
Boies is not known for representing victims or criminal defendants. But he came forward to represent Virginia Giuffre, and helped force a settlement from Prince Andrew of England who is seen with Virginia in the photo above. A photo, by the way, that Prince Andrew refuses to acknowledge is real.
Giuffre recounted having sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17. The settlement of a New York lawsuit was reportedly for $16 Million, paid for by Queen Elizabeth in 2022.
With the help of Boies standing beside her, Giuffre was able to stand up to Prince Andrew and his royal family, money and attorneys until the Prince had two choices; testify at trial and risk perjury or settle the case.
When Prince Andrew settled his case with Virginia, most of the world finally realized what had happened. Giuffre was speaking the truth and calling out the crimes of sex abuse against minors. It wasn’t a popular topic of discussion, child sex abuse never is.
In 2010, Giuffre came forward with her allegations, and in 2024 she created a non profit, Victims Refuse Silence.
David Boies appeared on the Piers Morgan Show after Giuffre’s death. “There is sadness and anger that our society let this happen. She was an extrordinary strong woman who was ultimately brought down by years of abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and then years of verbal abuse and attacks by her collaborators.
“Without her courage and without her coming forward, Jeffrey Epstein would probably still be abusing young girls. “
“When she came to me in 2014, she knew that this would bring a crushing amount of abuse on her head from Epstein and his powerful collaborators. I wanted to be sure that she was correct in everything so I had her go through a rigorus examination and a polygraph test. I never had any doubts after that.
Morgan: “You worked on Virginia’s case for free.”
Boies: “She couldn’t afford the kind of representation she needed, not only from me, but from the firm and attorney Sigrid McCawley.”
“This was one of the most gravest injustices our system has seen and nobody was doing anything about it. She epitomizes the triumph of the human spirit to become a passionate, strong, courageous advocate for the vulnerable. She dedicated the last 11 years of her life fighting to make sure that other children didn’t have to go through what she went through.
“Virginia had hoped that Prince Andrew would take responsibility and I think he needs to take responsiblity for what he did. If he wants forgiveness he has to take responsibility.”
“I think that while we’ve made tremendous progress in exposing the evil of sex trafficking there is still a perception bias among most of society including the prosecutors and the media that looks down on the girls who are trafficked, a sense that somehow this must have been there fault.
“They don’t think of them as their sister or wife or daughter or girlfriend. I think if you had what happened to Virginia and the many other Epstein victims had happened to professional woman, you would have had a different reaction from prosecutors and the media. This is one of the tragedies for our legal system, that we have devalued the humanity of these young girls,” said Boies.
Watch the interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm-ouSZnC-E&t=480s
