'Do you like kids?' Epstein accuser describes first meeting Trump in posthumous memoir

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was 16 years old when she first got a job at Mar-a-Lago, and within days she was introduced to its owner, Donald Trump.

The teenager caught a ride to her first day on the job with her father, who was responsible for the resort’s in-room air-conditioning units and its red-clay tennis courts, and she describes in a posthumously published memoir her first meeting with the future president and the direction he pointed her young life in excerpts published by Vanity Fair.

"It couldn’t have been more than a few days before my dad said he wanted to introduce me to Donald Trump himself," Giuffre wrote. "They weren’t friends, exactly. But Dad worked hard, and Trump liked that— I’d seen photos of them posing together, shaking hands. So one day my father took me to Trump’s office. 'This is my daughter,' Dad said, and his voice sounded proud."

"Trump couldn’t have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic that I was there," she added. 'Do you like kids?' he asked. 'Do you babysit at all?'"

Giuffre completed work on the manuscript for “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” in October 2024, six months before taking her own life, and she chronicled the sexual and physical abuse that tainted her life from early childhood through her experience with the sex predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met through her work at Mar-a-Lago.

"[Trump] explained that he owned several houses next to the resort that he lent to friends, many of whom had children who needed tending," Giuffre wrote. "I said yes, I’d babysat before, omitting the fact that the last time I’d done so, I’d been reprimanded; in an attempt to entertain the kids in my care, I’d ignited a huge cache of fireworks I’d found hidden in the house. Clearly I was right to leave that out, because soon I was making extra money a few nights a week, minding the children of the elite."