The Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre claimed in her diary that the sex offender taped her being “abused by other men” to use for blackmail, seemingly contradicting a memorandum by the FBI and the justice department.
The memo, published on Monday, stated that there was “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions”.
Giuffre, who died by suicide at her home in Perth, Australia, in April, had left behind a diary of her final months, which her family shared with The Times to tell the “full story” of her life.
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“I used to be watched by Epstein’s hidden cameras, which I have seen myself,” she wrote in one undated entry. “The FBI have the archive footage showing me being abused by other men, used as blackmail.”
Virginia Giuffre’s diary entry on the tapes
President Trump’s justice department and the FBI, which had promised “complete transparency” on the Epstein case, concluded on Monday that they found no evidence that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier blackmailed powerful figures, kept a “client list” or was murdered.
Giuffre became Epstein’s most prominent accuser, winning multiple lawsuits against him and his estate for sexual abuse and trafficking.
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Questions have been asked about what was recovered from FBI raids on Epstein’s various homes after his arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.
Giuffre took her own life in April
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Large black binders holding labelled CDs, as well as hard drives, were discovered in several rooms in his eight-storey Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan, including in a so-called massage room.
Federal prosecutors said CDs found in a safe featured sexual photographs of women and under-age girls.
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Investigators were reported to have found multiple hidden cameras in Epstein’s properties, including in his Manhattan townhouse and his private island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.
At least one other victim, the Briton Sarah Ransome, has claimed that Epstein secretly filmed sexual encounters between victims and high-profile figures to use for blackmail.
Trump’s Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo made public on Sunday there is no evidence that the late financier, who died in a Manhattan prison cell awaiting trial, kept a “client list” or was blackmailing powerful figures.
They also dismissed the claim that Epstein was murdered in jail, confirming his death by suicide, and said they would not be releasing any more information.
Trump, and members of his administration including Pam Bondi, the attorney general, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, the director and deputy director of the FBI, had vowed to investigate the Epstein file to provide answers not just to the public but to his hundreds of victims.
However, the only evidence published by the administration has been documents that had already been made public through civil litigation or freedom of information requests.
The backlash on Monday was swift and brutal from his “Make America Great Again” movement – who have long held as an article of faith that “Deep State” elites were protecting Epstein’s most powerful associates in the Democratic Party and Hollywood.
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