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Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, recounted her traumatic experience working for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the 2020 documentary “Lured” on Lifetime. (Credit: Lifetime, on Youtube<\/mark><\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At 16, when she worked at the spa of President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Mar-a-Lago property, Virginia Giuffre envisioned herself becoming a masseuse to help others find a kind of healing she felt she so sorely lacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This day job \u201cgave me my first real vision of a better future,\u201d Giuffre wrote in her memoir<\/a>, Nobody\u2019s Girl<\/em>, which comes out Tuesday and tells in harrowing detail the abuse she suffered as a child and at the hands of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein hanged himself in prison while awaiting trial in 2019 and Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for facilitating his sex trafficking ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI seized on the idea that, with the right training, I could eventually make a living by helping others reduce stress,\u201d Giuffre wrote, in an excerpt<\/a> that was published by Vanity Fair. \u201cMaybe, I thought, their healing would fuel my own. For the first time in my life, I allowed a flicker of hope to build inside me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Giuffre died by suicide at age 41 in April, after spending years trying to get justice for herself and fellow victims. She writes<\/a> about how she was lent out to some of the world\u2019s richest and most powerful people, including a \u201cpolitician\u201d and a \u201cformer prime minister\u201d whom she wouldn\u2019t name, but who choked and beat her almost unconscious. She continued, \u201cI believed that I might die a sex slave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was allegedly first forced into an encounter when she was 17 with the disgraced British royal Prince Andrew, who relinquished his royal titles amid the scrutiny and allegations and on Friday announced he would no longer be known as the Duke of York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giuffre alleges that Andrew, who is King Charles\u2019 brother, hired online trolls to harass her when she brought a civil case against the prince in New York in 2022, according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-written by journalist Amy Wallace, the memoir is a brutal read, but it is \u201calso a clear-eyed and necessary account of how sex offenders operate,\u201d according to a review<\/a> in The Guardian, which also called it \u201can important, courageous, tragically posthumous book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giuffre, who also allegedly suffered abuse from her Australian husband, with whom she had three children, was found dead on her farm in a remote part of the countryside. Before her death, according to The Guardian, she wrote to Wallace: \u201cIt is my heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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