After his then-teenage daughter accepted a job as a masseuse for a billionaire, Virginia Giuffre's father reportedly dropped her off at Jeffrey Epstein's house and asked her to “check up on Epstein.'' He even remembers shaking the hand of a pedophile when he was about to do something.
Skye Roberts visited Epstein's Florida mansion in 2000 during his lunch break while working as a janitor at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach. Mr. Giuffre also worked there.
A few days earlier, a club patron approached 16-year-old Giuffre, who was reading a book about massage therapy by the pool, and asked her if she wanted to work with her boss, Roberts. told the Daily Mail.
Giuffre was overjoyed at the opportunity and her father was excited for her. But first he wanted to meet this mysterious boss.
Roberts remembers driving his pickup truck into Epstein's home “just down the street” and meeting with investor and co-defendant Ghislaine Maxwell, who said, “Bell… It didn't ring,” he said.
“He seemed like a normal guy and she seemed okay. I had no idea this guy was a pedophile and that this woman was manipulating my daughter and another girl. '' said the father. “I thought I was fulfilling my duty as her parent by checking on Epstein.”
Robert said Epstein came down the driveway and shook his hand.
“I met with him and said something to the effect that I wanted to understand exactly what my daughter was going to do,” Roberts said.
“Epstein said, 'Oh, I'm doing this to help a lot of girls. I'm going to have some people teach massage therapy to Virginia…that's a good career,'” he continued. .
Roberts said Maxwell was silent.
He said his daughter was “enthusiastic” to work for Epstein because “she thought it would make more money and it would be a good opportunity to travel.”
“Of course, I had no idea what was really going on. I wish I knew the extent of it now, but I had no clue,” he told the paper.
Giuffre then spent the next two years under the care of Epstein and Maxwell, traveling the world to their luxurious mansions where she was offered sex by elite clients. Her photo shows Prince Andrew with his arm around her waist when she was 17, and she claims he forced her to have sex.
“I don't think he still feels regret or guilt for what he did. I think he's angry because he got caught,” Roberts told the Daily Mail.
Giuffre was also allegedly tasked with helping the sick pair recruit other girls to the billionaire's pedophile ring.
“She didn't come home from her trip and said, 'I'm being sexually abused.' That's not something you would tell a father,” Roberts said.
Giuffre, now 40, lives in Australia. Her father, who remains in Florida, told the Daily Mail that although he doesn't see her often, he is proud of her.
Epstein, 66, committed suicide in a lower Manhattan prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell was later convicted of recruiting and grooming young women for sexual purposes and is currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison.
“I think it's despicable because she knew what was going on. I don't understand how she could look at herself in the mirror because she ruined these kids' lives.” I don’t understand it,” Roberts told the magazine.
Roberts' revelations come just weeks after a trove of documents relating to Epstein and Maxwell's crimes were revealed as part of his daughter's long-settled 2015 defamation lawsuit against Maxwell. .
The 215 documents, totaling nearly 5,000 pages, detailed the scope of Epstein's sex trafficking ring, his network of powerful associates, and his methods of seducing female victims.
