In her newly posthumous memoir, Virginia Giuffre recounts enduring a violent assault by a “well-known prime minister” in 2002, describing how she was beaten and left bloodied while trafficked under the control of Jeffrey Epstein.
Giuffre, who was 18 at the time of the attack, says the incident was a turning point in her ordeal—after which she resolved to escape the trafficking network that had claimed her for years. Although she stops short of naming the leader, court documents have previously linked her allegations to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has denied involvement.
She also describes being forced into a second encounter aboard Epstein’s private jet, where she claims the same political figure again targeted her—in each case refusing her pleas for help and displaying a chilling lack of remorse. Giuffre’s memoir arrives nearly six months after her death by suicide, and the revelations are expected to revive scrutiny of Epstein’s network and the political power structures that allegedly enabled it.