Virginia Giuffre

Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre ( JOO-fray; née Roberts; 9 August 1983 – 25 April 2025) was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She alleged that Epstein ran a trafficking ring, outsourcing girls for sexual services.

In March 2011, Giuffre first described meeting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Daily Mail, which reported there was "no suggestion" of sexual contact. The same month, Giuffre was interviewed by the FBI, where she alleged that Epstein and Maxwell had trafficked her to men, including Mountbatten-Windsor.

The Guardian cites Giuffre's 2011 FBI interview report. She publicly claimed she was trafficked to Andrew on 3 different occasions in a 2019 BBC interview, shifting public opinion against the prince. Andrew denied the allegations. In 2021, she filed the civil suit Giuffre v. Prince Andrew. The lawsuit was settled in February 2022. Andrew paid Giuffre an undisclosed amount, made a donation to her charity, denied wrongdoing, and settled without admission of liability.

Giuffre pursued criminal and civil actions against Epstein and Maxwell. In 2015, she sued Maxwell for defamation. The case was settled in 2017 for an undisclosed sum. In 2015, Giuffre founded Victims Refuse Silence, a United States-based non-profit organization supporting survivors of abuse, which relaunched as Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) in 2021. In 2014, she claimed Alan Dershowitz had sexually abused her (which he denied). After multiple lawsuits for defamation were filed between Giuffre and Dershowitz, both parties dropped their claims in 2022 and Giuffre said she "may have made a mistake" in identifying Dershowitz.

According to documents released in 2026 as part of the Epstein files, FBI investigators were unable to substantiate Giuffre's allegation that Epstein "lent" girls out to other powerful men, and stated in a 2019 memo that she gave "shifting accounts", and made public statements described as "sensationalized" or "demonstrably inaccurate". Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025. Her memoir, Nobody's Girl, was published posthumously in October 2025.