Nobody’s Girl: Giuffre recounts years of sexual abuse and trafficking

Virginia Giuffre describes years of sexual abuse by her father and a family friend in a posthumous memoir to be published next week.

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice tells the story of how she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell at the age of 16 to work as a masseuse for Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile financier.

Giuffre, who died by suicide at the age of 41 in April, says her early experience of abuse meant she was a “perfect victim” for the pair.

“I know about monsters,” she wrote. “As a child, I experienced nearly every kind of abuse: Incest, parental neglect, severe corporal punishment, molestation, rape.

“As a teen, I had been sexually trafficked by another paedophile even before I met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Her troubled teenage years were used by supporters of Epstein to cast doubt on her allegations that the billionaire abused the teenager.

In her book, which The Telegraph obtained a copy of ahead of its publication next week, she wrote that it was time to tell the whole story.

It paints a picture of a girl who endured horrific abuse, long before she was spotted by Maxwell.

Born in 1983, it begins with a modest but happy early childhood. She lived in Florida with her mother, Lynn, and father, Sky Roberts, and tells of her joy at being given a pony, Alice.

Things changed, she wrote, when her father started getting her ready for bed, tucking her in and cuddling her.

She described how one day he made her stand up in the bath so that he could clean between her legs.

“That night in my room, Dad touched me in ways nobody had before,” she wrote.

He told me I was his special girl, his favourite, and that this was his way of giving me “extra love”.

“He used his fingers at first. Then, days later, his mouth.”

She did her best to put him off, declaring herself a “big girl” who could bathe herself, or hiding under the bed’s box spring.

“The bedtime rituals ended, but the abuse didn’t,” she wrote.

Her mother became cold and remote, she continued, and began whipping her with thorny rose branches while wondering aloud whether she had come home from the hospital with the wrong baby.

She developed a succession of urinary tract infections, mystifying nurses and a doctor who told her mother that her hymen was broken.

“Oh, she rides horseback,” was the explanation, according to Giuffre’s account.

The infections became so severe that she was nicknamed “pee girl” at school.

Things took an ever darker turn when she was introduced to Forrest, a friend of her father’s, and his daughter Sheila.

One evening, her father, mother, and Forrest were drinking beer on the porch when one of the men suggested that they “trade” the girls for a night.

“I’ll never know the exact date I was first left with Forrest,” she wrote. “I do remember that it was with my father’s permission.”

Giuffre has previously described suffering abuse at the hands of a family friend. But it is the first time she has accused her father of abusing her.

“When I began working with a collaborator on this book, I had never said publicly that my father molested me and then gave me to another man to molest,” she wrote.

She described how the two men’s abuse was so similar it seemed that they must have been “comparing notes”.

After Forrest raped Giuffre, her father did the same, according to the book.

Years later, Giuffre reconnected with Sheila, who said she had already suffered years of abuse by then.

She later managed to get a restraining order against her father and went to live with another relative.

“From what Sheila and I have pieced together, it seems that at this point, Forrest turned his attention to me.”

He later served 14 months in prison for abusing a girl in North Carolina and spent 10 years on the sex offenders register.

In a note to Giuffre’s collaborator, Sky Roberts denied abusing his daughter and said men who took advantage of young children should be “castrated”.

“Just to straighten this out, I never abused my daughter and didn’t know that Forrest did that either. If I had known about that, I would have been very angry and taken care of the situation,” he said, according to the book.

“I gave my daughter everything she ever wanted and never touched her sexually.”

Giuffre had dreams of becoming a veterinarian but her school grades collapsed. She was sent to Growing Together, a notorious “treatment centre” that was later investigated and closed down.

The chapters serve as an introduction to what came next in her story: ending up on the streets, raped by older teens and a driver who picked her up hitchhiking, and then picked up by Ron Eppinger, a Miami-based sex trafficker who ran a fake modelling agency called “Perfect 10”.

In some accounts of this period in her life, when she was still only 15, Giuffre has been described as a willing participant in prostitution.

Giuffre wrote that she was intent on setting the record straight.

“I was a defeated, hopeless child,” she explained. “I knew what was happening wasn’t right.

“Soon after Eppinger began trafficking me to his friends, I knew how it felt to be a puppy picked from a litter just hoping its new owner wasn’t the whipping kind. I was merely trying to survive.”

There is a brief respite when she is sent to a horse ranch in northern Florida, where she is able to reconnect with her love of animals. But even there she is forced to “sexually service” the owner of the ranch.

She ends up being “given” to an associate of Eppinger, where she gets caught up in an FBI raid and returned to her family.

By then her father has a job at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club, and finds work for her there.

The rest of the book describes how she was spotted by Maxwell as she walked to work one morning, and taken to meet Epstein.

For the next two years, she was abused and raped by a succession of Epstein’s associates.

Why, she asks for the reader, did she stay? Why did girls like her keep returning to the billionaire’s “lair” even when they knew what he wanted?

“Before meeting Epstein, one of his victims had watched her father beat an eight-year-old boy to death; another was present when her boyfriend killed himself,” she wrote, answering her question.

“We were girls who no one cared about, and Epstein pretended to care.”

On Friday, Prince Andrew, whom Giuffre claimed abused her, was forced to give up his royal titles after it emerged he had stayed in touch with Epstein longer than he had previously admitted, it was reported. Andrew denies any wrongdoing.