“He was going to kill me—I knew it.”
Virginia Giuffre’s voice broke as she told journalists how former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had raped and battered her with such unrelenting violence that she felt life slipping away—choked, beaten, blood everywhere, convinced each brutal second would be her last. Shattered and sobbing, she turned to Jeffrey Epstein and begged him never to send her back, pouring out her terror that Barak would finish the job if she returned. But Epstein looked straight through her fear. Without a word of comfort, he forced her onto the plane anyway, delivering her directly into the hands of the man she was certain would murder her. In raw, tear-soaked interviews, Giuffre laid bare the betrayal that still haunts her: her cries were ignored by the one person who could have stopped it.
What else did she reveal about that second trip?
Virginia Giuffre revealed that the second trip—forced by Jeffrey Epstein despite her desperate pleas—was conducted entirely in a cabin aboard the Lolita Express, where terror dominated every moment. In her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (published October 2025), she described the encounter with the man she referred to as the “Prime Minister” (widely identified in media reports as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has repeatedly denied the allegations) as steeped in constant fear of further violence. She wrote that she spent the time in a state of paralyzing dread, convinced he might resume the brutality from the first assault—choking, beating, and savage rape that left her bloodied and believing death was near.
Unlike the initial encounter on Little St. James island, this second interaction unfolded in the confined, inescapable space of the private jet’s cabin. Giuffre recounted feeling trapped, with no escape possible mid-flight, amplifying her sense of helplessness. She emerged from the ordeal physically intact but psychologically shattered, describing it as a turning point: “I didn’t know it then, but my second interaction with the Prime Minister was the beginning of the end for me.” This experience broke Epstein’s hold—she stopped recruiting other young girls for him, a task he had previously forced upon her. The betrayal by Epstein, who ignored her sobs and warnings that the man would “finish the job” and kill her, crystallized her realization that she was disposable in his network of powerful elites.
Giuffre confided in journalists that the second trip intensified her belief she might not survive Epstein’s world long-term. She feared becoming a permanent “sex slave,” trafficked repeatedly to men who could eliminate threats. In raw interviews and the memoir, she emphasized the psychological toll: constant vigilance, nightmares of violence resuming, and the chilling knowledge that her cries meant nothing to Epstein. This second delivery into danger fueled her eventual resolve to speak out, though she withheld the full name in the book due to lingering fears of retaliation.
The revelation underscored the systemic control Epstein wielded—using private jets to transport victims across borders, isolating them from help. Giuffre’s account of the trip highlighted how such logistics enabled ongoing abuse without immediate consequence. It also marked a shift in her trajectory: post-encounter, she began distancing herself from recruitment duties, signaling the erosion of compliance that later led to her public accusations starting in 2011.
Despite threats and intimidation, Giuffre’s disclosures about the second trip contributed to broader scrutiny of Epstein’s enablers. She founded advocacy groups like SOAR to support survivors and pushed for accountability, inspiring others to come forward and aiding investigations into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Her suicide on April 25, 2025, at age 41 ended her life but not her impact—the memoir ensures her voice endures, exposing the terror of being forced back into danger and the betrayal that ignored her pleas for life. By detailing the second trip, Giuffre illuminated not just personal horror but the mechanics of impunity that protected predators for years.
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