Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s book “Nobody’s Girl” about the exploitation of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell They subjected her for two years, she could also be called “Lonely Girl.” Throughout his story, co-written with Amy Wallace, he is moved by the continuous presence of loneliness, of helplessness from childhood until his death by suicide. His childhood was briefly happy. Her father’s sexual abuse began when she was 7 years old and lasted until she was 11.and included the abuse of a friend of the father who offered to exchange daughters. Until her last day, Virginia’s life seems to have been that of a person always exposed to the worst of situations. A chronically unprotected person who believes every time that she is going to avoid the horrible, but she is always wrong. At 14 she goes out with two boys one night and ends up raped in a car. She makes a report to the police, but the boys claim that there was no rape but consent, and this is a minor detail in their sordid adolescence.
Start working on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club, at age 16 and his uniform must have highlighted a childish, sexy and vulnerable side, the perfect mix for the predator. She feels that something good is happening to her and is going to happen to her. Sadly, the one driving by in a chauffeured car is Ghislaine Maxwel, as usual looking for very young girls for Epstein, who boasts of biologically needing (her choice of word) three orgasms a day. Ghislaine knows the characteristics of the dam and Virginia is not the first nor will she be the last. In fact, it seems to have been basically Maxwell’s main occupation, his way of securing a share in Jeffrey Epstein’s lavish life. He assures Virginia in that first meeting, before taking her to the house on Brillo Way – that’s what the street was called – that he has a simple job for her that will improve her status and give her more money. It simply consists of giving massages to a very rich man. It doesn’t tell her what kind of massages or what kind of man, because she will soon find out on her own. Neither Epstein nor Maxwell found what they did terrible, they were always entertained and very happy with their perversions. When Melinda Gates met Epstein, she defined him as the personification of the devil.
Epstein sexually uses Virginia and hands her over to his acquaintances without any problems. Partly to blackmail them or ask them for favors if they need them. It must have seemed like a good investment with which he could tempt others like him, and there were quite a few of them. The list of men to whom he offers Virginia, as if it were his property that he generously shares, is long. Among many others: a former governor, a former senator, academics, scientists, the owner of a modeling agency, a violent and cruel prime minister and a former prince (Randy Andy, as they call him, a possible translation would be Andy, the libidinous). From the photos of her at that time, one with Andrés and another on model Iman’s birthday, an air of innocence prevails in Virginia. It gives the impression that she is a girl who at any moment will start playing with a Barbie. The vain, arrogant Andrés, feeling like royalty, could not bear what she said.. No, he did not sweat profusely, he had lost the ability to sweat in the Falklands War. To deny a true accusation he resorted to a patriotic detail.
Virginia must have had the spirit of the good student, the one who always wants to please the teacher. He tried too hard in what was demanded of him and hence the desolation of everything. She was able to work hard sexually because she had already been a girl abused by adult men: her father, her father’s friend, another man with a women’s agency for paid sex, this man’s friend, the two of them already of advanced age. In her book the desire to please is repeated, the illusion that if she gives herself sexually as asked, they will appreciate her and love her.
She defends herself against the argument that it wasn’t such a bad life to be Epstein’s sexual object and to be at his disposal day and night. In fact, the first time he goes to New York and manages to free himself from Epstein and Maxwell for a few hours, when he returns to the mansion he has on 71st Street and Fifth Avenue, a building with heating on the sidewalk so that the snow melts, he finds them both upset by his absence. Some even claim that Epstein’s victims do not deserve compassion because it was a well-paid job, with trips to Paris, London, New York and stays on a Caribbean island that belonged entirely to Epstein. Perhaps thinking like this is giving too much value to money and everything it can pay for and buy.
The other argument against Virginia’s complaint is why she did not leave, why she did not free herself from that slavery. Better not to judge the very common difficulty of getting rid of what harms. She notices when she is in public places with Epstein and Maxwell that people perceive them as fathers and daughters and that image comforts her. She is outraged as if it were rude when Epstein warns her that there is no such thing as a faithful man; to be a man is logically to be unfaithful, but it is not a logic that she understands. She is not a sex professional; She is a romantic.
And as a good romantic, she falls into the most common trap: falling in love without hesitation. Finally gets Epstein and Maxwell to fulfill a promise they made at the beginning: help her become a professional masseuse. For that they pay you the best possible courses in Thailand, with a stay in a luxury hotel. This generosity is a bit surprising, but of course the offer comes with interest. Epstein wants him to find a girl there that he is interested in and that he probably wants to add to his list and to his collection of photographs of naked girls. She, on the other hand, finds the love of her life and in less than two weeks gets married, not legally yet, but in a private ceremony that represents a marriage for her. She calls Epstein to tell him the news and he hangs up immediately, wishing her happiness.
And at this point in the story, we wish you the same, but sincerely. How can we not wish that something good happens to a girl mistreated by life who wanted to be a warrior, ignoring her fragility and fighting to obtain the justice that was due to her? She achieved it, but to obtain some peace, despite all the psychological help she received from therapists, despite the mirage of a restorative marriage that also ceased to be one and an encouraging motherhood, she would have had to be someone else to achieve it. In the end, what you have to do is endless hospital stays for various physical reasons. Your immune system starts to fail and your body seems to say enough is enough too many times.. Her suicide does not end the story of a life as she told it. Like many suicides, he continues it, or rather, begins it in another way.
by Flaminia Ocampo
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