(Washington) The Memoirs of Virginia Giuffre, the main accuser in the case of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will be published on October 21 posthumously, after his suicide in April, wrote the Pinguin Random House publishing house.
This announcement comes when Donald Trump’s administration, himself close to Jeffrey Epstein until the mid-2000s, tried to put an end to criticism accusing him of lack of transparency on the case of this financier found dead in prison in New York in 2019 before his trial for sexual crimes.
Virginia Giuffre was the main voice of Epstein victims before her suicide in Australia in April, at the age of 41. She accused the American financier of having used him as a “sex slave” at the turn of the 2000s.
According to Virginia Giuffre, his meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, then partner of Jeffrey Epstein and accomplice of the latter, took place in the summer of 2000, during a summer job at the Mar-A-Lago residence, owned by Donald Trump in Florida. She is 16 years old.
“Here, Giuffre delivers an uncompromising story of his experience with Epstein and Maxwell, who prostitute her, with others, for the benefit of many influential men,” writes the publishing house Le Penguin Random House.
Virginia Guffre had engaged prosecution in 2021 against Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III of England, met through Jeffrey Epstein, whom she accused of sexual assault when she was a minor.
Photo Court of the United States District for the South New York District, Agence France-Presse Archives
Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell
Andrew has always denied charges of sexual assault and has avoided New York a trial by paying several million dollars.
Entitled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justiceher memoirs also tell “sexual assault” of which she says she was a child’s victim, specifies even Penguin Random House, as well as the way in which she escaped “the claws of Epstein and Maxwell at 19”.
Ghislaine Maxwell had been sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for recruiting between 1994 and 2004 minor girls so that Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploited them.
Figure like Jeffrey Epstein of the New York jet set in the 1990s and 2,000, Donald Trump was himself close to the financier until the mid-2000s.
On Friday, the American Department of Justice published the content of a recent interview with Ghislaine Maxwell in which Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice claims to have “never” observed from Donald Trump’s inappropriate attitude with his entourage.
