The OTHER side of Virginia Giuffre is finally revealed as insiders expose her real role with Jeffrey Epstein – and explode her victim ‘myth’

Virginia Giuffre was hailed as a ‘fierce warrior’ for exposing the sex crimes of the rich and famous against teenage girls – but her legacy is now rocked by fresh claims that she was actually a key part of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.

Giuffre, 41, took her own life on Friday night at her farmhouse in Neergabby, north of Perth after the ‘toll of abuse… became unbearable’, according to her family.

‘She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,’ her loved ones said in a statement after her body was discovered.

Giuffre said Epstein and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell kept her as a sex slave, flying her around the world for sex with powerful associates.

But those once closest to Giuffre now say she was instrumental to Epstein’s abuse of others, and say she should have been locked up along with those she accused.

Girls she recruited for the Epstein’s ‘harem’, former friends, an ex-boyfriend and even US federal prosecutors have now branded Giuffre a ‘money-hungry…opportunist’.

Me Too advocate Molly Brown says Giuffre did nothing to help survivors of abuse, and said Giuffre’s foundation SOAR [Speak Out, Act, Reclaim] was just a facade.

‘Virginia trafficked girls, this is not a rumour this is on the record and despite this she has faced no accountability,’ Ms Brown told Daily Mail Australia.

‘While many are mourning her, some of us are breathing easier — not because of cruelty, but because real truth might finally have a chance to surface without her interference.’  

Ms Brown was initially inspired by Giuffre and reached out for support during her own battle for justice in 2020. 

But she was devastated when she was then blocked by Giuffre and publicly branded a liar. 

‘Virginia spent her final years mocking survivors, protecting her power, and lying,’ Ms Brown told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Virginia’s actions, both publicly and privately, caused tremendous harm to real survivors, myself included.

‘Her portrayal as an advocate is a myth carefully maintained at the expense of those of us who truly fought to expose the Epstein-Maxwell network.

‘Let me make this clear, Virginia was a recruiter, not a victim.’ 

Ms Brown insists that as well as her own experience, she has spoken to multiple other victims who all blame Giuffre for the years of abuse they suffered.

‘At first, like many, I believed she was brave,’ she added. ‘I wanted to. I thought she might be fighting for people like me. 

‘That illusion shattered quickly once I saw her behaviour. 

‘I reached out to Virginia because I was trafficked as an adult through the Epstein network after already surviving many predators as a young singer.

‘I assumed, wrongly, that another survivor would be a safe person to connect with. Instead, I was laughed at, publicly mocked and dismissed.’

After Giuffre received the message asking for help from Ms Brown, Giuffre posted a statement to social media to say she believed her story was fabricated and she was suffering with mental health issues. 

‘Her foundation was a façade,’ Ms Brown added. ‘It served Virginia’s image, not survivors. I never received support. 

‘I only saw branding, fundraising, and photo ops, no real action, no real help for victims.

‘Many survivors tied to Epstein’s crimes have confided that they also saw through Virginia’s act, some abused by her directly.

‘Some are too scared to speak. Some have begun speaking out. More will follow now that she no longer controls the narrative.

‘She hijacked the survivor movement to protect herself and to protect certain powerful individuals.

‘She sanitised the story to make it digestible for media and lucrative for herself — at the cost of real, still-suffering survivors.’

Key prosecution witness Carolyn Andriano was also a prominent Epstein victim but she held Giuffre personally responsible for delivering her into his evil clutches.

Andriano was found dead of an accidental overdose in a Palm Beach hotel in May 2023.

But she had previously testified at Maxwell’s trial that she was recruited by Giuffre who collected her from school and trained her to give sexual massages.

‘At 14 years old, I was big-breasted and I definitely could pass for 21 when I was made up,’ she said.

‘I did my own make-up, but Virginia gave me clothes. She gave me these really tight skimpy shorts with a spaghetti-strap top with all my cleavage hanging out.

‘She just said, “Whatever you do, don’t say your age”. And I didn’t even ask why. I went along with it.’

Andriano claimed that she and Giuffre gave Epstein a nude massage and Giuffre had sex with him.

‘I didn’t know what to do or say, or where to go, so I sat on the couch and watched until it was finished,’ she said.

Andriano was given $300 for the massage and says she returned to the villa about 100 times over the next four years where she was repeatedly abused by Epstein.

She insisted Giuffre was complicit in her abuse.

‘I don’t think Virginia deserves anything less than what Maxwell is getting because she trafficked me into a world of spiralling downward slopes,’ she added.

Giuffre even admitted she was keen to be promoted within the ‘molestation pyramid’.

‘I escalated up the ladder very quickly for Epstein,’ she confessed in a Netflix documentary. ‘I did whatever he needed.’

According to her then-boyfriend Philip Guderyon: ‘She was like the head b***h.’

Mr Guderyon claimed he drove Giuffre to and from Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, adding: ‘She’d have like nine or ten girls she used to bring to him.’

Mr Guderyon and others who knew Giuffre around the time said she was living the high life, making thousands of dollars a month before her 18th birthday.

She bought designer clothes and drove around in Epstein’s Mercedes.

‘She never looked like she was being held captive,’ Mr Guderyon said. ‘She’d have like four grand. And then I’d take them all to the mall and they’d get their nails done.’

Mr Guderyon’s sister Crystal Figueroa, revealed Giuffre often asked her for help in finding girls for Epstein.

‘She’d say to me, ‘Do you know any girls who are kind of slutty?’ Figueroa recalled.

‘She would always brag about all the money she had, I don’t think anybody was forcing her to do anything.’

In 2002 Epstein sent Virginia on a massage course in Thailand for her 19th birthday.

It was there she met Australian martial arts instructor Robert Giuffre and and the couple were married after just ten days.

They moved to the NSW Central Coast, where the FBI eventually tracked her down and told her they were building a case against Epstein.

The federal prosecutors allege that when they asked her in 2007 to assist in the investigation she said ‘…she did not want to be bothered about the Epstein matter again.’

Giuffre changed her tune two years later when she was notified about Epstein’s plea deal, which would allow her to collect civil damages.

She contacted a lawyer ‘within days’ and filed a lawsuit in Florida five months later, the federal prosecutors said.

She then accepted a settlement of $500,000 from the billionaire.

Federal prosecutors later filed a motion portraying her as an opportunist.

In 2015 Giuffre sued Ghislaine Maxwell for making defamatory statements about her and reportedly received millions of dollars in an out of court settlement.

In 2019 she launched another defamation suit against the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, whom she had named as one of the men Epstein forced her to sleep with.

He counter-sued and they eventually settled, with Giuffre admitting: ‘I now recognise I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr Dershowitz.’

Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley said the mother-of-three had come forward to set an example for other child sex victims.

‘Blaming a minor child who was being sexually trafficked by a wealthy and incredibly powerful individual is irresponsible,’ McCawley said.

‘And [it] works only to silence other victims and reward the abuser.’