Virginia Giuffre recounts her recruitment by Ghislaine Maxwell at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the first time Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her, and being allegedly trafficked to billionaires, academics, politicians, and even Prince Andrew in the first excerpt from her posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, published in The Guardian.
Giuffre, who died by suicide this past April, spent the last few years of her life working on her memoir, reportedly completing the manuscript last fall. It’s now set to be published on Oct. 21.
As one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, many of Giuffre’s most harrowing allegations have already come out in lawsuits and court documents. And while the book still finds her offering an extensive account of her time being trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell, she also reflects on the abuse she suffered as a child, and her decision to come forward about Epstein and Maxwell.
As she writes in the new Nobody’s Girl excerpt, Giuffre fell into Epstein’s orbit after taking a job at Mar-a-Lago, where her dad also worked. She briefly describes meeting Trump at the resort, and how the future president — and known Epstein associate — helped her find additional work babysitting for wealthy friends who lived nearby.
A few weeks before turning 17, Giuffre writes that Maxwell spotted her walking towards the spa at Mar-a-Lago, holding a book on anatomy, which the teen had “jammed with sticky notes.” Picking up on Giuffre’s interest in learning massage, Giuffre says Maxwell invited her to meet Epstein later that night, as the financier was “looking for a massage therapist to travel with him.”
Giuffre recalls how the walls of Epstein’s home were “crowded with photos and paintings of nude women.” She also remembers Epstein was already naked on a massage table when she met him for the first time. Giuffre says Maxwell taught her how to massage Epstein, and at one point “put her hands on top of mine and guided them to [Epstein’s] rear.”
She writes: “Only later would I see how, step by practiced step, the two of them were breaking down my defenses. Every time I felt a twinge of discomfort, one glance at Maxwell told me I was overreacting. And so it went for about half an hour: a seemingly legitimate massage lesson.”
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During the massage, Giuffre says Epstein asked her increasingly probing questions, including whether she took birth control and the first time she had sex. When Giuffre alluded to having spent time on the street as a runaway, she says Epstein teased her for being a “naughty girl.” When Giuffre rebuffed him, Epstein replied, “It’s OK. I like naughty girls.”
At that point, Giuffre writes, Epstein “rolled over onto his back” and revealed his erection. Giuffre says Maxwell kept showing her how to massage Epstein, who then began to masturbate and asked, “You don’t mind, do you?”
Giuffre says this was “the moment that something cracked inside me,” describing her memories as “jagged shards”: “Maxwell peeling off her clothes, a mischievous look on her face; Maxwell behind me, unzipping my skirt and pulling my Mar-a-Lago polo shirt over my head; Epstein and Maxwell laughing at my underwear, which were dotted with tiny hearts. ‘How cute — she still wears little girl’s panties,’ Epstein said. He reached for a vibrator, which he forced between my thighs, as Maxwell commanded me to pinch Epstein’s nipples as she rubbed her own breasts, and mine.”
The excerpt continues: “I could feel my brain begin to shut down. My body couldn’t escape from this room, but my mind couldn’t bear to stay, so it put me on a kind of autopilot: submissive and determined to survive.”
Not long after this encounter, Giuffre says Epstein convinced her to quit her job at Mar-a-Lago and work for him. She says he gave her money to move into her own apartment and not-so-subtly threatened her to keep quiet about what happened inside the house. Giuffre claims Epstein showed her a blurry photo of her brother at his school, and claimed to “own the Palm Beach police department.”
She then writes about when Epstein and Maxwell “began lending [her] out to their friends.” These included: A billionaire with a pregnant wife, a “psychology professor whose research Epstein was helping to fund,” academics, scientists, “a gubernatorial candidate who was soon to win election in a western state, and a former U.S. senator.” Giuffre says Epstein did not introduce these men to her by name, and she only learned some of their identities “years later, when [she] studied photographs of Epstein’s associates and recognized their faces.”
The excerpt ends with Giuffre recalling her first alleged encounter with Prince Andrew in 2001. (Andrew has long denied Giuffre’s allegations and settled a high-profile sexual assault suit with her in 2022.) Upon introducing them, Giuffre says Maxwell encouraged Andrew to guess Giuffre’s age. After he correctly guessed 17, Giuffre writes that Andrew allegedly told her, “My daughters are just a little younger than you.” Giuffre says Maxwell then joked, “I guess we will have to trade her in soon.”
After a night out, Giuffre says Maxwell instructed her, “When we get home, you are to do for [Andrew] what you do for Jeffrey.” Recalling Andrew’s alleged behavior that night, Giuffre writes that he was “friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.” Giuffre says Epstein gave her $15,000 “for servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy.’”
Gifuffre recalls two other alleged encounters with Andrew, one at Epstein’s townhouse in New York, the other on Epstein’s infamous private island. The latter she describes as “an orgy,” quoting a previous deposition where she said it included Epstein, Andrew, and “eight other young girls.” In the memoirs writes that Epstein told her that Jean-Luc Brunel, the late French modeling agent, “supplied the other girls who took part.”
From Rolling Stone US
