OPINION - Beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre hits back at her tormentors

Beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre can still turn the tables on her tormentors. Of course, the villain of her story is dead, Jeffrey Epstein, having died while in prison facing charges of sex trafficking, but the familiar charges have a dreadful resonance. The Guardian today publishes extracts from her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (out on Monday), and, even edited and presumably redacted, they are hard to read without flinching. Perhaps the most poignant aspect is her initial optimism when, as a young assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort (no, nothing happened there), she was allowed in the vicinity of famous visitors. Then she was spotted and followed by Ghislaine Maxwell: “I didn’t know it yet, but an apex predator was closing in”, she writes.

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