White House Identifies Virginia Giuffre as the Unnamed ‘Victim’ in Epstein Emails Pertaining to Trump

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt informed TIME in an email that Virginia Giuffre is the name of the victim redacted in two emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which House Democrats made public on Wednesday.
“Democrats deliberately leaked emails to liberal media outlets to fabricate a narrative intended to smear President Trump. The ‘unnamed victim’ mentioned in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly affirmed President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her during their limited interactions,” Leavitt stated in her communication to TIME.
TIME was unable to independently confirm that Giuffre’s name was the content blacked out and designated “victim” in two of the three emails released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Giuffre has alleged she was an Epstein victim, initially approached by the pedophile financier’s associate, , while Giuffre was employed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Giuffre died by suicide in April and in a described meeting Epstein when she was a teenager and being “loaned” out to his contacts. Giuffre wrote in her memoir that she met Trump in 2000. Her memoir recounts, “Trump couldn’t have been friendlier.”
In an email dated April 2, 2011, Epstein appears to have conveyed to Maxwell: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him .. he has never once been mentioned.” Maxwell replied: “I have been thinking about that…”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Trump and his Administration have faced intense scrutiny recently regarding their handling of the Epstein case—as well as the President’s own years-long association with the late sex offender—as prominent supporters have called for Trump to release additional Epstein case files.
On July 29, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Giuffre was from the Mar-a-Lago spa, and that this was part of Trump’s rationale for eventually banning Epstein from the club. Trump stated, Giuffre had “no complaints about us, as you know – none whatsoever.”
“The fact remains that President Trump expelled Jeffrey Epstein from his club decades ago for being inappropriate with his female employees, including Giuffre. These stories are nothing more than disingenuous attempts to divert attention from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense recognizes this as a fabrication and a clear distraction from the government opening back up again,” Leavitt remarked.
In an unusual move, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Maxwell over two days in late July at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. According to a Department of Justice, Maxwell stated, “I never observed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. During the times that I was with him, he conducted himself as a gentleman in all respects.” Blanche inquired if Maxwell remembered recruiting a masseuse from Mar-a-Lago to provide a private massage to Epstein. She responded, “I can’t ever recollect doing that.”