| CLAIRE HOWORTH,
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre has been a familiar name for years—but when she was just 16, working at the Mar-a-Lago spa, she couldn't have imagined the tragic weight her name would one day carry. That's where Ghislaine Maxwell first approached her, setting in motion the grooming and abuse that would define Jeffrey Epstein's horrific crimes—for which both he and Maxwell were eventually charged.
After escaping their grip, Giuffre dedicated her life to exposing them and advocating for survivors. In April, she died by suicide—but she left behind a powerful legacy: Nobody's Girl, a devastating memoir of her experience.
Today, Vanity Fair exclusively published the first excerpt, detailing the pivotal moment at Mar-a-Lago that changed everything. |
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE |
"I can still remember walking onto the manicured grounds of Mar-a-Lago for the first time."
Just weeks before her death, Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote to her collaborator on the book, Amy Wallace, "The content of this book is crucial…. It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness. In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that Nobody's Girl is still released." This first excerpt of her memoir, exclusive to Vanity Fair, takes place during the summer of 2000, when Giuffre was 16 years old and worked in the spa at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. |
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"I don't enjoy repeating this story; it hurts to relive what I did and what was done to me. What's more, as I describe the chronology, transgression by transgression, I worry that the awful details distract from a broader truth. Yes, I was sexually abused. My body was used in ways that did enormous damage to me. But the worst things Epstein and Maxwell did to me weren't physical, but psychological." |
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The former FBI director just wouldn't yield the stage—which is surely one reason he drives Trump so crazy. |
Murdaugh: Death in the Family, Hulu's new fictionalized take on the slaying of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh—among other crimes—is a Lowcountry boil of guns, pills, booze, and money. |
New York business leaders admit Mamdani "listens, asks questions, and is amiable," reports The New York Times. But it doesn't mean they'll vote for him. |
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Indie darling Cole Doman snagged the biggest job of his career so far, The Savant, an Apple TV series about white extremists, but no one's seen it yet and he's not sure when they will. Apple decided to postpone the series' release after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was killed on September 10. The boyish, impossibly blond actor talks to VF about working with Jessica Chastain, starring in Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, and Apple TV's decision.
"We are in a period as a society of dislocation and polarization. The thing that provides complexity is art. Art is the thing that can endure when our truth is being skewed and language is controlled and censored." Like Jessica Chastain, his costar, Doman doesn't believe in taking The Savant off air entirely. "In censoring art and our show in particular in this moment, we are robbing people of seeing more complexity." |
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