Vicki Ward

But we didn't know what he was capable of.

And I think that's why my husband and I then sort of made a pact that we were just going to try and forget all about Jeffrey Epstein.

And we were going to try and just care for our children.

And we were going to just march forward and forget the whole thing.

And, you know, Ghislaine Maxwell occasionally would pop up around.

And I, you know, smiled and tried to just sort of almost I tried to normalize it.

And then it was only really in 2015 when Virginia, she joined the class action suit that Brad Edwards was spearheading of all the victims who were fighting.

So Brad Edwards was this Florida lawyer who really is a hero in this story and who...

Who who sort of gathered up many of the victims in Florida and said, right, we're going to we're going to fight the fact that this plea deal was done and done behind your back.

It is a breach of your rights.

And he fought it.

And.

He, along with David Boies, you know, they found Virginia in Australia and they persuaded her in 2015 to join this class action suit.

And so it was when that class action suit was filed.

And it had names of all the people around Jeffrey Epstein in it.

And so finally, the media woke up.

And one day I found I was going up in the elevator to my apartment in New York.

And inside my hallway, there was a reporter, I think for The Sun, waiting for me.

And I realized that there might be new people.

a new lease of life in this story.