Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s first encounter with Jeffrey Epstein’s pink-hued mansion in Palm Beach seemed like the beginning of a promising journey toward becoming a massage therapist. However, as she reveals in her memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” this was far from a fairytale career opportunity. Instead, it marked the start of a harrowing ordeal filled with psychological manipulation, where compliance was rewarded and defiance was met with punishment.
In her book “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” Giuffre, who tragically passed away earlier this year, chronicled the circumstances that led to her being trafficked as a minor by Epstein, a convicted sex offender, and his accomplice. She detailed the years of fear and torment she endured under their control.
Throughout the nearly 400-page memoir, Giuffre described how the promise of opportunity quickly turned into a nightmare. She came to understand that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell methodically dismantled her defenses, leaving her vulnerable to their manipulation.
“Whenever I felt uncomfortable, just one look from Maxwell would make me question my own instincts,” Giuffre recounted.
Released on Tuesday, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” offers an intimate account from one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers. (NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)
Giuffre’s introduction into Epstein’s circle quickly made her a regular figure at his Palm Beach residence on El Brillo Way. She revealed that Epstein had a particular interest in observing interactions between women.
“Little by little, I was welcomed into the sorority of Epstein’s girls,” she wrote.
Giuffre, who was working at Mar-a-Lago when she was recruited, said that Epstein encouraged her to quit her job to work full-time for him, but warned that she would be “at his beck and call, day and night. No exceptions.”
“When he said, ‘Jump!’ my response would have to be, “How high?”
Giuffre said that through becoming financially indebted to Epstein, she became trapped in servitude. She described that she was initially hesitant to agree to work full-time for Epstein, but received a threat about her younger brother, Sky Roberts Jr.
“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein allegedly told her. “You must never tell a soul what goes on in this house.”
David Boies, representing several of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims, center, arrives with Annie Farmer and Virginia Giuffre, at federal court in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Giuffre revealed that as her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell grew, she said that she had “unlocked” Epstein into confiding in her. In her memoir she wrote that he showed her a hidden doorway next to “some paintings of naked people stretching.”
She said that she saw the convicted sex offender’s “trophy closet,” a closet with floor-to-ceiling photos of young girls.
“All of the girls were naked, many of them quite obviously underage, and the images were raunchy, not demure,” Giuffre recalled in her memoir. “A stack of shoe-boxes in the corner held the overflow. He had so many photos that he’d run out of display space.”
She said that when Epstein allegedly showed her his closet, she said he didn’t speak, but the smug look on his face said, “Look at my conquests. Look at how powerful I am.”
A person reads a copy of “Nobody’s Girl” by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which was published on Tuesday. Prince Andrew relinquished his dukedom and other honors on Friday, after excerpts from the posthumous autobiography of Giuffre were released. (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)
Giuffre delved into the elite exploitation of Epstein’s world, sharing that she would be at Epstein’s various residences all day.
“Some days, the call would come in the morning. I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. After a few hours, I’d usually be summoned to have sex with him again,” she wrote.
“If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well. She kept a bin of vibrators and sex toys handy for these sessions. But she never demanded sex from me one-on-one — only when we were with Epstein. Sometimes there were other girls there, too, and I’d end up staying at El Brillo Way all day.”
Virginia Roberts holds a photo of herself at age 16, when she says Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein began abusing her sexually. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
She said that Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 for helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, was “proud” of her friendships with famous people.
Giuffre wrote that Maxwell “loved to talk about how easily she could get former president Bill Clinton on the phone,” though Clinton has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in an undated photograph. (Justice Department)
Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell weeks after his 2019 arrest. The American financier was awaiting trial on U.S. federal sex-trafficking charges involving dozens of teenage girls and young women, some as young as 14. Investigators ruled his death a suicide.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by him. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
