Most of the world came to know Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2011, when she began speaking out about the abuse she endured at the hands of some of the world’s most powerful men. In court filings, Giuffre described being sexually abused and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein when she was as young as 16 years old.
She accused Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of luring her into that world from Mar-a-Lago, where she worked as a locker room attendant at the spa. Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, but died by suicide in his jail cell in August that same year while awaiting trial.
Giuffre spoke after his death, continuing to demand justice.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein Survivor:
I want to start by saying it’s not how Jeffrey died, but it’s how he lived. And we need to get to the bottom of everybody who was involved with that, starting with Ghislaine Maxwell and going along the lines there.
I was recruited at a very young age from Mar-a-Lago and entrapped in a world that I didn’t understand. And I have been fighting that very world to this day, and I won’t stop fighting. I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice.
