Michael Tracey
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1,212 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Feb
Michael Tracey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She initially filed some civil litigation around, I want to say, 2009, 2010, maybe 2008, as a Jane Doe.
Maybe 2011, somewhere in that range.
First as a Jane Doe, meaning she wasn't named in the litigation.
And this related to a period of around...
2001, 2002, when she was in the Epstein orbit to some extent.
And there's evidence that she was in the Epstein orbit to some extent.
She's not hallucinating everything.
I've argued that she's not so much a liar, I wouldn't say.
I've never directly accused her of lying about anything as such.
I've said that she's kind of confabulated an alternate reality, and that's a little bit different because it doesn't necessarily connote willful deceits, and it's almost even more disturbing if you think about it.
Yeah, she recanted her story, not just about Dershowitz.
That's maybe the most well-known instance of her recanting one of her marquee claims.
And it really only came about because Dershowitz was unusually motivated to actually pursue some sort of resolution through a very protracted litigation process against very high-powered lawyers.
I mean, one of the fallacies here is that these survivors, quote-unquote, such as Virginia, are taken to be these beleaguered victims, etc., who had no power at all in this dynamic.
And yet, I mean, they were represented by some of the most powerful and skillful lawyers in the country, such as David Boies, who's like one of the best known lawyers of all time and was hugely well resourced.
And also, you know, Virginia Goufray became incredibly wealthy, maybe not as wealthy as you, David, but, you know, 20 estimates range from like 15, 20, 25 billion dollars.
It's hard to know because a lot of the settlement details are secret.
So it wasn't just this hapless victim who had no leg to stand on in order to make her claims.
But yeah, Dershowitz, she ended up recanting her allegations.
And bear in mind, it wasn't just that she happened to level some accusation at some point, maybe in casual banter.
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