In a memoir written before her suicide, Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote she was afraid to name some of the men she was sexually trafficked to.
Some of those men, she wrote, threatened to ruin her financially by keeping her tied up in court.
“There are other men whom I was trafficked to who have threatened me in another way: by asserting that they will use litigation to bankrupt me,” she wrote.
“Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” written with the journalist Amy Wallace and published Tuesday by Knopf, details Giuffre’s years in Epstein’s orbit.
According to Giuffre, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sexually abused her and trafficked her to “scores of wealthy, powerful people” in the early 2000s, when she was a teenager.
While Giuffre’s book names some of those people — like Prince Andrew — the identities of others are not made clear.
Giuffre said she was particularly frightened of a man she called “the former Prime Minister,” who she believed “will seek to hurt me if I say his name here.”
“He repeatedly choked me until I lost consciousness and took pleasure in seeing me in fear for my life,” Giuffre wrote of the former head of state. “Horrifically, the Prime Minister laughed when he hurt me and got more aroused when I begged him to stop.”
Giuffre also said she was terrified of one man whom she saw having a sexual encounter with Epstein.
“I have the same fears about another man whom I was forced to have sex with many times — a man whom I also saw having sexual contact with Epstein himself,” she wrote. “I would love to identify him here. But this man is very wealthy and very powerful, and I fear that he, too, might engage me in expensive, life-ruining litigation.”
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Giuffre, who died in April, said some of the men who sexually abused her issued threats to her lawyers.
“One of those men’s names has come up repeatedly in various court filings, and in response, he has told my lawyers that if I talk about him publicly, he will employ his vast resources to keep me in court for the rest of my life,” she wrote in the book. “While I have named him in sworn depositions and identified him to the FBI, I fear that if I do so again here, my family will bear the emotional and financial brunt of that decision.”
Giuffre was among the most prominent Epstein accusers who publicly told her story, speaking out against the wealthy and well-connected financier.
She received settlements from Epstein and Prince Andrew in civil lawsuits, and filed a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell that spilled much of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation into open view.
Giuffre had several high-powered lawyers on her side, including David Boies and Sigrid McCawley of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Florida-based attorney Brad Edwards, and former federal judge Paul Cassell.
Epstein killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to him for sex.
In her book, Giuffre wrote she was trafficked to “a gubernatorial candidate who was soon to win election in a Western state and a former US senator,” and that she had sex with a billionaire while his pregnant wife slept in an adjoining room, among others.
Giuffre previously named individuals fitting some of those descriptions in court documents, but they are not all named in her book.
