Virginia Giuffre survived two years in sexual slavery under Jeffrey Epstein, who regularly loaned her out to his influential friends. Although she managed to escape, the trauma continued to haunt her until last year when she tragically took her own life.
She was just 17, wearing the white uniform of the luxurious Mar-a-Lago resort, dreaming of a better life. A single encounter with a woman named Ghislaine Maxwell led her to the opulent mansion of an American billionaire a few days later. There she stood, in a darkened room, bending over a massage table.
Timidly, she ran her hands over the powerful man's body, someone who enjoyed her touch—but not in the way she imagined when the well-dressed Brit approached her with a job offer as a masseuse. Paralyzed with fear, she obeyed all his demands while he amused himself by robbing her of her dignity. But this was only the beginning. It wasn't long before Jeffrey Epstein made her his possession—a toy for his pleasure and bait in dealings with other influential men.
Virginia Giuffre spent her youth fearing she'd die as a sex slave but eventually left this world a heroine. Everyone remembers her as the woman who made Epstein's secret list of twisted billionaires visiting Epstein Island more than a conspiracy theory. In her testimonies, she even boldly pointed fingers at the British royal family, sinking Prince Andrew—just one of the many powerful men Epstein forced her to sleep with.
“The prince was very friendly to me but claimed ownership over me. As if he believed that having sex with me was his birthright,” Virginia Giuffre wrote in her book Nobody's Girl, where she thoroughly describes her life in sexual slavery.
Yet, she escaped one traumatic experience only to find herself in another. After her case with Epstein became public, she moved to Australia, where she committed suicide in 2025.
The Offer to Work for Epstein Came at Trump’s Hotel
Virginia Giuffre was born on August 9, 1983, in Sacramento, California. She grew up with two brothers: one half-brother and one biological brother. In her book Nobody's Girl, she later shocked readers by confessing that she was sexually abused by a family friend starting at age seven. When she was 14, she ran away from home and ended up in a children's shelter.
She later moved to Florida to live with her father, Sky Roberts, who worked as a maintenance man at Donald Trump's luxurious Mar-a-Lago resort. In 2000, when she was 16, her father arranged a summer job for her 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'. Even though they called me Virginia at work, everyone at home called me Jenna,” Giuffre writes in her memoirs.
Her father introduced her to Donald Trump a few days into the job. The billionaire was very friendly and even hooked her up with another gig: babysitting the children of the elite.
Virginia worked in the resort as a receptionist at the wellness center. A few weeks before her 17th birthday, a well-dressed British woman visited. She introduced herself to the girl as Ghislaine Maxwell and offered her a job as a private masseuse for her wealthy friend. It sounded like the perfect job: they’d train her, pay generously, and she’d have the chance to travel and see the world.
She didn't have to explain much to her father about why it was important to seize every opportunity to earn money. A few days later, he personally drove her to the wealthy stranger's luxurious mansion, where she was to see if she could handle the job.
As she walked up the stairs of the luxurious estate, she noticed paintings and portraits of dozens of naked women on the walls. “Do rich people with refined taste decorate their homes like this?” she thought to herself, but she didn’t find it suspicious.
Inside the room, Ghislaine Maxwell and a naked man lying on a massage table awaited her. He introduced himself as Jeffrey Epstein. For the first half-hour, everything seemed innocent. The woman showed her how to massage, and she simply copied her movements. Besides Epstein's odd questions—like asking if she used birth control—nothing appeared suspicious.
Virginia's devastation came when he turned over, and she saw his erection. Ghislaine Maxwell told her it was a normal occurrence during a massage and to ignore it.
Epstein asked her if she'd ever had sex. When she told him that a family friend had abused her, he downplayed her trauma, saying he liked "naughty girls" like her. From that moment, Virginia only remembers bits:
“Maxwell, with a mischievous grin, undressed. I remember as she unbuttoned my skirt and pulled my Mar-a-Lago polo shirt over my head. They laughed at my heart-patterned underwear. ‘How cute, she’s wearing girly panties,’ they mocked. Then Epstein grabbed a vibrator and violently placed it between my thighs. Maxwell instructed me to play with his nipples while she rubbed her bare chest against mine.”
In her book, Virginia wrote that she completely froze. She wanted to run, but couldn’t. She submitted to survive.
Two Endless Years of Sexual Slavery
Aside from being a predator, Jeffrey Epstein was also a highly skilled manipulator. He intentionally targeted victims without family support, from poor social backgrounds. On one hand, he sexually abused them; on the other hand, he pretended to care for them. Many had nowhere else to go, so they returned to him, just like Virginia.
Over the following weeks, Virginia visited Epstein several times to give him massages with a happy ending. Then he suggested she work for him full-time. However, he set a condition: she had to be available whenever he wanted. If she lived with her father, he might find it suspicious, so Epstein offered her $2,500 to rent an apartment near his mansion, The Guardian reports.
Virginia 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. Do you understand? I control the entire Palm Beach police department; they wouldn't care anyway,” he threatened her.
Whenever Jeffrey Epstein called Virginia, she came and fulfilled his sexual desires—sometimes alone, sometimes with Maxwell. Afterward, she usually lounged by his enormous pool while he worked. She was tormented, living day to day. She became dependent on medication, consuming up to eight Xanax daily.
Epstein then began lending her to his friends. He sent her to their homes and instructed her to massage them and, if desired—to please them as she did him.
On March 10, 2001, Virginia, along with Maxwell and Jeffrey, traveled to London, where he introduced her to Prince Andrew. She remembers the duo convinced the prince to guess her age. The 41-year-old Duke of York guessed correctly: 17 years old. “My daughters are just a little younger than you,” he remarked. Maxwell joked: “We might have to replace her soon.”
That evening, Maxwell instructed Virginia to go to the prince’s room after dinner and “do for him what you do for Jeffrey”:
“The prince was very friendly to me but claimed ownership over me. As if he believed that having sex with me was his birthright. I prepared us a hot bath. We undressed and got into the tub, but we didn’t stay long because he was eager to get to the bed. He paid special attention to my feet, caressing and licking them. It was my first time experiencing this, and it tickled. I feared he’d want me to do the same for him, but I was wrong. He wanted sex as soon as possible. Afterward, he thanked me in his sharp British accent,” Virginia wrote in her book Nobody’s Girl, mentioning the entire encounter lasted no more than half an hour.
The next morning, Jeffrey Epstein praised the girl, telling her she did a good job: “You handled it. The prince had fun.” In the following months, Virginia had sex with the prince up to three times. The last time was on Jeffrey’s infamous island, dubbed by the media as Pedophile Island:
“I was 18 then. It wasn’t just us two; it was an orgy. Epstein, the prince, and about eight other young girls—we all had sex together.”
Escaped Epstein, But Not Her Torment
Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused Virginia until 2002, when she managed to escape to Thailand. Later, she moved to Australia, where she started a family. Meanwhile, in 2005, police began investigating Epstein based on an anonymous victim’s testimony. That victim was Virginia Giuffre, BBC reports.
In 2011, she stepped out of anonymity and started publicly telling her story. Ghislaine Maxwell sued her for defamation. When those documents were unsealed in 2019, it sparked Epstein’s final downfall. The billionaire was charged with abusing minors and child trafficking. On August 10, 2019, he was found dead in his New York City jail cell.
Two years later, Virginia filed another lawsuit that shocked the world. This time it involved a member of the British royal family—Prince Andrew. Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for human trafficking. The trial with the prince continued until 2022 when he agreed to an out-of-court settlement. According to several sources, he paid Virginia a settlement of £12 million, though he never admitted guilt.
Unfortunately, Virginia Giuffre did not find peace and happiness even after escaping sexual slavery and winning court cases against those who abused her for two years. On April 25, 2025, at 41, she committed suicide in her home in Perth, Australia. Just a few months earlier, she publicly spoke about domestic violence by her husband, Robert Giuffre, People magazine reports.
Shortly after her death, entries from her personal diary surfaced, revealing the horrors she experienced at home before her death. “Robert controlled me more and more. The stronger I became, the scarier he seemed to me,” Virginia wrote in one of her entries.
She described feeling like a prisoner in her own home. Allegedly, her husband didn’t allow any male visitors at the house, and if someone came, Virginia had to stay locked in the upstairs bedroom to avoid any chance of meeting them.
Three months before her death—in January 2025, Virginia Giuffre was hospitalized with a broken rib and bruises on her face. She told doctors she had a bus accident, but reportedly, her husband caused those injuries.
In February, Robert Giuffre obtained a court ruling that banned Virginia from seeing her children. This broke her, as confirmed not only by her diary entries but also by her brother:
“Before her death, she was troubled by many things. The hardest was not being able to celebrate her son Nahom’s birthday. They were important to her, and she knew she wouldn’t attend. Her children were her life,” Virginia’s brother, Sky Roberts, told People magazine.
Months after Virginia Giuffre's death—on October 21—her book Nobody’s Girl was released, which she prepared for four years in collaboration with American journalist Amy Wallace. In it, Virginia thoroughly describes her life in sexual slavery and reveals dozens of other names Jeffrey Epstein arranged girls for sex with.
