Virginia Giuffre‘s posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, includes shocking details of Giuffre’s trafficking and abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as many of their prominent friends, who included celebrities, politicians and businessmen.
While she spared few details about the alleged sexual assault and coercion she faced during her time with Epstein, Giuffre — who died by suicide in April at the age of 41 — did leave some of the more infamous figures unnamed, offering only small clues about their possible identities.
“I came to be trafficked to a multitude of powerful men,” she wrote. “Among them were a gubernatorial candidate who was soon to win an election in a Western state and a former U.S. senator.”
“Since Epstein usually neglected to introduce me to these men by name, or introduce them at all, I would only learn who some of them were years later, when I studied photographs of Epstein’s associates and recognized the faces of those I was forced to have sex with.”
Giuffre previously alleged in a 2016 deposition that she was directed to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Maine Sen. George Mitchell — who match the descriptions in her memoir — though neither man was criminally charged and both denied her accusations.
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre, with a photo of herself as a teen
One of Giuffre’s most harrowing stories in the book comes at the hands of another political figure, whose identity remains unclear.
“Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse for me, they did; Epstein trafficked me to a man who raped me more savagely than anyone had before,” she wrote, adding that the man — whom she had purposefully only described as a “well-known prime minister” in court filings — “wasn’t interested in caresses.”
“He wanted violence,” she claimed. Giuffre went on to allege that the prime minister choked her repeatedly until she lost consciousness and laughed at her pain, finding pleasure in her telling him to stop. She said when she left the encounter, she was bleeding from her mouth, vagina and anus.
In the book, Giuffre recalled “tearfully begging” Epstein not to send her back to the prime minister — whose nationality was not specified — but Epstein was reportedly unsympathetic.
“I don’t know if Epstein feared the man or if he owed him a favor, but he wouldn’t make any promises, saying coldly of the politician’s brutality, ‘You’ll get that sometimes,’ ” she wrote.
Though Giuffre did not identify the governor, senator or prime minister by name in her book, she mentioned other notable figures who once found themselves in Epstein’s orbit.
She told stories about her alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew, claiming that before they had sex for the first time, he guessed her age — 17 — correctly.
“In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved,” she wrote. “He was friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
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Former President Bill Clinton was not named as one of the men she was forced to have sex with, but she did bring up his broader association with Epstein and Maxwell — which has been reported about previously — though Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing and maintains that he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes.
“Maxwell was proud of her friendships with famous people, especially men,” she wrote. “She loved to talk about how easily she could get former President Bill Clinton on the phone; she and Epstein had visited the White House together when Clinton was in office.”
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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 1997
Clinton, of course, isn’t the only U.S. president with ties to Epstein. While Donald Trump has attempted to downplay his former friendship with the billionaire predator in recent years, it’s been a tough sell — and not just because he famously called Epstein a “terrific guy” in a 2002 interview with New York magazine.
On Sept. 3, several of Epstein’s alleged victims gave a joint press conference on Capitol Hill, and one, former actress Chauntae Davies, shared that Epstein loved to boast about his friendship with Trump.
“[Epstein’s] biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump,” Davies said. “He had an 8×10 framed picture of him on his desk, with the two of them. They were very close.”
The press conference was part of an ongoing, bipartisan call for the Trump administration to release the Epstein files. While Trump campaigned on the promise of releasing the evidence in 2024, he and senior members of his administration — like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel — have continued to backpedal and sidestep the issue since taking office, despite recently being questioned under oath.
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