Of All The Things That Never Happened

This Never Happened the Most: The Sad Strange Death of Virginia Guiffre

Jeffrey Epstein, the allegedly deceased mysterious sex trafficker billionaire, maintained at least three large homes: a sprawling ranch in New Mexico, a large townhouse in Manhattan, and a retreat on Little St. James Island in the Caribbean. Every one of these establishments was tricked out with video cameras. I don’t mean a door cam or a couple of odd cameras. Every single room of these large houses was wired and the cameras ran nonstop. There are boatloads of video of the various activities in these homes, most of which has been described as being unwholesome.

It is alleged bad stuff happened in thse Epstein homes and all of these indecent acts and crimes are caught on video.

Have you seen any of it? Of course not. Not a frame of it has been released, ever.

And what about the Epstein flight logs? Epstein was rich enough to own his own jet which make regular pilgrimages to what has come to be known as Epstein Island. There are snippets here and there of the flight logs, but they’re cryptic, often just listing initials of people. We’ve seen some of those logs. And we’ve seen part of his address book which is just a list of various private phone numbers of famous people. But if you want to see the Epstein videos or his bank records or the financial means he used to support himself as a billionaire while never actually being employed anywhere … you have a long wait.

Pam Bondi, the Attorney General and aspiring Fox News commentator, promised we’d get the Epstein documents on Day 1. Well, we’re past Day 100 and they’re not released. I suspect—but don’t know for sure—that they’ve been destroyed.

Same with Jeffrey Epstein himself. He got destroyed. He allegedly died in a New York prison under improbable circumstances. Some say he was murdered. Others say his alleged suicide was just a ploy to extract him from the authorities and safeguard him somewhere. Meanwhile, his cohort in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, is in prison herself, serving what might as well be a life sentence. Both Epstein and Maxwell were arrested for sex trafficking but not one of the people at their multiple homes who assaulted minors has even been charged.

All that’s left of this seamy drama that has evidentiary value is Virginia Guiffre, and word just came that she completed suicide herself.

Virginia Before Epstein

Virginia Roberts was born in California to a dysfunctional family who moved to Florida when she was just 4. Although few details are provided, most of the people who report on her agree that she was molested repeatedly by an unnamed family member at the age of 7. The sad truth of human trafficking is that the easiest victims to control are brutalized kids who have little to no family support and a history of being abused. Virginia started to act out, as abuse victims often do when denied healing, and she became a street kid. Her parents split up. She was in and out of foster homes and sometimes she was lived on the street. By the age of 14, she had paired up with a guy from Miami named Ron Eppinger. The kindest thing that can be said about Eppinger is that he was a professional pornographer who specialized in underaged kids. He ran a front for his business—a modeling agency called “Perfect 10.” He was arrested, setnenced to 21 months (!) back in 2001 and I am unable to find out what became of him.

After about six months living with Eppinger the pornographer, Virginia moved back in with her father who found work on Florida’s Atlantic coast as a maintenance man at Mar-A-Lago. This was around 1997. By 2000, Virginia was working at Mar-A-Lago herself as a spa attendant. It was here that she crossed paths with Ghislaine Maxwell, then a wealthy but little-known socialite who was outgoing, attractive, and trinational (she holds British, American, and French passports). The daughter of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine was an international woman of mystery. Some said she had intelligence connections—she was a spy—but with so many passports, it’s hard to know who she was working for. It was alleged her father worked for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency and it was further alleged that in 2019, Mossad had him killed. But that’s another story for another day. (Epstein was Jewish; Maxwell’s father was born Jewish but converted to Christianity and her mother was a French Protestant and a prominent scholar of the Holocaust. Ghislaine did not identify as Jewish.)

Virginia in the Epstein Orbit

Once Ghislaine had lured Virginia into the seamy, steamy, seedy world of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia rose through the ranks to some prominence. Epstein had hundreds of victims, yet we know only her name. Early on, Ghislaine found she could trust Virginia to recruit other neighborhood girls to give Jeffrey and his guests “massages.” Virginia moved into the Epstein properties and by 2001, she alleges she was sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew. She also claimed Alan Dershowitz assaulted her, but Dershowitz pushed back on the claim and she ended up dropping the allegations. Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer at the time. (Dershowitz claims he never even met Virginia, and she later did not dispute this.)

Jeffrey had lost interest in Virginia when she turned 19, but he still valued her services as a procurer. In 2002, Ghislaine Maxwell on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein sent Virginia all by herself to go to Thailand to meet and bring back a specific Thai girl for Jeffrey. While Virginia was in Thailand, she met Robert Guiffre, an Australian martial arts guy, who also turned out to be a pretty hardcore domestic abuser. They were married two weeks later and Virginia told Maxwell and Epstein she had no plans to return. The Guiffres settled in Australia.

In 2007, Epstein and Maxwell contacted Virginia to make sure she wasn’t talking to the FBI, who had launched an investigation into Epstein. She told them truthfully she was keeping silent. She wasn’t lying—but times changed.

By around 2010, at the time her first daughter was born, Virginia had an epiphany. She launched a series of lawsuits and made allegations about what went on in the Epstein world. She even set up some nonprofit organizations to help with girls who end up being trafficked. Her most famous settlement, started in 2014 and concluded in 2021, with Prince Andrew of the British monarchy. She had alleged sexual abuse by Prince Andrew in 2001 when she was just 17. While the palace has denied that anything improper took place, Guiffre took Andrew to court in New York in 2021 and the palace settled for 12M pounds (approximately $16M) without admitting any wrongdoing.

What Doesn’t Add Up

Virginia had a messy life. Her husband was a wife beater, and even though they used their newfound wealth from Prince Andrew to buy a big luxury farmhouse in Perth, Australia, they were not getting along. In 2019, Virginia had posted on social media that she was not suicidal. It is unclear what prompted this. The Guiffres were contemplating divorce and a bitter battle over their three kids was taking shape around the time Virginia died.

Of course, Virginia was no prize herself—she had had restraining orders slapped on her by her husband (and vice versa). Virginia had a court appearance scheduled for June 11, 2025, but it’s not clear what it was about. However awful and turbulent this sounds, it was not that unusual for Virginia. She lived in a world that was very cruel to her—and sometimes she was cruel right back.

Now on March 30, 2025, Virginia posted a photograph of herself on social media and she made a series of bizarre statements. She said she was in intensive care and that doctors had given her four days to live. She said she had renal kidney failure. She also said she had been in an accident with a shool bus going 110 km/hour (68 mph). She said she was being transferred to a hospital that specialized in urology.

Here are some of the problems with this story.

• This picture cannot possibly come from a hospital intensive care unit because hospitals routinely remove all jewelry. Notice Virginia is wearing a necklace and earrings. And where is the hospital gown?

• There is a stick-on patch electrode on her breast. Hospitals do use these, but they usually use several and they are all attached to wires. This is not only weird (to have one patch only), it isn’t hooked up. It’s like showing an extension cord not plugged into a socket

• Virginia claims she was in an accident in or near Perth, Australia, that put her in the hospital. However, the injuries she sustained appear to be mainly bruises on her face which is more consistent with being used as a punching bag than being in a vehicular accident. If you go through Virginia’s history she had, at other times, been given a black eye by her husband

• There is no record of any serious bus accident in or near Perth on the day she claims this happened. There was a minor bus accident that day, but the whole accident did very little damage and no one was sent to the hospital, much less sent to the hospital on the brink of death

• The bus driver involved in that accident is a guy named Sean Munns and he said what some other passengers confirmed—the bus accident that day was just a “minor bump” and would not have caused anyone serious injuries

• Virginia did indeed go to the hospital—the Joondalup Hospital just north of Perth. However, she admitted herself. No ambulance, no paramedics. She went herself the next day. She told the hospital that the bus accident happened the day before, and she was discharged after an overnight stay

• The week after this, Virginia went to the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, also in Perth, looking for pain medication. This hospital kept her for a week

• She said on social media she was in “kidney renal failure.” No medical person would use this term, although this is perhaps splitting hairs. Kidney refers to the organ in the body; renal is another word for having to do with the kidneys. It’s like saying you have a “cardiac heart problem” or a “dermatological skin problem.” It’s not a real term

• She also said she was given “four days to live.” Doctors do not say things like that. Predicting lifespan, even for people who are seriously ill, is so difficult as to be impossible. Hospice nurses cannot even say for sure when a terminally ill person at the end of life will actually expire. No doctor would tell a person who had the ability to post on social media that they had exactly, specifically, four days to live

• Virginia said she was in kidney failure and that condition was terminal. While some people do indeed die of kidney failure, many do not. It can be survivable. Kidney failure means she was on dialysis at the time, but kidneys can recover, particularly with expert care like the kind you’d get in a hospital

• Finally—and this is the big tell—she said she was being transferred to a specialty hospital for more care (why would they want her to have better care when they told her she was going to die in four days anyway?). But the specialty care she was going to get was from a “urology hospital.” The kind of specialist who treats kidney failure is a nephrologist. It’s true urologists might treat the kidneys but it is mainly in service of urinary problems. Kidney failure is a different disorder and it’s covered by nephrology

The next news heard is that Virginia Guiffre has completed suicide. If that is true, it just about wraps up the Jeffrey Epstein saga. No tapes, no Jeffrey, no flight logs, Ghislaine behind bars, no Virginia Guiffre.

Virginia was just 41 years old.

What Happened?

It is easy to understand that an abused child, grown up to be a trafficked young woman, would be a vulnerable damaged soul leading a troubled life. Virginia was both broken and outspoken, damaged and ferocious, valiant and corrupted, kind but angry. She tried to re-invent herself as an advocate against sex trafficking. She tried to make a normal life with a husband and children. She tried to recover.

However, Virginia was an imperfect witness and a flawed advocate. Her job was to bring new underage girls to Epstein. As is so often the case, the trafficked girls go on to become the traffickers.

Virginia also accused Alan Dershowitz of sexually assaulting her, only to drop her allegations when Dershowitz pushed back. Dershowitz, who always reminds me a bit of Woody Allen, is an older man who is about the smartest lawyer who ever lived. He wrote a book about Virginia, calling it Guilt by Association: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo. Virginia never sued him for anything in that book. In fact, in 2019, FBI files about the Epstein case came out that supported Dershowitz version of the story, namely that the two had never even met although both knew Epstein.

Virginia fought Prince Andrew in court until he offered millions to let him off the hook without pressing charges; she took the money and let him skate. Prince Andrew is not particularly bright and bumbled his way through a disastrous interview that made him look more guilty than innocent. Not being Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew never countersued Virginia for defamation. And it is quite believable, at least to me, that Prince Andrew was guilty.

As far as I know, Virginia Guiffre did not sue anyone else. She did report in 2024 that former President Bill Clinton was on Epstein Island twice while she was there, but he had no sexual contact with him.

R.I.P. Virginia Roberts Guiffre

Virginia died at her home in Australia, even though she had stated on social media she was in intensive care facing imminent death. Despite this crackpot claim, she was discharged from not one but two different hospitals. She was at home under no specific types of care (not even dialysis for her alleged kidney failure). The means of suicide have not been disclosed and it seems that she died alone.

It is possible that Virginia did not actually complete suicide. Her story does not make sense. It is possible she met her end at the hands of wicked people, who may have found her further testimonies inconvenient. It is also possible that she has been removed and relocated for some future purposes, such as testimony or litigation. It is also possible that after 40 years of living a nightmare, she finally succumbed to the overwhelming weight of the disasters of her life. I find that last supposition the most implausible.

Here are some notable facts about this very complicated person:

• She is one of the very first people to call for criminal prosectuion of Jeffrey Epstein

• She remains, even in death, “the face” of the Epstein human trafficking victims; no other victims have achieved her level of notoreity. She was never afraid to go public with her allegations

• She was hounded and harrassed her whole life by the wicked and the powerful. Commenting on Virginia’s death, Lady Victoria Hervey, a nasty friend of Prince Andrew, stated on social media, “when lies catch up with you, there’s no way out”

• She was more or less a street kid by age 12 and did drugs and turned tricks; by 14 she was living with a pornography kingpin, yet she transitioned into the socially upscale world of Epstein and Maxwell almost effortlessly

• As a former abuse victim and street kid, she was not overly impressed with presidents and princes

• She claimed that in 2007, while she was pregnant with the second of her three children, she got calls from Maxwell and Epstein who knew where she was living. The FBI was looking into Epstein and Epstein wanted to make sure she wasn’t talking to the cops. Virginia promised she had said nothing to anyone and Epstein threatened her saying, in her words, that “he owned the entire Palm Beach Police Department” and her family in Florida could be harmed if she talked to any cops

• Yet by 2009, she filed a lawsuit against Epstein for trafficking her as a minor, albeit anonymously

• Although the 2009 lawsuit reached a settlement, in 2011, Virginia was the first Epstein victim to waive anonymity

• The whole time she was fighting the Epstein empire, she was being physically assaulted by her own husband. She admitted, “I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein who abused and trafficked me. But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently”

What argues against suicide—besides the totally bizarre nature of the story of a bus accident and having four days to live—is that Virginia had plans to renovate her farmhouse. Depressed people rarely make plans of any kind, much less to renovate a home. Who contemplates both home renovation and suicide at the same time? Plus Virginia was in a custody battle for her three kids. Why fight for your kids if you are thinking of ending your own life anyway? Virginia had faced a lot of problems in her short life and she never buckled. Why now? Why was this suddenly too much for her?

It is not clear what happened to Virginia.

• If she was meant to disappear so that people would forget about the Epstein files, my prediction is this. She’ll be forgotten. She’ll disappear off mainstream media. Stories about her will dry up. And sooner rather than later, the next big story will overwhelm us and she’ll disappear. (This is how they “handled” the inconvenient story of Tafari Campbell, Obama’s unfortunate chef who drowned under mysterious circumstances and improbable conditions.)

• Or maybe it’s the way Whitney Webb has portrayed it in her Epstein books, One Nation Under Blackmail. Webb says that Epstein wasn’t the only bad guy. He wasn’t even the main bad guy or the baddest bad guy. He was part of a very large, very complicated, high-level and very intricate network of sex traffickers. The case against Epstein is the case against hundreds, even thousands of people, some of whom are very powerful and most of whom are very rich. And it may go far beyond just orgies and sex trafficking to include business, healthcare, banking, and politics. It may be a case that’s just too big

• I’m pretty sure the one thing we can rule out is that Virginia Guiffre just suddenly—after winning a massive lawsuit with Prince Andrew—decided to take her own life for no apparent reason. No matter what you think of Virginia, she was tough. A survivor. A street kid who punched back and sometimes made mistakes—but who didn’t just give up. The kind of young woman who went toe to toe with possibly the world’s sleaziest and most reprehnsible slimeball, Jeffrey Epstein, doesn’t just wither and die because her husband challenges her for custody of their kids

Part of the problem is our Attorney General, Pam Bondi. She was Attorney General of the state of Florida from 2011 to 2019, which were some of the years during which Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running their sex trafficking operation in Florida. It is possible some of the Epstein files in Bondi’s possession (if they even still exist) mention her. Did Bondi know about them? Why did she never go after them? And if she didn’t know about them, why on earth didn’t she?

I think after letting Epstein run loose in Florida for almost a decade, Bondi is not going to come after him now.