Epstein Files: Vicky Ward on Her Decades of Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

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Watch Part 2 of our interview with investigative journalist Vicky Ward, who has spent decades reporting on the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, his rich and powerful associates, and the impact of his crimes.

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0:00.0	This is Democracy Now.
0:05.0	Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.
0:09.0	I'm Amy Goodman.
0:10.0	We're continuing now with part two of our conversation with the investigative journalist
0:15.0	Vicki Ward as we look at Trump's attempt to quell his MAGA-based uproar over the Trump administration's refusal
0:22.9	to release the files of dead serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
0:28.2	President Donald Trump's Deputy Attorney General, who is Trump's former private lawyer,
0:33.5	just finished two days of meetings with the convicted felon, Gillesne Maxwell, who's
0:39.7	serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse young girls.
0:47.2	Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Maxwell met for nine hours at the courthouse in
0:53.8	Tallahassee, Florida. Now, I want to go back to
0:57.8	April when Virginia Roberts Jouffrey, an outspoken survivor of sex trafficking by Jeffrey
1:05.5	Epstein, died apparently by suicide in Australia at the age of 41.
1:12.6	She was the first survivor to come out publicly against Jeffrey Epstein as well as
1:19.4	Elaine Maxwell.
1:21.8	Virginia also sued Prince Andrew for sexually assaulting her when she was 17. The disgraced prince was forced
1:31.2	to step away from his royal duties and settled with Jufrey in 2022. In a statement,
1:38.9	Jufri's family said, quote, Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse
1:43.5	and sex trafficking.
1:44.7	She was the light that lifted so many survivors, unquote.
1:49.2	Back in 2019, Virginia Jufreys spoke to the BBC.
1:54.3	It was a wicked time in my life.
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