Virginia Giuffre: Victim of the underage sex trafficking ring operated by Jeffrey Epstein

She is one of the known victims of a sex trafficking operation by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2015, she founded the nonprofit organization Victims Refuse Silence.

Virginia Giuffre was born Virginia Louise Roberts in on August 9, 1983 in Sacramento, California. When she was four years old, her family relocated to Loxahatchee in Palm Beach County, Florida.

She reportedly came from a "troubled home". Giuffre told the Miami Herald that she went from being in "an abusive situation, to being a runaway, to living in foster homes." She lived on the streets at age 13 before getting abused by a 65-year-old sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger, in Miami.

Giuffre lived with Eppinger for approximately 6 months. He was raided by the FBI and later said guilty to charges of alien smuggling for prostitution, interstate travel for prostitution, and money laundering.

• In May 2009 the courts got a civil lawsuit from Giuffre - against Jeffrey Epstein; The case was settled for $500,000 (equivalent to $632,000 in 2021); This sum became known to the general public in January 2022.

• In September 2015, the courts got a civil lawsuit from Giuffre - against Ghislaine Maxwell; The case was settled under seal in June 2017 with Maxwell reportedly paying Giuffre "millions".

• In 2021, the lower courts of the federal court system of the United States got a lawsuit - Virginia Giuffre v. Prince Andrew. The civil lawsuit (see civil law), says that Andrew had sex in 2001 with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 years old; Prince Andrew "has strongly denied any wrongdoing", media said. The lawsuit is going on (as of 2022's first quarter).