Virginia Giuffre has said she was 16 years old when she was first recruited into Jeffrey Epstein’s network in 2000 while working at Mar-a-Lago.

Quick Scoop: Core Fact

  • Multiple biographical and news sources report that Virginia Giuffre (then Virginia Roberts) was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein in 2000, when she was 16 and working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
  • She has described this recruitment as the beginning of her abuse and involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Context Around That Age

  • Reference profiles note that she was born in August 1983 and place the start of her involvement with Epstein between 2000 and 2002, aligning with her being 16 at the time she met him via Maxwell.
  • Accounts from interviews and later coverage of her memoir consistently frame her as a teenager (specifically 16) when Epstein and Maxwell brought her into his circle.

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