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The American-born Giuffre, who lived in Australia for years, became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure inThe wealthy, well-connected New York money manager
in August 2019 while awaiting trial on U.S.involving dozens of teenage girls and young women, some as young as 14. The charges came 14 years after police in Palm Beach, Florida, first began investigating allegations that he sexually abused underage girls who were hired to give him massages.Giuffre came forward publicly after the initial investigation ended in an 18-month Florida jail term for Epstein, who made
to avoid federal prosecution by pleading guilty instead to relatively minor state-level charges of soliciting prostitution. He was released in 2009.In subsequent lawsuits, Giuffre said she was a teenage spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago — President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club — when she was approached in 2000 by Epstein’s girlfriend and later employee, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Giuffre said Maxwell hired her as a masseuse for Epstein, but the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein but his friends and associates. Giuffre said she was flown around the world for assignations with men including
while she was 17 and 18.Atayi also owns a hair salon in a building that’s on the verge of collapse. When that happens, she will be out of business.
Atsu Godslove Afeli poses for a portrait in his room in his family home that was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Atsu Godslove Afeli poses for a portrait in his room in his family home that was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
The destruction of Atsu Godslove Afeli’s home began gradually. But a month ago, the last of the building collapsed, leaving him, his four children and his brother with nowhere to sleep but a fuel station behind their destroyed home.Afeli said he never thought it could happen because “the distance from our house to the seashore was very long and it (was) hard to believe that the sea could reach this place.” In recent months, however, he became sad, depressed and frustrated as the waves got closer and finally toppled his home.