Virginia Giuffre

Virginia Louise Giuffre (/ˈdʒuːfreɪ/, JOO-fray; née Roberts; August 9, 1983 – April 25, 2025) was an Australian and American advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She alleged that Epstein ran a trafficking ring, outsourcing girls for sexual services.

In March 2011, Giuffre first described meeting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Daily Mail, who reported there was "no suggestion" of sexual contact. The same month, Giuffre was interviewed by the FBI, where she alleged that Epstein and Maxwell had trafficked her to men including Mountbatten-Windsor. She publicly claimed she was trafficked to Andrew on 3 different occasions in a 2019 BBC interview, shifting public opinion against the prince. Andrew denied the allegations. In 2021, she filed the civil suit Giuffre v. Prince Andrew. The lawsuit was settled in February 2022. Andrew paid Giuffre an undisclosed amount, made a donation to her charity, denied wrongdoing, and settled without admission of liability.

Giuffre pursued criminal and civil actions against Epstein and Maxwell. In 2015, she sued Maxwell for defamation. The case was settled in 2017 for an undisclosed sum. In 2015, Giuffre founded Victims Refuse Silence, a United States-based non-profit organization supporting survivors of abuse, which relaunched as Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) in 2021. In 2014 she claimed Alan Dershowitz sexually abused her (which he denied). After multiple lawsuits for defamation were filed between Giuffre and Dershowitz, both parties dropped their claims in 2022 and Giuffre said she “may have made a mistake” in identifying Dershowitz.

According to documents released in 2026 as part of the Epstein files, FBI investigators were unable to substantiate Giuffre's allegation that Epstein "lent" girls out to other powerful men, and stated in a 2019 memo that she gave "shifting accounts", and made public statements described as "sensationalized" or "demonstrably inaccurate". Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025. Her memoir, Nobody's Girl, was published posthumously in October 2025.

Virginia Louise Roberts was born in Sacramento, California, on August 9, 1983, to Lynn Trude Cabell and Sky William Roberts. She had a half-brother five years her senior, Daniel Scott Wilson, from her mother's previous marriage, and a brother five years her junior, Sky Rocket Roberts. The family relocated to Loxahatchee, in Palm Beach County, Florida, when she was in grade school. It was reported that she had come from a "troubled home", and from the age of seven was molested by a close family friend. She attended Royal Palm Beach High School.

In Nobody's Girl, Giuffre wrote that, between the ages of 7–11, she was sexually molested by her father who traded her to a family friend (who later became a registered sex offender for abusing another minor). Her father denied the claims. Giuffre said 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 [more] abuse".

At some point between age 13 and age 15, Giuffre was abused by a sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger, in Miami. Giuffre lived with Eppinger for approximately six months. Eppinger reportedly ran a front business for international sex trafficking known as the modeling agency "Perfect 10" and was investigated by the FBI. He later pleaded guilty to charges of alien smuggling for prostitution, interstate travel for prostitution, and money laundering. Giuffre was sent to Growing Together, a TTI (troubled teen industry) facility in Lake Worth, Florida that was later shut down after an investigation. Giuffre's father worked as a maintenance manager at the Mar-a-Lago property owned by Donald Trump, and he helped Giuffre obtain a job there in 2000.

In mid-2000, Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell when working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, while reading a book about massage therapy. Maxwell, a British socialite and daughter of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, 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 lying down, naked, 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 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.