Epstein invoked 5th Amendment right to silence 600 times in Virginia Giuffre case
THE late financier Jeffrey Epstein invoked his constitutional right against incriminating himself about 600 times in testimony for a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual abuse. Epstein's refusal to answer questions in Giuffre's lawsuit against his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell was disclosed in a filing on Friday in Manhattan federal court, as part of a trove of documents being unsealed this month from the civil defamation case, which settled in 2017. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives people the right not to incriminate themselves. In the September 2016 filing, Giuffre's lawyers said Epstein routinely…