The answer lies in Giuffre’s own sworn testimony from 2016, given during her defamation lawsuit against Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Under oath, she confirmed she had met Trump “a few times” while working as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000, when she was 16. Her father, a maintenance man at the club, also knew Trump socially.
Giuffre stressed she never saw Trump in Epstein’s company, never saw him behave inappropriately, and never alleged any sexual contact. She even noted: “Donald Trump never flirted with me… he didn’t partake in any sex with us.”
Still, Trump’s new remarks have struck a nerve. Speaking aboard Air Force One on Tuesday, he said Epstein had “taken people out of the spa, hired by him… gone,” and when pressed by a reporter, acknowledged he believed Giuffre was among them.
“I think she worked at the spa… I think that was one of the people he stole,” Trump said, adding: “She had no complaints about us, none whatsoever.”
The Giuffre family, typically private, erupted in anger. In a rare public statement, they said:
“It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say he knew Virginia had been ‘stolen’ from Mar-a-Lago. Survivors are not objects. Women are not objects. We and the public demand answers.”
Her brother Sky Roberts went further in a CNN interview: “She wasn’t stolen — she was preyed upon at President Trump’s property. ‘Stolen’ makes it sound impersonal. This was personal.”
Giuffre had testified that she was approached by Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, offered work as a masseuse for Epstein, and was soon coerced into his world of sexual exploitation. She alleged she was flown around the globe to service Epstein’s friends, including Prince Andrew — who later settled a civil suit with her in 2022 without admitting wrongdoing.
Trump has long maintained he severed ties with Epstein around 2004 and has denied any knowledge of his crimes. He has also claimed he barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after inappropriate behavior toward female staff.
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in his abuse network.
Now, with Trump’s re-entry into the conversation — and his direct reference to Giuffre — the scandal is once again at the center of public and political attention, threatening to reopen one of the most explosive and mysterious chapters in American high-society crime.