EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein's ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts wins round in defamation lawsuit against British socialite and alleged 'pimp' Ghislaine Maxwell who 'passed her around for sex' and trained her to be 'everything a man wanted'

• Virginia Roberts, 33, persuaded a judge to throw out a motion preventing her from suing British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 55, for defamation
• The defamation suit alleges Maxwell instructed her spokesman to attack Roberts'  honesty and truthfulness and to accuse her of lying'
• Roberts claimed Maxwell recruited her as a sex slave when she was  15 for convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and passed around to his friends
• Maxwell, who was Epstein's girlfriend at the time, is also accused of forcing her to have sex with Maxwell and other underage girls
• The 55-year-old responded to the allegations with a damaging press release 
• In February 2016, a judge denied Maxwell’s request to throw out Roberts' lawsuit when she said she was just defending herself against allegations
• Roberts also alleges she was involved in an 11-person orgy with Epstein's friend Prince Andrew,  a claim the prince has vehemently denied

Virginia Roberts, the woman who claims she was an underage sex slave for perverted financier Jeffrey Epstein has won another round in her fight against the woman she claims recruited her.

Roberts' lawyers persuaded a judge to throw out a motion that would have prevented her from suing Epstein’s one-time girlfriend and alleged 'pimp' Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation.

Dailymail.com has learned the decision clears the way for the civil case to go ahead in New York in two weeks’ time.

The defamation suit alleges Maxwell instructed her spokesman to attack Roberts' honesty and truthfulness and to accuse her of lying.

Maxwell, the daughter of former British press baron Robert Maxwell who died when he fell off his yacht in 1991, had argued that a press release in which she attacked Roberts was protected speech.

But Judge Robert Sweet refused to accept that argument in a 76-page decision, saying that Roberts was arguing that Maxwell released the damaging statement out of ‘malice.’