When Giuffre first fell into the orbit of Epstein and his partner\/aide de camp, Ghislaine Maxwell, she was a teenager who\u2019d already had long experience with sexual abuse. Her father and a family friend molested her, she writes; later, after escaping an abusive rehab facility, she was raped by a man proffering false promises of modeling gigs. In 2000, her father was working at Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and helped her get a job at the spa there. That\u2019s where, she writes, she met Maxwell and Epstein, who, offering promises of massage training, forced her into a two-year hell of sexual service. The first half of Giuffre\u2019s memoir, chronicling this experience, is at once highly disturbing and compelling reading; with the assistance of collaborator Amy Wallace, she\u2019s delivered a composed yet righteously infuriated account of how Epstein manipulated and abused her, then shared her with others. Psychological conflicts abound\u2014she appreciated the money and some of the creature comforts, but she needed to block out the abuses to appreciate them. Giuffre is careful about naming which of Epstein\u2019s famous friends she was trafficked to\u2014one \u201cwell-known Prime Minister\u201d goes unnamed, and she admits being afraid to name powerful men. \u201cFirst and foremost, I am a parent,\u201d she writes, \u201cand I won\u2019t put my family at risk if I can help it.\u201d Giuffre, however, is open about her experiences with Epstein, Prince Andrew, and the late MIT professor Marvin Minsky. The second half of the book chronicles how she balances marriage and raising a family while pursuing legal recompense for herself and other victims following Epstein\u2019s death and Maxwell\u2019s conviction. That material is less bracing, but it helps underscore the importance of the stakes for her. In light of her suicide in April 2025, it makes the story all the more tragic. She was just getting started as an activist, and her voice here is resolute and clear.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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