In a bombshell posthumous memoir, Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre details her horrifying encounters in the sinister world of the late financier, who while treating her as a “sex slave” insisted she call him “daddy.”
Written by Virginia Giuffre and journalist Amy Wallace, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” was released on Oct. 21, just months after the 41-year-old died by suicide in April.
The memoir delivers what Giuffre called her “whole story” after 16 years of interviews and legal battles, expanding on her long-standing claims of being trafficked by Epstein to billionaires, politicians, and Britain’s Prince Andrew.
Explaining the twisted rationalizations that kept her trapped for two years in what she described as “Epstein’s sickening world,” Giuffre writes, per CBS News: “I needed him not to be a selfish, cruel pedophile. So, I told myself he wasn’t one.”
And, while many Epstein survivors have come forward, Giuffre’s account stands apart for her allegation that she was “loaned” to Epstein’s wealthy friends – something she never stopped fighting to expose.
Groomed and trapped
Giuffre’s entry into Epstein’s world began in 2000, just weeks before her 17th birthday, while she was working at the now President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort spa. There she met Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited her as a “masseuse” for her longtime companion, Jeffrey Epstein.
Very quickly, she says, massages turned into coerced sex acts, and soon she was drawn into a life of travel across Epstein’s luxurious properties in New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and New Mexico. Along the way, she alleges, she was introduced to influential figures and sometimes directed to have sex with them.
Learned ‘not to keep him waiting’
One early moment in Giuffre’s experience illustrated how quickly her freedom evaporated. While staying at an apartment owned by Epstein’s brother on E 66th St., she took a long walk through Manhattan.
“The one night I slept there I luxuriated in having my own space, but that freedom would be short-lived,” she wrote. “The next day, I foolishly went out for a long walk, discovering New York City for the first time. But because I had no cell phone, Epstein and Maxwell couldn’t reach me as I walked around for hours, filled with awe.”
When she returned, the reaction was immediate. “Epstein demanded angrily where I had been, while Maxwell glared at me,” she wrote. “That was the last time I saw the Sixty-Sixth Street apartment.”
From then on, Giuffre was kept in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, confined to a fifth-floor bedroom with “menacing wall-hangings that gave me the creeps – it showed wild boars feeding on the carcasses of other animals as a few screaming children looked on.” She recalled how “there was also an intercom that Epstein used to summon me. I quickly learned not to keep him waiting.”
Twisted “family”
Giuffre also revealed how Epstein and Maxwell carefully manipulated their victims into a twisted “family” structure: “Epstein was the patriarch, Maxwell the matriarch,” she wrote, adding that Maxwell sometimes introduced the “childlike” girls “who regularly serviced Epstein her ‘children.’”
“She and Epstein once took me to a boat show in Palm Beach and spent the afternoon introducing me as their daughter, just for kicks,” Giuffre recalled. “As bizarre as that sounds, it felt kind of good to me. Less good, given my history, was that Epstein sometimes insisted that I call him ‘Daddy’ during sex.”
Believed she would ‘die a sex slave’
The abuse Giuffre endured was not limited to manipulation and coercion. In one of the book’s most harrowing admissions, she writes, “In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” per the BBC. “I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.”
“I believed that I might die a sex slave,” she added.
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