The late Virginia Guiffre wrote in her newly published memoir that Jeffrey Epstein often boasted of blackmailing his friends — and she had wondered if that had to do with his 2019 death in prison, officially classified as a suicide, according to a Friday report at the Telegraph.
“He’d always suggested to me that those videotapes he so meticulously collected in the bedrooms and bathrooms of his various houses gave him power over others,” she wrote. "He explicitly talked about using me and what I’d been forced to do with certain men as a form of blackmail, so these men would owe him favours.
“Could it be that someone who feared exposure by Epstein had found a way to exterminate him?”
Giuffre, Epstein's most prominent sex-trafficking victim and accuser, finished her book — "Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" — about six months before taking her own life on April 25. In it, she didn't fully discount the possibility that he had indeed committed suicide.
"As the details came out, nearly everything about Epstein’s death seemed fishy,” wrote Giuffre, who concludes: “I can make a case for either suicide or murder,'” the Telegraph reported.
"Being in jail, she explained, stripped him of his power over young girls and the chance to rub shoulders with the rich and influential. “That certainly could have made him want to end it all.”
Giuffre's claims in the book "will reignite questions," the report said, about whether Epstein kept a client list — which the Trump administration suddenly denied early this year, sparking MAGA backlash. As demands for full release of the files persist, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has refused for more than three weeks to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who won her special election on Sept. 23. Her signature would be the decisive 218th needed to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files through a discharge petition.
