Donald Trump asked Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre if she could babysit during their first encounter at his Mar-a-Lago club, according to her posthumous memoir.
In a copy obtained by The Independent, Giuffre wrote that she was introduced to Trump by her father after she was hired as a locker room attendant in the summer of 2000. She said that within days of starting, her father, then a maintenance man at Mar-a-Lago, introduced her to Trump in his office.
âTrump couldnât have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic that I was there,â she wrote. ââDo you like kids?â he asked. âDo you babysit at all?ââ
Trump told Giuffre he owned several houses in the area that he had lent to friends, many of whom had children who needed looking after, the book says.
She told him that she had babysat before, and was soon making extra money a few nights a week, âminding the children of the elite.â
Giuffre wrote in the memoir, Nobodyâs Girl, that Trump and her father âwerenât friends exactlyâ, but that âDad worked hard, and Trump liked that.â
The $9-an-hour job as locker room attendant, âusually in the locker room, handing out towelsâ, was an opportunity to get back on her feet after dropping out of high school, she explained.
âIt was my day job that gave me my first real vision of a better future,â she said, adding that âwhenever possibleâ she would âquestion the massage therapistsâ about what they did and how they had learned to do it.
Weeks before her seventeenth birthday that August, Giuffre said she was walking toward the spa when Ghislaine Maxwell first saw her. Giuffre reflected that she thought she would be âluckyâ if she could grow up to be anything like the âpolishedâ British socialite.
She claimed that Maxwell approached her, introduced herself and said she knew âa wealthy manâ and âlongtime Mar-a-Lago memberâ who was looking for a massage therapist to travel with him.
âHe loves to help people,â Ms Giuffre recalled Maxwell telling her.
Giuffre said she had not trained as a massage therapist but hoped to, and was invited for an interview anyway.
The memoir continues to describe years of alleged abuse by Epstein, his circle of elites and Maxwell, who she said âplayed den mother to Epsteinâs dysfunctional family of underage girlsâ.
As the memoir notes, Trump reportedly banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club for âhitting onâ the daughter of another member, according to the 2020 book âThe Grifters Clubâ.
Trump said earlier this year that he fell out with Epstein after he âstoleâ young women who worked at his Mar-a-Lago club spa.
âHe took people, I say ‘don’t do it anymore’, you know they work for me… beyond that, he took some others,â Trump said in July, returning from a visit to Scotland. “Once he did that, that was the end of him.” He added that he kicked Epstein out of his club for âbeing a creepâ.
Trump said that one of the young women was Giuffre, who he said began working at the club in the summer of 2000, when she was 16. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025, aged 41.
Trump has faced ongoing political pressure in the US to release the Justice Departmentâs files on Epstein, not least from his own supporters, some of whom have accused the administration of engaging in a coverup to protect influential people.
The president himself has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein but has faced repeated calls to explain his past friendship with his fellow New Yorker, whom he knew socially in the 1990s and early 2000s when they were neighbours in Palm Beach.
Trump has insisted the two men fell out long before Epstein was accused of sex trafficking.
Nobodyâs Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice is released on Tuesday.
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