He was obsessed with the feet of Virginia Giuffre, the 17-year-old girl his friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwel had selected for him. “He started massaging them and sucking on my arch. It was the first time they had done something like that to me and it tickled me. I got nervous thinking he would want me to do the same thing. But I didn’t have to worry about that. He was in a hurry to have sex. Afterwards, he thanked me in his broken British accent. In my memory, it all happened in less than half an hour,” says Giuffre (Nobody’s Girl: Memoirs). of Survival against Abuse and Fight for Justice). The diary The Guardian has published a fragment of the long-awaited book.
Isabel II’s second son was then 41 years old, more than twice as old as the victim. It was March 10, 2001, and the billionaire and his friend Ghislaine, the socialite British woman who introduced him to a world of celebrities and luxury and who collected minors to fulfill his sexual fantasies, they had flown from the United States to London to spend a few days in the apartment that Epstein had near Hyde Park. They took with them Virginia—Jenna, they called her, the name by which her family had addressed her since she was a child—who by then was already a regular company at all their social events.
“Guess Jenna’s age,” Maxwell challenged his friend Andrés when he introduced him to the young woman. The Duke of York hit the nail on the head. “My daughters are just a little smaller than you,” he explained his success. “We’re going to have to exchange her soon,” the British woman replied, in a dubious joke in bad taste about how Giuffre was beginning to get older.
“Years have passed and I have thought a lot about how he behaved that night. He was cordial enough, but very aware of his privileges. He believed that having sex with me was his birthright,” Giuffre recalls. The next morning, Epstein gave him a $15,000 reward and congratulated him: “You did very well. The prince had fun.”
There were two more sexual encounters with Prince Andrew. In New York, a month later. It was in another of the American millionaire’s houses. From that meeting, affirming its falsehood. Andrés grabs the waist of Giuffre, who is wearing printed jeans and a pink top that exposes her waist. “My mother would never have forgiven me for meeting someone as famous as Prince Andrew and not taking a photo. I ran to get my Kodak FunSaver, which was in my room, came back and gave it to Epstein. I remember how the prince put his arm around my waist while Maxwell smiled behind us. Epstein took the photo,” Giuffre describes.
There was a third occasion, he recalls in his memoirs. On a huge island, owned by a millionaire, in the Virgin archipelago. “Epstein, Andy [el diminutivo de Andrés]approximately eight other girls and I had sex together. “All of them appeared to be under 18 years old and did not speak English,” he says.
Virginia Giuffe closed a multimillion-dollar extrajudicial agreement with the Duke of York in February 2022, to settle the lawsuit she had filed for sexual abuse against the son of Elizabeth II. The figure provided by the prince, who never officially admitted his guilt, was never made public. The British press spoke of about 14 million euros. A large part of them came from the personal assets of the then queen of England.
Three years later, on April 25, 2025, Giuffre committed suicide. Her posthumous memoirs now settle her personal account with a past that was never told as she would have wanted.
Mar-a-Lago y Donald Trump
Giuffre says that her access to Epstein’s sordid world began in, she has owned it since 1985. The young woman’s father was in charge of maintaining the air conditioning system, something essential in that hot and humid area of American Florida.
She soon went to work at the club to perform menial tasks, and her father, who proudly displayed her photos with Trump, soon introduced her to the real estate magnate. “Do you like children?” she asked her kindly, then explained that she could babysit the children of one of the families staying in the homes surrounding the club.
But her real entry into Epstein’s world occurred when Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her from her vehicle as she walked to work. Giuffre later found out that this “predator from high places” had slowly followed her throughout the journey.
Maxwell made his approach a few days later, when he saw the young Giuffre behind the spa’s marble reception desk, reading an anatomy book. “That girl thought that by studying that book she would find something she had never had in her life: a goal.” He dreamed, he says, of working as a masseuse for all those billionaires.
The socialite British seduced her to go to Epstein’s house one night, at 358 El Brillo Way. When he led her to the room where the billionaire was, he was already waiting for them naked on a stretcher, lying on his back. Under the pretext of teaching her how to give massages, and with the complicity of Epstein, who asked her things like her age, what her first sexual relationship had been like or if she took contraceptives, and who kept joking that she was a “naughty girl,” they ended up forcing her to have a sexual threesome.
“A void that was already familiar flooded me again,” says Giuffre, who had made the mistake of confessing to Epstein how she had suffered sexual abuse years before in her family environment. “How many times had I put my trust in someone only to end up hurt and humiliated? I could feel my brain shutting down. My body couldn’t escape that room, but my mind couldn’t bear the thought of staying. I went into autopilot mode: submissive and determined to survive,” Giuffre recalls.
Epstein kept the young woman as a kind of pet, which he took on all his trips and parties. Giuffre responds in her memoirs to all those who have reproached her for choosing to remain in that environment. “Many of us have been raped or abused as children. We were poor or homeless. Girls that no one cared about. And Epstein intended to do it. A master manipulator, he seemed to throw a lifeline to girls who were drowning,” she explains.
Giuffre is careful to remind the future reader that Epstein was not an isolated case, but rather the concrete manifestation of the way in which many powerful men treat women and girls, “convinced of being above the law.” “And don’t be fooled by all those in Epstein’s circle who claim that they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein not only didn’t hide it, but he enjoyed the fact that others saw it (…) And the others saw it, and they didn’t care,” he accuses.
