Virginia Giuffre endured two years in sexual slavery under Jeffrey Epstein, who regularly lent her to his influential friends. Although she managed to escape, the trauma he inflicted haunted her until last year when she took her own life.
Mala was 17, wearing the white uniform of the luxurious Mar-a-Lago resort, dreaming of a better life. Just one encounter with a woman named Ghislaine Maxwell, and a few days later, she found herself in the lavish mansion of an American billionaire. She stood in a dimly lit room, leaning over a massage table.
Awkwardly, she moved her hands over the body of a powerful man who reveled in her touch—but in a completely different way than she imagined when the British woman in expensive clothes approached her with a job offer as a masseuse. Paralyzed by fear, she did everything he asked of her, and he just amused himself by stealing her dignity. But that was only the beginning. It didn't take long before Jeffrey Epstein turned her into his possession—a toy for his own pleasure and a pawn in deals with other influential men.
Virginia Giuffre lived her youth in fear of dying as a sex slave but eventually left this world as a hero. She's remembered as the woman without whom Epstein's secret list of twisted billionaires visiting Pedophile Island would just be a conspiracy theory. In her testimonies, she even dared to point directly at the British royal family and implicate Prince Andrew—just one of many influential men Epstein forced her to have sex with.
“The prince was very friendly towards me but claimed me. It was as if he thought that having sex with me was his birthright,” wrote Virginia Giuffre in her book "Nobody's Girl," where she details what her life looked like in sexual slavery.
She escaped from one trauma only to end up in another. After her case with Epstein made headlines, she moved to Australia, where she tragically ended her life in 2025.
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- Virginia’s gig at Donald Trump's luxury resort, where she met Ghislaine Maxwell.
- How Maxwell and Epstein first assaulted her when she was just 17, mocking her childish underwear.
- How Epstein demanded her presence whenever he felt like having sex.
- How he lent her to his influential friends, including Prince Andrew, who was fixated on Virginia’s legs.
- About the orgies on Pedophile Island, where Epstein and Prince Andrew enjoyed sex with Virginia and other girls, likely under 18.
- How Virginia escaped Epstein but couldn't escape her trauma and what troubled her in the months before her death.
Job Offer to Work for Epstein at Trump’s Hotel
Virginia Giuffre was born on August 9, 1983, in Sacramento, California. She grew up with two brothers: one stepbrother and one biological brother. In her book "Nobody's Girl," she later shocked by revealing that a family friend sexually abused her from the age of seven. When she was 14, she ran away and ended up in a foster home.
Later, she moved to Florida with her father, Sky Roberts, who worked as a maintenance man at Donald Trump’s luxury resort Mar-a-Lago. In 2000, when she was 16, her dad got her a gig there, according to The Guardian.
“On my first day at the new job, I got a uniform—a white polo shirt with the Mar-a-Lago logo, a short white skirt, and a name tag that read ‘JENNA.’ Although they called me Virginia at work, everyone at home called me Jenna,” writes Giuffre in her memoirs.
A few days later, her dad introduced her to Donald Trump. The billionaire was very friendly and even offered her another gig: babysitting for the elite.
Virginia worked at the resort as a receptionist in the wellness center. Just weeks before her 17th birthday, a British woman in expensive clothes visited the spa. She introduced herself as Ghislaine Maxwell and offered her a job as a private masseuse for her wealthy friend. It sounded like a perfect job: they'd train her, she'd get a generous reward, and she could travel and see the world.
She didn’t have to explain to her father how important it was to take every opportunity to earn money. A few days later, he personally drove her to the luxurious estate of an unknown millionaire to see if she could handle the job.
As soon as she walked up the stairs of the lavish property, she noticed paintings of dozens of naked women on the walls. “Is this how rich people with refined tastes decorate their homes?” she wondered, but didn’t think much of it.
In the room, Ghislaine Maxwell and a naked man, lying on the massage table, awaited her. He introduced himself as Jeffrey Epstein. For the first half hour, everything seemed innocent. The woman taught her how to massage, and she just mimicked her movements. Aside from Epstein's odd questions—such as if she used birth control—nothing seemed suspicious.
Virginia’s horror came when he turned over, and she saw he had an erection. Ghislaine Maxwell told her it was a common occurrence during a massage and to ignore it.
Epstein asked if she had ever had sex before. When she told him a family friend had abused her, he downplayed her trauma and repeatedly said he liked “naughty girls” like her. From this moment, Virginia remembers only fragments:
“Maxwell, with a mischievous grin, undressed. I remember her unbuttoning my skirt and pulling the Mar-a-Lago polo shirt over my head. Together with Epstein, they laughed at my heart-patterned underwear. ‘How cute, she's wearing girly panties,’ Jeffrey teased. Then he grabbed a vibrator and forced it between my thighs. Maxwell ordered me to play with his nipples while rubbing her bare breasts against mine.”
Virginia wrote in her book that she completely froze. She wanted to run but couldn’t. She complied to survive.
Two Endless Years in Sexual Slavery
Aside from being a predator, Jeffrey Epstein was a skilled manipulator. He deliberately chose victims without family support, from poor backgrounds. On one hand, he sexually exploited them; on the other, he pretended he cared. Many had nowhere to go, so despite everything, they returned to him, just like Virginia.
In the following weeks, she visited Epstein several times to give him massages with a happy ending. Then he suggested she work for him full-time. The catch was that she had to be available whenever he wanted. Living with her father might raise suspicions, so he proposed giving her $2,500 (approximately 2100 euros, editor's note) to rent an apartment near his mansion, writes The Guardian.
Virginia wasn't keen, but she felt she had no choice. Once they agreed, Epstein showed her photos of her younger brother. “You can never tell what happens in this house. Got it? I have the entire police department of Palm Beach in my pocket, so they wouldn’t care,” he threatened.
Whenever Jeffrey Epstein called Virginia, she’d arrive to satisfy his sexual desires—sometimes alone, sometimes with Maxwell. She mostly hung out by his huge pool while he worked, distressed and surviving day by day. She became addicted to pills, consuming up to eight Xanax a day.
Epstein then began lending her to his friends. He’d send her to their homes, instructing her to give them massages and, if they desired—please them as she did him.
On March 10, 2001, Virginia, along with Maxwell and Jeffrey, traveled to London, where she was introduced to Prince Andrew. She remembers the duo persuading the prince to guess her age. At the time, the 41-year-old Duke of York guessed correctly: 17 years. “My daughters are only a bit younger than you,” he noted. Maxwell quipped: “We might need to replace her soon.”
That evening, the woman instructed Virginia to visit the prince’s room after dinner and “do for him what you do for Jeffrey”:
“The prince was very friendly, but he laid claim to me. It felt like he believed that having sex with me was his birthright. I prepared a hot bath for us. We undressed and got in, didn’t stay long because he was eager for bed. He was particularly attentive to my legs, stroking and licking them. I had never experienced this before and it tickled. I was scared he'd want the same from me, but unnecessarily. He wanted sex as soon as possible. Then he thanked me in his sharp British accent,” Virginia wrote in her book "Nobody's Girl," saying the whole encounter didn’t last more than half an hour.
The next morning, Jeffrey Epstein praised the girl and told her she did well: “You did it. The prince had fun.” Virginia had sex with the prince three times in the following months. The last time was on Jeffrey's infamous island, dubbed Pedophile Island by the media:
“I was 18 then. We weren’t just the two of us; it was an orgy. Epstein, the prince, and about eight other young girls engaged in sex.”
Escaped Epstein but Couldn’t Escape Her Pain
Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused Virginia until 2002, when she managed to escape to Thailand. Later, she moved to Australia and started a family. Meanwhile, in 2005, the police began investigating Epstein based on the testimony of a victim who wished to remain anonymous. This victim was Virginia Giuffre, writes BBC.
In 2011, she stepped out of anonymity and started publicly sharing her story. Ghislaine Maxwell sued her for defamation. When these documents were unsealed in 2019, they marked the definitive downfall of Epstein. The billionaire was charged with abusing minors and child trafficking. On August 10, 2019, he was found dead in his New York prison cell.
Two years later, Virginia filed another lawsuit, shocking the world. It concerned a member of the British royal family—Prince Andrew. Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years for human trafficking. The trial with the prince lasted until 2022, when he agreed to an out-of-court settlement. According to several sources, he paid Virginia compensation of 12 million pounds (almost 14 million euros, editor's note), though he never admitted guilt.
Sadly, Virginia Giuffre found neither peace nor happiness even after escaping sexual slavery and winning the lawsuits against those who abused her for two years. On April 25, 2025, at 41 years old, she committed suicide in her home in Perth, Australia. Just a few months prior, she publicly spoke about domestic violence from her husband Robert Giuffre, writes People magazine.
Shortly after her death, entries from her personal diary leaked, revealing horrors she endured at home before her death. “Robert has been more controlling. The stronger I got, the more terrifying he seemed,” Virginia wrote in one of her diary entries.
She described feeling like a prisoner in her own home. Her husband allegedly forbade any male visitors, and if any came, Virginia had to stay locked in the upstairs bedroom to avoid meeting them.
Three months before her death—in January 2025, Virginia Giuffre was hospitalized with a fractured sternum and facial bruises. She told doctors she was in a bus accident, but allegedly, her husband caused them.
In February, Robert Giuffre obtained a court order preventing Virginia from further contact with her children. This broke her, confirmed not only by her diary but also by her brother:
“Many things weighed on her before she died. Most of all, that she couldn’t celebrate her son Nahom's birthday with him. They were important to her, and she knew she wouldn’t attend. Her children were her life,” her brother Sky Roberts told People magazine.
Months after Virginia Giuffre’s death—on October 21—her book "Nobody’s Girl" was published, which she prepared for four years in collaboration with American journalist Amy Wallace. In it, Virginia details her life in sexual slavery and reveals dozens of other names to whom Jeffrey Epstein provided girls for sex.
