'Do you like kids?' Epstein victim recounts Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting in new bombshell book
15 October
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Vanity Fair magazine has published an exclusive excerpt of the forthcoming memoir of the late Virginia Giuffre, a victim of late Jeffrey Epstein, whom she met while working at President Donald Trump's Palm Beach country club.
Giuffre, Vanity Fair writes, completed work on the manuscript for “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” in October 2024.
Just weeks before her death by suicide in April 2025, Giuffre wrote to her collaborator on the book, Amy Wallace, “the content of this book is crucial… It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness. In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that “Nobody’s Girl” is still released.”
The excerpt Vanity Fair has published takes place in 2000, when a 16-year-old Giuffre worked in the spa at Trump's Mar a Lago.
Giuffre's father, she wrote, "was responsible for maintaining the resort’s in-room air-conditioning units, not to mention its five-championship red-clay tennis courts, so he knew his way around, both indoors and out."
Giuffre got her job at the spa after passing a drug and polygraph test, she wrote. She also detailed Trump's employee handbook.
"Which went on to specify everything from basic hygiene (“Body odors are offensive.”) to how many earrings I could wear in my ears (one per lobe, each no larger than a dime); from telephone etiquette (“All calls are to be answered within three rings.”) to general behavior (“Horse-play and practical jokes are prohibited.”)."
It was her father who first introduced her to Trump, she said. "They weren't friends, exactly. But Dad worked hard, and Trump liked that— I’d seen photos of them posing together, shaking hands."
"'This is my daughter,' Dad said, and his voice sounded proud," she wrote. "Trump couldn’t have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic that I was there."
“'Do you like kids?' he asked. 'Do you babysit at all?'" he asked her.
"He explained that he owned several houses next to the resort that he lent to friends, many of whom had children who needed tending," Giuffre wrote.
"I said yes, I’d babysat before, omitting the fact that the last time I’d done so, I’d been reprimanded; in an attempt to entertain the kids in my care, I’d ignited a huge cache of fireworks I’d found hidden in the house. Clearly I was right to leave that out, because soon I was making extra money a few nights a week, minding the children of the elite," she wrote.
But it was her meeting at Mar a Lago with British socialite and Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, a "mesmerizing woman," she said, that put her life on a different trajectory, Giuffre wrote.
"Maxwell says she knows a wealthy man—a longtime Mar-a-Lago member, she says—who is looking for a massage therapist to travel with him," Giuffre wrote.
"“He loves to help people,” she says, adding that the rich gentleman’s home is right here in Palm Beach, less than two miles from Mar-a-Lago," she recounted.
Recalling her first meeting with Epstein up the block from Trump's house, Giuffre wrote, "I wanted to be a good student. Palm Beach was just sixteen miles from Loxahatchee, but the economic divide made it seem way farther. I needed to learn how rich people did things."