The legal team of Virginia Giuffre released the full statement that was read on her behalf in court today as Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced for luring young girls to be molested by Jeffrey Epstein.
Four of Maxwell's victims, Annie Farmer, Sarah Ransome, Elizabeth Stein and the accuser known by the pseudonym "Kate", also read victim impact statements to the court.
Ms Giuffre said that "for more than two years, from age 16 to 19, I was abused by Ghislaine Maxwell".
She stated: "Ghislaine, 22 years ago, in the summer of 2000, you spotted me at the Mar-a-Lago Hotel in Florida, and you made a choice. You chose to follow me and procure me for Jeffrey Epstein.
"Just hours later, you and he abused me together for the first time. Together, you damaged me physically, mentally, sexually, and emotionally.
"Together, you did unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me to this day.
"I want to be clear about one thing: without question, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible paedophile. But I never would have met Jeffrey Epstein if not for you.
"For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell."
The statement continued: "And then, Ghislaine, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, you used your femininity to betray us, and you led us all through it.
"When you did that, Ghislaine, you changed the course of our lives forever. You joked that you were like a new mother to us.
"As a woman, I think you understood the damage you were causing - the price you were making us victims pay."
She also declared: "Ghislaine, the pain you have caused me is almost indescribable. Because of your choices and the world you brought me into, I don't sleep. Nightmares wake me at all hours.
"In those dreams, I relive the awful things you and others did to me and the things you forced me to do.
"Those memories will never go away. I have trouble meeting new people without questioning if somehow they are going to hurt me, too.
"I don't allow my children to stay over at friends' houses, or to walk down the street alone. I don't trust anyone to be near them without me or my husband close by.
"I am hyper-vigilant, because I know that evil exists. You taught me that."
Last March, the civil sexual assault case brought in the US against Britain's Prince Andrew by his accuser Virginia Giuffre was officially dismissed after he paid her a financial settlement.
The British accuser of Ghislaine Maxwell, who gave evidence under the pseudonym "Kate" during the trial, chose to read a different speech to the one she had submitted in a written format.
Speaking at the hearing today, she said: "Ghislaine's lack of remorse and blatant refusal to take responsibility for her crimes towards us is her final insult.
"Someone who even had a difficult or abusive father does not excuse sex trafficking of minors.
"A lack of remorse or responsibility from Ghislaine is exactly how we can tell that she doesn't think what she did was wrong.
"She is not sorry and she would do it again."
Ghislaine Maxwell apologised to the victims of her abuses moments before her 20-year sentence was handed down and said she hopes her sentence will allow them "peace and finality".
'We are very happy with the sentence'
Annie Farmer - the only victim on the indictment to give evidence under her full name during the trial - said Ghislaine Maxwell's last-ditch attempt to apologise to her victims had sounded "hollow".
Ms Farmer, who delivered her own victim impact statement in person to the court during the sentencing, addressed reporters outside the court following the verdict.
"Her statement very like a very hollow apology to me and she did not take responsibility for the crimes that she committed," she said.
"It felt like once more her trying to do something to benefit her and not at all about the harm she had caused."
She added: "We're very happy with the sentence."
Speaking about reading her statement to the court, Ms Farmer said: "It actually felt very powerful to finally have a chance to speak and have my voice on the record and say the things I wanted to say about how her crimes have impacted myself and people that I know and care about."
Ghislaine Maxwell elected not to look at Ms Farmer throughout the duration of her statement, instead choosing to look straight ahead and occasionally take a sip of her drink.
Ms Farmer had to pause midway through her speech in order to contain her emotions, but continued to read her statement to the court in full.
She said: "One of the most painful and ongoing impacts of Maxwell and Epstein's abuse was a loss of trust in myself, my perceptions, and my instincts.
"When predators groom and then abuse or exploit children and other vulnerable people, they are, in a sense, training them to distrust themselves."
Sarah Ransome, in her victim impact statement, said: "Although I have escaped the hellish trap set by Epstein, Maxwell and others, I continue, now 17 years later, to suffer from the horrific trauma it caused."
She said the pair were "masters at finding young, vulnerable girls and young women to exploit".
Ms Ransome also said she had twice attempted suicide since the abuse - "both near-fatal".
