Victim said Ghislaine Maxwell 'more physically abusive' than Epstein in BBC bombshell

In a bombshell BBC report that aired unseen parts of a 2019 interview with late Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, disturbing details reveal that much of her abuse was at the hands of Epstein co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, RadarOnline reports.

One of the most well-known and vocal accusers, Giuffre was a key source of information for law enforcement and initiated several lawsuits against Epstein and his associates, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. She died by suicide in April 2025.

Airing on BBC Panorama, a long-running British current affairs investigative documentary program, Giuffre, who recounted much of it in her posthumous book, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, recalled the time Epstein and Maxwell instructed her to seduce disgraced Prince Andrew after a trip to a nightclub in 2001.

"Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey, and that made me sick," Giuffre said. "I just didn't expect it from royalty. I didn't expect from someone who people look up to and admire in the royal family."

In the BBC interview, Giuffre said she felt like a "toy" since she was there "to be passed around."

"But I was still a human being with feelings and emotion and sadness. And to know that this man had daughters, that he was still capable of abusing me. It just doesn't make sense," she said.

Giuffre also said Maxwell, currently serving 20 years in a country club prison in Texas and said to be seeking commutation from President Donald Trump, was "more physically abusive" than Epstein.

"She almost took pleasure in the fact, knowing that you were highly uncomfortable and that you were feeling sick to your stomach and that you were going through pain," she told the BBC.

Following a press conference Tuesday with Epstein survivors demanding the release of the files, the day ended with a vigil honoring all victims, including Giuffre, where the survivors received news that the Senate had also passed the bill to force their release, an outcome they described as a long-awaited win.