her Name was Virginia
A mermaid in yellow and purple, swimming through bright blue water.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre was 16 years old when she was recruited from Mar-a-Lago. She was groomed, abused, and trafficked to powerful men. She alleged abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. For years, she carried that alone. Then she held her newborn daughter in her arms. Her family said that was the moment she decided to fight back. So she did. She went to court. She spoke publicly. She put her name and her face on a story that powerful people spent fortunes trying to keep buried.
In 2025, Virginia lost her life to suicide. She never got the justice she spent her life fighting for.
Valeria painted her free. A mermaid in bright blue water. That is how we choose to hold her.
The Epstein files have still not been fully released. That is not a technicality. It is a decision. And it tells us something about who this government thinks it answers to.
Democracy is not a calendar of elections. It is a promise that the law applies to everyone. When the wealthy and connected can abuse, traffic, and exploit without consequence, that promise is broken. We cannot keep asking people to trust a system that protects the powerful and buries the truth. That is not democracy. That is a performance.
Releasing those files is not a political ask. It is the bare minimum. No party affiliation, no bank account, no list of powerful friends should place anyone above the law. If we allow it to, we are not living in the democracy we claim to be.
Virginia fought for accountability her whole life and never saw it. The least we can do is refuse to stop fighting.
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BI Kindness Rocks Event
Val, a Boston Indivisible member, painted Virginia at our Kindness Rocks event. When she told me who the mermaid was, my heart sank. I knew her. We all did. She is Virginia.
BI Kindness Rocks Event