Innocence lost: Virginia Giuffre never needed a prince, she just needed someone to trust

You might not recognize the name, but you know the impact she had. You may have even missed the news of her passing, recently, on April 25, 2025.

She took down a financier who was once believed to have been worth around $600 million. She took down a British royal family member. She has caused presidents, politicians, and other famous celebrities to shake in their boots, look over their shoulder, and lose sleep at night.

If you are of a certain age, odds are you've seen her in this famous picture:

That's her in the middle. Her name is Virginia Giuffre. Back then, she was Virginia Roberts, but no one who knew her back then cared what her name was. All they cared about was that see was a nice, young, piece of ass.

She was 17 in this picture. The guy on the left is Prince Andrew. He would have been 41 in this picture. After this picture was taken, the two, allegedly, had sex. It wasn't the only time (allegedly).

Prince Andrew had been "introduced" to this young girl by an individual who would have been 58 years old around the time of this photo in 2001. The young girl had no idea she would be meeting Andrew that day. That morning, she was told, "You are going to meet a prince today."

Now what young girl hasn't dreamed of someday meeting a prince? What little girl has never played with their princess dolls and fantasized about one day being a princess herself? Every child has seen or heard of Frozen and Cinderella. Most every little girl has been to Magic Kingdom in Disney World.

Well, sometimes dreams do come true, but sometimes those dreams aren't what they are made out to be.

Sometimes dreams are better off left as dreams.

Dreams can be illusions disguised as nightmares, and when Virginia did get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet an actual prince, it was as far from charming as you could, possibly, get.

Giuffre had a rough life right from the start. She was born in 1983 in Sacramento, California. Her family life wasn't ideal. At the age of four, she moved to Florida. Starting at the age of seven, she was sexually molested by a family friend. By the age of 14, she had been a runaway for some time and was living on the streets.

That's when she met 65-year-old, Ron Eppinger, in Miami. Eppinger "discovered" her on the streets and wooed her by saying he worked for a modeling agency. She had "the look" he was searching for.

Eppinger wasn't a complete liar. He did own a modeling agency called "Perfect 10," but what Perfect 10 was was, in fact, a front for an international sex trafficking ring. Giuffre was caught in Eppinger's crime web for six months before he got busted in 1999.

Given a new lease on life, Giuffre tried to straighten it out. She moved back with her dad in Palm Beach who, at the time, worked maintenance at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that same Mar-a-Lago. He used whatever connections he had and got his daughter a low level job working in the spa at Donald Trump's luxurious resort.

It was while working there that Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was staying at Mar-a-Lago as a guest. She was a British socialite who was the youngest of nine children born into an extremely rich family. Maxwell is the daughter of British media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 at the age of 68.

You know how it is being the youngest child. In many cases, the older siblings are jealous of the youngest sibling because they get spoiled the most. They are the baby of the family. The perception is that they get everything they want.

Now imagine being the youngest child born into enormous wealth. This was Ghislaine – a spoiled brat who got everything she wanted and used people as her toys. Ghislaine and Virginia couldn't have been any more different.

Virginia caught Maxwell's eye because of how beautiful she was, but – Giuffre points out – more specifically, for how vulnerable and damaged she appeared. The best predators have a keen sense for picking out the weak and the timid in a crowd. Maxwell was as good as they come.

Maxwell sidled up to Giuffre and asked her what she was reading – which happened to be a book on massage techniques. Soon the conversation turned to an extremely rich "acquaintance" of Maxwell's who, it just so happened, was looking to hire someone to give massages to not only him, but also many of his rich friends.

Poor Virginia must have thought her luck had, finally, changed. She had survived the worst that life could throw at her, and now she was coming out the other side. This was the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel." She had made it, and she earned it. She had paid her dues.

She had no reason to think otherwise. She had met this stranger at Mar-a-Lago, after all. It wasn't like meeting Eppinger at night in the streets of the sleazy side of Miami.

Mar-a-Lago was a palace. Palaces were safe spaces separated from danger by moats. Moats could only be passed by lowering drawbridges. Drawbridges could only be lowered if they had the permission of the people, or person, who owned the palace. Surely, the owner of the palace wouldn't let in dangerous people.

(I hope you see what I was getting at there)

Instead of Giuffre's nightmare ending, it was about to get even worse in a way she never could have imagined. Maxwell would introduce Giuffre to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein wasn't just looking for massages, he was looking for massages with "happy endings." Eventually, Epstein just did away with the pretense and wanted only the "happy endings" part... with young girls.

Giuffre found herself, once again, caught in a web. This one was far more elaborate. The spiders were older, richer, fatter, hairier, and sweatier (see Prince Andrew).

What happened after Giuffre met Epstein and Maxwell has been well chronicled. If you want to go in depth on what happened, not only to Giuffre, but countless other young girls, I'd suggest you watch Netflix's series, titled, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.

Giuffre is the most well known victim in the Epstein case, but there are countless others. Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown didn't refer to the young women exploited by Epstein as "victims," but instead reported discovering 80 survivors of Epstein.

Virginia Giuffre, last week, however, did become a victim of Jeffrey Epstein.

The statement from her family on April 25 read:

"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.

The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily. It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realised she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others.

There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia. She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.

In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. We know that she is with the angels."

Her death – ruled a suicide – is not without suspicion, however.

Giuffre was involved in an accident with a school bus on March 24 of this year. At the time, Giuffre posted a picture on Instagram of herself all bruised up with the caption, "I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live."

The response to the actual scene of the accident was strange. A "spokesperson" (why does she have a spokesperson?) for Giuffre said this:

“On March 24, in rural Western Australia, a school bus hit the car in which she was riding. The police were called but said that there was no one available to come to the scene. They asked if anyone was injured and suggested that if they were, they should make their way to the hospital.

“The school bus driver had a bus full of distraught children and left the scene to get them back, saying he would file a police report, which he did later. Virginia was banged up and bruised and returned home.

“Virginia’s condition worsened and she was admitted to the hospital. Concerning her Instagram post, Virginia thought that she had posted on her private Facebook page.

A couple of things pop out at me right away from those quotes from the "spokesperson." The police were called but no one was available to come to the scene? Huh? Have they defunded the police in Australia or something? Did I miss the story of Australia dealing with an epidemic of kangaroo attacks?

And what about the school bus driver leaving the scene of the accident? His excuse was he had a busload of distraught kids and wanted to get them home first?

So – let me get this straight – the bus driver claims the incident was "a minor collision" and that Giuffre has "blown [the whole thing] out of proportion." If the incident was so minor, why did he feel the need to bring the "distraught" children home first? Why were they so distraught if the incident was "minor?'

The cops also made no big deal of the accident saying that it was, indeed, minor and that there were "no reported injuries." How would they know? They never went to the scene.

For an example of the social media backlash Giuffre has endured over the years, 48-year-old Victoria Hervey, who briefly dated Prince Andrew in 1999, reposted a picture that Giuffre had posted of herself all bruised up on Instagram. Hervey put the caption "KARMA" above it. Hervey also included Europe's song, "The Final Countdown," as a soundtrack for the picture.

Nice, right? She was insinuating Giuffre was in her final days of life and that it was karma for lying about sleeping with Andrew. Hervey was happy about it and she wanted the whole world to know it. That is the world we live in in a nutshell.

Was the accident a failed "hit" on Giuffre? She claimed the bus hit her slow moving car at a very high speed – upwards of 60 m.p.h.

Reportedly, Giuffre received a settlement of $12 million euros from Prince Andrew for, according to this Hervey woman, not sleeping with him. She settled with Jeffrey Epstein for a measely $500,000 in 2019. The Daily Mail reports that she bought her house in Australia for $1.9 million in November of 2020.

There are millions of reasons why people would want her dead.

In late February of this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi took heat from the Trump (remember him from earlier?) administration for saying that she planned on releasing "flight logs" and "a lot of names" included in the classified Epstein court files. Apparently, Trump never gave her permission to say or do this and the files were never fully released.

Why would Trump do such a thing?

Bondi did offer up in that FOX interview that "there are well over – this will make you sick – 200 victims... 200... well over, well over 250, actually."

Do all the people Trump surrounds himself with have to sound like him? Take it with a grain of salt, but the "over 250" that Bondi claims is much more than the 80 stated by the Miami Herald reporter.

The Bondi subsequent backtrack sounds like, to me, an inexperienced administrator who had just gotten juicy inside information, was repulsed by it, had an interview scheduled with FOX in a few minutes, knew she would make news, and offered to disclose secrets without passing it by the president's people, and then got reprimanded for it ("Are you out of your mind? Release the Epstein files???")

That just shows how quick people who have a lot to lose are quick to quash any stories related to Epstein. There are even doubts if Epstein, himself, committed suicide in prison, which is the official cause of death.

Jeffrey Epstein's own brother, Mark, hired his own forensic pathologist to look into the case and now believes Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide, but was killed in order to silence him. He points to the fact that Epstein had fractured hyoid bones, which is most often a result from strangulation and rarely anything else, including hanging.

And Virginia Giuffre's father (remember him from working maintenance at Mar-a-Lago) doesn't believe his daughter, Virginia, killed herself, either. He was quoted as saying, "No way. It's just, it's impossible." He went on to speculate that "somebody got to her."

Giuffre, herself, posted on social media in 2019 on various platforms that she was not suicidal and that if she ever turns up dead, well...

A lot has happened since 2019 in her personal life that could have changed her state of mind. Besides the bus accident in March, the last few months were not kind to Giuffre.

Her husband of 22 years, Robert Giuffre, was in court for a firearms charge on February 19 when it was revealed, for the first time, that he and his wife, Virginia, were separated. It was also revealed that Giuffre had suffered a fractured neck "a few years back."

It was also revealed in those court records that Robert had taken out a restraining order on Virginia after Virginia reported to police that she was beaten up by him on January 9, 2025. The police didn't charge him with anything and, to make matters worse, granted HIM a restraining order ON HER and gave him possession of their three children.

According to People magazine, the court believed that she was the one who became violent with him first. Such is the life of an abuse victim.

Her brother, Sky Roberts, said that "he just put his [restraining order request] in place first. He beat her to the punch. And so, now, she's on the defense." I don't know if the use of the word "punch" was so prudent. The belief is the marriage between the Giuffres was very turbulent and, often, turned violent.

On February 2, Giuffre was accused of violating the restraining order. She was set to appear in court on April 9.

In a post on Instagram on March 22, Giuffre said that she missed her three children very much and that they were being "poisoned with lies." She also wrote,

"I have been through hell & back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me, but don't take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness deepens."

It is just awful what Virginia Giuffre went through in her life. She tried so many times to get her life turned around. She had her trust in people, and humanity, betrayed time after time.

She never realized it, but she was an inspiration to so many women. She was the spark for a movement that will be read about in history books forever. She gave women their voice to stand up for themselves against some of the most prominent people in the world, including presidents and royalty. She sent a message to all those in power that you are not above the law or the rules of common decency and humanity.

May you find peace in death that you never did in life, Virginia Giuffre.