In the supposed sanctuary of her Florida childhood home, young Virginia Giuffre’s world shattered when her own father, Sky Roberts, allegedly began sexually abusing her from as young as seven—while her mother looked away in knowing indifference, offering no protection. These early betrayals stripped away her innocence and trust, leaving deep scars that made her heartbreakingly vulnerable years later. As a troubled teen working at Mar-a-Lago, she became the perfect target for Ghislaine Maxwell’s grooming and Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful trafficking network, plunging her into years of exploitation among the elite. In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre bravely exposed these roots of her pain—allegations her father has strenuously denied. How did a little girl’s hidden trauma open the door to one of the darkest chapters in modern history?
In the supposed sanctuary of her Palm Beach-area childhood home, Virginia Giuffre’s world collapsed long before the name Jeffrey Epstein ever entered her life. From the age of seven, she alleges, her own father, Sky Roberts, sexually abused her repeatedly while her mother turned a blind eye in what Giuffre described as knowing, devastating indifference. These were not isolated incidents but a prolonged betrayal that stripped a little girl of her innocence, her trust in adults, and her sense of safety in the one place a child is meant to feel protected.
Those invisible wounds followed her like a shadow. By fourteen she had run away, lived on the streets, and survived further sexual violence. By sixteen, broken and desperate for stability, she took a summer job as a spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club—the very place her father had once worked in maintenance. It was there, in the summer of 2000, that Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her reading a book on massage therapy. What began as flattery and promises of a glamorous new life quickly became the gateway to hell.
Epstein and Maxwell were experts at identifying the “perfect victim.” They didn’t choose confident, tightly-boundaried girls from stable homes. They hunted for the wounded—the ones who had already learned that authority figures could not be trusted, that saying no came at a terrible cost, that silence was survival. Virginia, carrying the weight of her father’s alleged abuse and her mother’s alleged complicity, was exactly what they were looking for. She had been groomed for predation long before Maxwell ever laid eyes on her.
In her posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, released in October 2025, Giuffre finally named her father as her first abuser—the “original betrayer,” as she called him. Sky Roberts has furiously denied every allegation, insisting he never touched his daughter and claiming he only learned of Epstein through television. Some of Virginia’s siblings believe her; others do not. The family remains fractured. But the psychological truth remains undeniable: children who suffer sexual abuse at the hands of those meant to protect them often develop precisely the vulnerabilities that sophisticated predators later exploit.
Experts in trauma and grooming have long explained the pattern. Early betrayal by caregivers destroys a child’s internal alarm system. Boundaries dissolve. The concepts of consent, danger, and self-worth become distorted. When someone like Maxwell arrives offering money, attention, and the illusion of being “special,” the trap snaps shut almost effortlessly.
Virginia Giuffre spent years being trafficked to some of the most powerful men in the world. She alleged three sexual encounters with Prince Andrew (vehemently denied by the prince and settled without admission of liability in 2022). She was flown across continents, photographed, passed around, and threatened into silence. All of it was made possible, in part, because her father—according to her—had already taught her that the people closest to her could hurt her the worst and face no consequences.
She escaped at nineteen when she fled to Australia and married Robert Giuffre. For the next two decades she fought back with ferocious courage: lawsuits, interviews, testimony that helped send Ghislaine Maxwell to prison for twenty years. Yet the damage ran too deep. On April 24, 2025, at the age of forty-one, Virginia took her own life on the quiet farm where she had tried to build a safe life for her three children.
Her final act of bravery was ensuring Nobody’s Girl would be published after her death. In its pages she wrote: “Sex trafficking victims are not born. They are carefully, cruelly made—often long before the trafficker ever meets them.”
Virginia Giuffre’s story is a devastating indictment of what happens when a child’s screams are ignored. Her hidden childhood trauma didn’t just wound one little girl—it created the exact conditions for one of the darkest, most elite-enabled criminal enterprises in modern history. Until we confront abuse in the home with the same outrage we direct at predators in mansions and private jets, more little girls will grow up to become somebody’s “perfect victim.”
Her voice is now forever silenced, but her warning echoes louder than ever: protect the child, or you are helping build the victim.
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