The last thing Virginia Giuffre needed after claiming she had four days to live was for her agent to spread a completely fictional account of how Daily Mail Australia got world exclusive photos of her.
In a huge scoop, Giuffre was pictured in public for the first time on Wednesday since posting a photo of her heavily bruised face and claiming she was on deaths door.
Our team of journalists was on the ground in Western Australia after the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking victims Instagram post sent shockwaves around the world.
But, proving the old saying that you make your own luck in life, the Mails reporters were left stunned when Giuffre quite literally pulled up alongside them at a feed store, north of Perth, about 4.30pm.
Before senior reporter Stephen Gibbs could even approach Giuffre - whose injuries were not immediately obvious - she lashed out, sticking up her middle finger and telling our team to get the f*** out of here.
Our photographer took some photos from his car and Giuffre did not give us a chance to speak to her further. Giuffres car, driven by her brother Danny Wilson, drove off into the distance without any further incident and our pictures of her rude gesture went around the world.
Then Giuffres full service public relations agent Dini von Mueffling went into damage control, fashioning a version of events that simply had no basis in reality.
Von Mueffling found a willing audience in the tabloids at News Corp Australia, especially Sydneys Daily Telegraph run by editor Ben English, which had been so comprehensively scooped on the Giuffre story over the past fortnight that they figured their only chance for an exclusive would be smear their betters.
Virginia Giuffre was photographed by Daily Mail Australia about 4.30pm on Wednesday - the first time she had been seen in public since claiming she had four days to live
What the Mail had pulled off in doing their journalistic legwork was like what the paparazzi had done to Princess Di! von Mueffling gasped to News Corp lackeys.
Von Mueffling claimed that, in scenes reminiscent of an action movie, Giuffre had been followed to the feed store by the Mails reporters.
Then, she was pinned down by our team who refused to move their car out of the way - blocking her path to a lonely country road.
Then they had brazenly ignore requests to leave the feed stores car park and had gone on to breach Giuffres property!
Excuse us?
We know youre basically an eyewitness, von Mueffling, given you are approximately 18,450km away in New York City.
But there was no exciting pursuit of Giuffre and no blocking of the car. Giuffre literally pulled up next to our team.
Nothing unsafe or disturbing occurred (except, perhaps, Giuffre screaming an obscenity). And there was no traffic, unless youre counting tumbleweeds.
Dini von Mueffling is Virginia Giuffres New York City-based public relations agent. She has had a very busy couple of weeks
Mr Gibbs even had a pleasant conversation with feed store staff about coming back and buying a hat some time. Hardly persona non grata.
Now, this exposé of von Muefflings delusional version of events must all be getting a bit uncomfortable for our friends at News Corp who embarrassingly slapped exclusive on the agents distorted version of events.
Had they actually used the media giants vast resources and shown up to chase the story, they might have actually bagged a real exclusive. Its all a bit sad, really.
We could keep going, but, instead, allow us to blow our own trumpet a moment and reflect on all the scoops our senior reporters Mr Gibbs, Jonica Bray and Candace Sutton got on this story.
They broke the story about Giuffres four days to live post. And the fact Giuffre had been charged with breaching a family violence restraining order.
And exclusively interviewed the bus driver who had the prang with Giuffre. And the caretaker who was behind the wheel.
And got the shot the Australian and British media were clamouring for, all while acting professionally.
Anyone claiming the opposite is writing drivel. But what do you expect?