‘Never Tell a Soul What Goes on in This House’: Memoir of Late Epstein Victim Reveals Further Disturbing Details

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An extract from the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, the well-known victim of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has shone further light on the extensive abuse she says she experienced while working for the well-connected financier. The book, titled ‘Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’, which will be published next week, details her claims to have been sex-trafficked by Epstein to prominent politicians, the wealthy and Prince Andrew of the British royal family.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]Ahead of publication on October 21, an extract from the book gives more details on her claims about how she met Epstein and how he groomed her, then “loaned” Giuffre out to his contacts. The extract also reveals how Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year, was threatened by Epstein never to speak about what happened by making threats against her younger brother.“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein allegedly warned Giuffre. “He let that sink in for a moment, then got to the point: ‘You must never tell a soul what goes on in this house.’ He was smiling, but his threat was clear,” Giuffre wrote.She then said he told her complaining to the police would be pointless.“And I own the Palm Beach police department,” Epstein told Giuffre. “So they won’t do anything about it.”Giuffre, who was 16 at the time, wrote that as Epstein made his threat, he showed her photographs of her brother.The teenage Giuffre was employed by Epstein after being initially approached by the financier’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, while she worked at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Giuffre details the first time that she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell while giving the former a massage. Epstein also encouraged Giuffre to work for him full-time, rather than continue her work at Trump’s resort. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison.In July, Trump told reporters that Epstein had “stolen” a number of young women who worked for him, including Giuffre, who said she met President Trump in 2000. “Trump couldn’t have been friendlier,” her memoir reads.In recent comments, the US leader has said Giuffre was “taken” by Epstein. “He stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.”Trump’s relationship with Epstein has been continuously in the spotlight over recent months. In September, a birthday letter, alleged to have been signed by Trump and addressed to Epstein, was published. It was one of several letters said to be written by high-profile figures for a book celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.The White House staunchly denied that Trump wrote Epstein the birthday note, but stopped short of calling the documents fake.During a state visit to the United Kingdom later that month, protestors projected images of the President and Epstein onto Windsor Castle, where Trump was staying. Closer to home in Washington D.C., a statue depicting Trump and Epstein holding hands has been put on display twice on the National Mall in front of the U.S Capitol building. The possibility of Trump also pardoning Maxwell, who was convicted in June 2022, has also come into question. Trump seemed to leave the door open for a pardon when asked in the Oval Office on October 6  if he would consider granting her clemency for Maxwell’s child sex trafficking offenses. “You know, I haven’t heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look,” Trump told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins.Giuffre’s memoir included further details of her alleged abuse once she became employed full-time by Epstein, with other young girls experiencing the same assault. “Epstein and Maxwell held me to my promise to be available at all times. Some days, the call would come in the morning. I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well.”The extract also includes details of Giuffre’s allegations of having sex with British royal and the son of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew. Whilst staying at Maxwell’s London home, Giuffre said Andrew was “entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”Giuffre also alleges in the memoir that she had sex with Andrew on two more occasions, the third of which also involved Epstein and a number of other girls who appeared to be “under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English,” on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The ex-wife of Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson, was recently dropped by a number of U.K. charities after her communications with Epstein over email surfaced.The Duchess of York called the convicted sex offender a “supreme friend” in 2011.