Virginia Giuffre's battle to escape the past
A 41-year-old American woman took her life alone at her home in Neergabby, a tiny rural village 50 miles north of Perth, Australia. Nine thousand miles away, a 65-year-old British man living alone in a lodge 26 miles west of London will be forever bound to her by her death.
Virginia Giuffre's suicide is an immeasurably sad end to the life of the girl who was first sexually abused by men at the age of seven, became a runaway, lived in foster homes, and was homeless and hopeless until at the age of 16 she finally had the strength to attempt a fresh start.
That fresh start was a job as a lowly locker girl in the spa at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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