Most shocking revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir

The book’s most shocking revelations concern the physical toll of that abuse — including an episode of severe internal bleeding and a hospital visit Epstein allegedly arranged to conceal her age.

Giuffre writes that she first started bleeding heavily after returning to New York in the summer of 2001. “I wasn’t in great shape,” she says. “Then one night I woke up in a pool of blood.”

Epstein, she claims, took her to a private hospital, where he “lied to make me look older” and whispered to a doctor about her care. “I had a small incision near my belly button, consistent with keyhole surgery for an ectopic pregnancy,” she writes.

“But Epstein told me I had had a miscarriage, and that’s something completely different.” She remembers a doctor telling her she might never be able to have children.

She says the episode left her physically scarred and emotionally shattered. “The only thing I remember clearly,” Giuffre adds, also saying she felt “hollowed out, like a part of me had been taken away and I would never get it back.”

Giuffre also claims that Epstein and the men he trafficked her to – whom she describes as “powerful and greedy” – never used protection.

‘Epstein never wore a condom. Neither did the men he and Ghislaine traded me to,” she wrote. “I was treated like a disposable object, and no one ever thought about what that would do to my body.”

The memoir also details Epstein’s intimidation tactics. Giuffre claims that after an attack, Epstein showed her a photo of her younger brother and said, “We know where your brother goes to school.”

He also warned her never to reveal “what happens at his house.” The threats, she says, held her captive until she fled his power in 2002.

Although she has built a life in Australia with her husband Robert and their three children, Giuffre writes that the trauma has never left her. During a hospital stay in 2021, she said she was overwhelmed by flashbacks of the men who abused her.

“All the feelings of sadness and shame overcame me,” she remembers. “I was tired of the nightmares; greedy men pushing me, men whose faces I recognized and would never forget.”