The ‘Client List’, Mar-A-Lago, and celebrity parties: All the biggest Trump-Epstein revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir
The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, who survived years of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, divulges a host of new details, including revelations linked to the Epstein Files.
Nobody’s Girl, published Tuesday, is Giuffre’s harrowing, and often graphic testimony, of how she was sex trafficked to scores of rich and powerful men, in a rarefied world that brought her in contact with Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, billionaires, academics and powerful politicians.
The greatest revelations concerned the disgraced British royal Prince Andrew, who reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022 and has continued to vehemently denied wrongdoing. The Duke of York stepped back from public life five years ago in light of the accusations, and issued a new statement this week saying he would no longer use his title or honors.
Giuffre’s decision to speak out about her ordeal helped unravel Epstein’s sex abuse scheme. The disgraced financier died by suicide in July 2019 while in prison awaiting federal trial. His accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 on charges related to her role in the scheme to abuse minor girls.
Giuffre, 41, died by suicide in April. “She wanted the world to know who she really was so that survivors of abuse who might read her words would feel less alone,” Amy Wallace, Giuffre’s collaborator on the memoir, wrote in the introduction.
In the new book, Giuffre suggested that Epstein could have blackmailed powerful friends and associates by videotaping them with underage girls in his various homes. He had a “huge library of videotapes” and a control room in his Manhattan townhouse where he monitored camera feeds that were set up in his properties, Giuffre wrote.
“He’d always suggested to me that those videotapes he so meticulously collected in the bedrooms and bathrooms of his various homes gave him power over others,” Giuffre wrote.
“He explicitly talked about using me and what I’d been forced to do with certain men as a form of blackmail, so these men would owe him favors.”
Speculation continues over the existence of an Epstein “Client List”, where he supposedly kept a ledger of rich, famous and powerful names involved in his trafficking ring.
In July, the Trump administration’s Justice Department issued a memo stating there was no evidence to support the existence of a client list. The Independent has contacted the Justice Department for comment on the new details from Giuffre’s memoir.
The DOJ’s July memo also reiterated earlier findings that Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell, and said no further investigation was warranted.
But Giuffre appeared doubtful of those findings in her memoir. “I can make a case for either suicide or murder,” she wrote.
Epstein “bragged about his access to power” and his “self-described ‘biological’ need for sex,” but being behind bars allowed him access to neither “the young girls he loved to abuse or the powerful men he yearned to rub shoulders with,” she wrote. “That certainly would have made him want to end it all.”
She cited Epstein’s gathering of videotapes as a reason that he could have been murdered.
