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Virginia Louise Giuffre (''
née
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'' Roberts; born August 9, 1983) is an American-Australian
campaigner who offers support to victims of
sex trafficking. She is an alleged victim of the sex trafficking ring of
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( ; January 20, 1953August 10, 2019) was an American sex offender and financier. Epstein, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan, des ...
.
Giuffre created Victims Refuse Silence, a non-profit based in the United States, in 2015,
which was relaunched under the name Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) in November 2021. She has given a detailed account to many American and British reporters about her experiences of being trafficked by Epstein and
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell ( ; born 25 December 1961) is a British convicted sex offender and former socialite. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the financier and convicted sex o ...
.
Giuffre has pursued criminal and civil actions against Epstein and Maxwell, and has appealed directly to the public for justice and awareness.
She sued Maxwell for defamation in 2015, and the case was settled in Giuffre's favor for an undisclosed sum in 2017. On July 2, 2019, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York and Vermont. The court has appellate ju ...
ordered the unsealing of documents from the earlier civil suit by Giuffre against Maxwell. The first batch of documents from Giuffre's suit were released to the public on August 9, 2019, further implicating Epstein, Maxwell, and a number of their associates. The following day, August 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell.
In an October 2019 interview for
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's ''
Panorama'', aired on December 2, Giuffre described her alleged experiences of being sex trafficked by Epstein for Britain's
Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger brother of King Charles III and the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince ...
, which helped shift public opinion against the prince.
Early life
Virginia Giuffre was born Virginia Louise Roberts
in
Sacramento, California
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, on August 9, 1983, to parents Sky and Lynn Roberts.
The family relocated to
Loxahatchee in
Palm Beach County, Florida, when she was four years old.
Giuffre has a younger brother.
It was reported that she had come from a "troubled home"
and, from the age of seven, was
molested
Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using force or by taking advantage of another. Molestation often refers to an instance of sexual assau ...
by a close family friend.
"I was just so mentally scarred already at such a young age, and I ran away from that," she said on ''
Panorama'' in 2019.
Giuffre told the ''
Miami Herald
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'' that she went from being in "an abusive situation, to being a runaway, to living in foster homes".
She lived on the streets at age 14, where she says she found only, "hunger and pain and
ore
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abuse".
Later she was abused by a 65-year-old sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger, in Miami.
Giuffre lived with Eppinger for approximately 6 months.
Eppinger reportedly ran a front business for international sex trafficking known as the modeling agency "Perfect 10".
He was raided by the
FBI
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and later pleaded guilty to charges of alien smuggling for prostitution, interstate travel for prostitution, and money laundering.
At the age of 14, Giuffre reunited with her father and returned to live with him. Her father worked as a maintenance manager at the
Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago ( from the Spanish for ''sea to lake'') is a resort and national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, owned by former U.S. president Donald Trump. Trump acquired Mar-a-Lago in 1985 and referred to it as his "Winter White House ...
property owned by
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
, and also helped Giuffre obtain a job there.
Association with Epstein (2000–2002)
In mid-2000,
Giuffre met
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell ( ; born 25 December 1961) is a British convicted sex offender and former socialite. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the financier and convicted sex o ...
when working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club while reading a book about massage therapy.
Maxwell, a British socialite and daughter of the late media tycoon
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, member of parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.
Early in his life, Maxwell escaped from N ...
, approached Giuffre, noted the book that she was reading, inquired about her interest in massage, and offered her a potential job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse with the assurance that no experience was necessary.
When Giuffre arrived at Epstein's Palm Beach home, she says he was naked lying down and Maxwell told her how to massage him. "They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then - I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused… That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was," Giuffre stated.
Giuffre has stated that after Maxwell introduced her to Jeffrey Epstein, the two quickly began
grooming her to provide sexual services under the guise that she was to be trained as a professional massage therapist.
Between 2000 and 2002, Giuffre was closely associated with Epstein and Maxwell, traveling between Epstein's residences in Palm Beach and Manhattan (at the
Herbert N. Straus House), with additional trips to Epstein's Zorro ranch in New Mexico and private island
Little Saint James. In the ''Miami Herald''s investigative journalism series "Perversion of Justice", Giuffre describes her experiences of being trafficked by Epstein to provide massages and sexual services for him and a number of his business associates over a two-and-a-half-year period. In her interview with the
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, Giuffre said she was "passed around like a platter of fruit" to Epstein's powerful associates, and taken round the world on private jets. ''Virginia Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell'' (2015)
As a result of Giuffre's allegations and Maxwell's comments about them, Giuffre sued Maxwell for ''Virginia Giuffre v. Alan Dershowitz'' (2019)
In April 2019, Giuffre filed a federal civil defamation lawsuit against Alan Dershowitz in New York. ''Virginia Giuffre v. Prince Andrew'' (2021)
On August 9, 2021, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Britain's ''Rina Oh v. Virginia Giuffre'' (2021)
Rina Oh sued Giuffre for defamation in October 2021. Giuffre accused Oh of helping traffick girls for Epstein, while Oh maintains that she was a victim and that she has never helped traffickers. In 2022 in court documents Oh accused Giuffre of touching her sexually without consent while Epstein watched, but Giuffre denied the claim. She alleged Oh slashed her during sado masochistic games done for Epstein, but Oh denied this. Oh also alleges that Guiffre procured and abused minors.