PAEDOPHILE Jeffrey Epstein bragged he could blackmail a network of powerful men with videos showing them abusing young women, Virginia Giuffre has claimed.
The contents of the book are likely to reignite speculation about whether or not the late disgraced financier kept a client list despite US authorities finding in July that there was no blackmail operation.
The shocking bombshell was made in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice.
The 367-page book is due to be published next week by Alfred A Knopf.
Ms Giuffre completed her book six months before she killed herself, aged 41.
In the book, seen by The Telegraph, she describes learning of Epstein’s death in 2019, indicating it was possible he was murdered in his jail cell.
She wrote: “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.
“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?”
Elsewhere, she asks why details and information about the videos seized from Epstein’s home in Manhattan, New York City, were never made public.
She also details her first meeting, when she was 16, with Ghislaine Maxwell and how she was recruited by her as a masseuse for Epstein.
Ms Giuffre recollects Maxwell saying: “‘He loves to help people.’”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence, having been found guilty of procuring underage girls for Epstein.
That meeting was the beginning of a two-year ordeal that she claims included being trafficked to a number of wealthy or influential men, which included a former prime minister, a politician who was on the verge of being elected governor, prominent scientists and Prince Andrew.
Andrew has always denied all the allegations and a civil claim which was brought in the US was settled out of court with no admission of guilt.
Epstein was arrested and charged with running a sex trafficking ring which involved dozens of underage girls at his home in New York and Palm Beach, Florida, in 2019.
Among the items seized by investigators was a safe from his Manhattan town house which contained video and audio tapes, as well as CDs and hard drives.
Epstein died on August 10, 2019 by which time Ms Giuffre had moved in Australia to rebuild her life.
She writes in her book: “The news hit me with an almost physical force.
“I guess I didn’t believe someone who’d exerted so much power over me could ever die.”
She added: “Not because the world had lost a monster – that was a good thing.
“No, like all of Epstein’s victims, I was grieving the death of my ability to hold him accountable for what he had done.”
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF EPSTEIN’S DEATH
The official account of Epstein’s death was that he had taken his own life rather than face justice for his crimes.
But his unexpected death while at New York’s main detention centre and under the nose of prison guards as led to a variety of alternative explanations, many focusing on the notion that a powerful and shadowy cabal of abusers feared they would be exposed in any future court case.
Ms Giuffre writes: “As the details came out, nearly everything about Epstein’s death seemed fishy.”
She concludes: “I can make a case for either suicide or murder.”
She goes on to explain that being in jail stripped of his power over young girls and the ability to mix with the rich and influential.
Ms Giuffre says in her book: “That certainly could have made him want to end it all.”
Questions over Epstein’s death and the possible existence of his “client list” has dogged President Donald Trump and his administration all year.
Mr Trump and his allies stoked up suspicions of a cover-up during his 2024 election campaign.
The Justice Department and the FBI said in July they found no evidence that Epstein kept a client list or blackmailed prominent associates.
This didn’t kill off section though and it merely heightened accusations that the truth was being concealed.
Ms Giuffre also makes the case for full transparency to ensure justice for the victims of abuse.
At the end of the book she asks: “Where are those videotapes the FBI confiscated from Epstein’s houses?
“And why haven’t they led to prosecution of any more abusers?”
The Justice Department and FBI said in their memo the videos contained “illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography” but did not justify investigating any third parties.
