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The real heroes of the Epstein story

— Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 (@pmmcdaniel.bsky.social) 2026-04-19T13:26:16.159Z

When I wrote “Perversion of Justice” for the Miami Herald in 2018, I never dreamed that we would be sitting here today, piecing together a global sex trafficking and money laundering network involving not only Jeffrey Epstein — but other powerful figures who either participated in or helped enable him to sexually abuse countless women and girls all over the world.

I didn’t do this story all by myself. Emily Michot, the former Miami Herald photographer and videographer, was with me every step of the way. And my editor, Casey Frank, now retired, supported me when people like Alan Dershowitz went into tirades and threatened to sue us. Casey read many of the court documents I used that formed the backbone to my investigation.

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But most of all, we wouldn’t be here today if not for four survivors who courageously were the first to go public with their stories. These four — Virginia Giuffre, Michelle Licata, Courtney Wild and Jena-Lisa Jones (pictured with Emily and I above in a People magazine story) — are the heroines of this story.

If you have not seen the powerful videos that Emily produced for our series, I encourage you to view them on YouTube. Her work captured the trauma and betrayal that these women suffered at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and from the state and federal prosecutors in Florida who failed them.

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Someday the truth will come out and perps will be exposed, though I doubt it will be in my lifetime or theirs.