Who She Is
Virginia Roberts Giuffre grew up in poverty in Florida. By her own account she was sexually abused by a family friend starting at age 7, spent time in foster care, and was living on the streets by 14. She was working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach — her father worked there maintaining the tennis courts — when Ghislaine Maxwell approached her in the summer of 2000. She was 16 years old.
What She Says Happened
Giuffre has described being trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to powerful men around the world for more than two years. In her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl: ‘In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated — and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied. I believed that I might die a sex slave.’ She accused Prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her on three occasions — at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home, at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, and on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In a 2019 BBC Panorama interview she said: ‘I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being okay.’
What She Did About It
Giuffre filed multiple civil lawsuits against Epstein and Maxwell beginning in 2009, settling with Epstein for ,000. She filed a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2015 (Giuffre v. Maxwell), which also settled. In August 2021 she sued Prince Andrew under New York’s Child Victims Act; Andrew settled in February 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a substantial donation to her victims’ rights charity and publicly acknowledging she is ‘an established victim of abuse.’ Her testimony and lawsuits were central to Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 federal trial. Maxwell was convicted on five counts in December 2021. Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl was published by Alfred A. Knopf on October 21, 2025, per her explicit instructions.
Timeline
- 2000: Approached by Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago at age 16
- 2000-2002: Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to powerful men worldwide
- 2009: Filed civil lawsuit; settled with Epstein for \,000
- 2015: Filed defamation suit against Maxwell (Giuffre v. Maxwell)
- 2019: BBC Panorama interview accusing Prince Andrew
- 2021: Filed civil suit against Prince Andrew under New York’s Child Victims Act
- 2021: Ghislaine Maxwell convicted on five federal counts; Giuffre’s testimony was central
- 2022: Prince Andrew settled for undisclosed sum
- April 25, 2025: Died by suicide at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia, age 41
- October 2025: Posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl published by Alfred A. Knopf
Sources
- Nobody’s Girl — Posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, Alfred A. Knopf (2025)
- Giuffre v. Maxwell, 1:15-cv-07433 — CourtListener, SDNY civil defamation lawsuit
- BBC Panorama: “The Prince and the Epstein Scandal” (2019) — Virginia Giuffre’s first British television interview
- DOJ SDNY: United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell — Federal prosecution case page, including Maxwell’s December 2021 conviction
- Nobody’s Girl (memoir) — Wikipedia overview with publication details and source citations
- BBC News: Prince Andrew settles lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre (February 2022)
Information compiled from public court records, news reporting, and published accounts. This page documents survivor testimony as a matter of public record.