Virginia Giuffre’s memoir reveals how Epstein, Maxwell ‘broke down’ girls step by step in psychological war

When Virginia Roberts Giuffre first stepped into Jeffrey Epstein’s pastel-pink Palm Beach mansion at 16, she believed she was getting a chance to train as a massage therapist. What followed, she writes in "Nobody's Girl," was not a fairy-tale education but an education in psychological manipulation and "a school where disobedience was punished, and obedience was praised."

In "Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," Giuffre — who died by suicide earlier this year — recalled the events that led to her being sex trafficked as a minor by the convicted sex offender and his accomplice and wrote of the fear she endured for years.

Across nearly 400 pages, Giuffre recounted how what began as a promise of opportunity turned into captivity. She wrote that later