“Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright.” That’s what Virginia Giuffre writes in her posthumous memoir, recalling how she was trafficked from Mar-a-Lago, through the corridors of power, to rooms filled with men who treated her as property.
She first met Ghislaine Maxwell in the spa lobby of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, a chilling introduction that would lead her into the darkest corners of the Epstein network. Completed in October 2024, six months before her untimely death by suicide, the newly published memoir unspools a story of grooming, coercion, and complicity.
Giuffre paints a chilling picture: stepping into Maxwell’s car, sitting across from Epstein in a mansion full of nude portraits, being asked invasive questions about birth control and virginity, forced into sexual acts under duress. The mechanisms she describes are brutal but eerily banal, the slow stripping of power, the illusion of choice, the constant need to survive.
Because what Giuffre reveals is how elite networks, property tycoons, princes, financiers, use institutions to disguise exploitation. Her name tag read JENNA at Mar-a-Lago, erasing her identity. Maxwell extended her manicured hand as though they were equals. She said, “Come meet a wealthy friend,” and led Giuffre through the lies.
In the years since, so many have admitted shock, “I had no idea.” But Giuffre says everyone had to know. The walls, the photos, the flow of young girls, too many people passed through those spaces for denial to be plausible.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson is now under fire, and not just politically, legally—for stalling the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected Democrat from Arizona who could be the 218th vote needed to force a release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has formally warned Johnson that she will sue if Grijalva isn’t seated immediately. Mayes excoriated Johnson’s “ever-shifting, unsatisfactory, and sometimes absurd” excuses, accusing him of holding Arizona hostage to avoid releasing damaging documents.
Grijalva won the seat formerly held by her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, and has pledged to be the tipping vote on a discharge petition demanding the Epstein records. Republicans have long resisted making those files public.
In a CNN interview, Mayes didn’t mince words: “There’s no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now … except that perhaps she’s the final vote to discharge the Epstein files.”
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