The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

Virginia Giuffre’s Family Continues the Fight

Aug 4, 2025

At age 16, Virginia Guiffre was working a summer job at Mar-a-Lago where her father was a maintenance man. Virginia explained in a BBC interview how convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell first chatted with her at Mar-a-Lago as she was reading a book on massage therapy. Ghislaine offered her a better paid job and training with another employer, Jeffrey Epstein.

Virginia took the job and ended up as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s young sex trafficking victims. After 5 years of being “passed around like a piece of fruit” to billionaire men, Virginia escaped. She married, moved to Australia, and raised a family.

Virginia only spoke out as a survivor when her third child, a daughter, was born. Virginia decided to fight like hell to tell the truth about international child sex trafficking by and for billionaires.

Tragically, Virginia died by suicide in April 2025. Her family has carried on her fight. They insist their sister wanted all of her own court records made public. She was proud of her work to bring this sex trafficking ring down. The family has been on the news demanding no pardon of anyone convicted and that all the Epstein files be made public.

The family has a dream that a collective voice of outrage will become so powerful that the full documents are released. Were that to happen, as impossible as it might seem today, the names of all the politicians, the royals, the CEOs, the billionaires, would represent just the tip of the iceberg.

The names coming to light would begin to expose the hypocrisy and depravity that is right now being protected. And that which is protected is condoned. Because in the top circles of capitalist society, it IS acceptable, it IS “normal” to treat women and children—and workers—as property to be used, abused, and thrown away. Yet what must truly be thrown away is capitalist society itself!