Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, said she was “delivered like a platter of fruit” as a teenager of rich and powerful predators, including the British prince. She was 41 years old.
According to a family statement, Juhur died of suicide. Jiffle (pronounced Jiff-Ree) wrote in March that she was several days away from dying of kidney failure after being injured in a crash on a school bus that she said was traveling at 70 mph.
In 2019, Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, and accused of recommending a teenage girl to be sexually increasingly sexualized massage.
Just a month after his arrest, the day after the documents were released from Ms Giuffre's honor loss lawsuit, it was discovered that Epstein had been hanged by his cells at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. His death, 66, was ruled as a suicide.
In 2009, Jufre, identified as Jane Daw 102, blamed Githraine Maxwell, the daughter of disgraceful British media giant Robert Maxwell, who accused her of recruiting her to join his sex traffic ring under professional masses.
In 2015, she was the first of Mr. Epstein's victims, giving up on anonymity and made public public, selling her story to the British tabloid on Sunday.
“Essentially, I was trained to become a prostitute for his friends who shared his interest in young girls,” Jufre was quoted as saying Nigel Cowthorne's book, Virginia Jufre: The incredible life story of a billionaire massage.
“Gislaine told me I had to do what I did for Jeffrey for Andrew,” she said.
Juhull accused billionaire investor Epstein and British socialite Maxwell of forcing him to have sex with Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York. He completely denied the charges, but in 2019 he abandoned his royal duties.
In 2021, she sued the Prince, Charles II's younger brother, and sexually assaulted her at Maxwell's house in London, Epstein's house in the Virgin Islands and Little St. James.
The widely publicized photo shows Prince Andrew holding his hands over his waist. He said he had no recollection of the opportunity.
After Prince Andrew agreed to settle Giuffre's lawsuit in 2022, he praised her in a statement of his remarks, pledging to “show regret” about his relationship with Epstein “by supporting the fight against the evil of sex trafficking and supporting the victims.”
The settlement included private amounts paid to her and her charity.
In an interview and deposition, Giuffre said she was adopted by the sex ring in 2000 when she was invited to travel to Epsto's Massays while working as an attendant in the locker room at President Trump's Mar Arago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, when she was reading the massage therapy manual when she approached the massage therapy manual on her account and was invited to travel to Epsto's Massays. She said the two groomed her to provide sexual services for wealthy men.
She sued Maxwell in 2015 for a loss of honor. They settled on private amounts in 2017. Maxwell's 2022 trial and conviction were seen as legal calculations that Epstein embraced the justice system and his victims. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Virginia Louise Roberts was born in Sacramento on August 9, 1983 to Sky and Lynn Roberts. When she was four years old, the family moved to Palm Beach County, and her father was the maintenance manager at Mar-A-Lago.
She said she ran away from home after being abused by a close family friend since she was seven years old. She was placed in a foster home, and with her aunt in California, she fled to the former hippie heaven of Hate Ashbury in San Francisco, where she lived on the streets for six months at the age of 14.
Compared to living on the street and earning $9 an hour from a summer job at Mar-a-Lago, Epstein wrote that the offer to give a massage several times a day “Virginia decided she couldn't refuse.”
But her mission has gone far beyond that. She told the BBC in 2019 that Epstein's friend was “delivered like a platter of fruit,” and told the BBC she ferries around the world on a private jet.
In 2002, when she was 19 years old, she was registered at an international training massage school in Thailand and became a professional masseuse, and was assigned to recruit young girls for the ring. There, she met Robert Giuffre, an Australian martial arts instructor, and they got married.
The couple had three children and lived in Australia, Florida and Colorado before settling in Perth in 2020. They then separated. The complete list of survivors was not immediately available.
Giuffle told the Miami Herald in 2019 that the birth of her daughter in 2010 encouraged her to speak publicly about her sacrifice. She also explained why she agreed to Groom her as a masseuse and provide sexual services to Mr. Epstein and Maxwell.
“They looked like nice people, so I trusted them, and I told them I had a really struggle with my life up until then – I was out of control, I was sexually abused, I was physically abused,” Juhur said. “That was the worst thing I told them, because they knew how vulnerable I was now.”
Hank Sanders Reports of contributions.
