Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Virginia Giuffre describes a 15-year-old girl sitting on a curb in Miami, crying and bleeding. The girl—Giuffre—looked up to see a limousine stopping in front of her. 

The car stopped; inside were a well-dressed man and a young girl. The man took pity on Giuffre, who had just run away from a “juvenile detention facility in Palm Beach County” (3). When Giuffre first fled juvie—an establishment called Growing Together—she wound up on a beach where she met a man who offered her a place to stay for the night. He treated her kindly and did not take advantage of her. Afterward, she tried to hitchhike to the next town. The man who gave her a ride brought her to a seedy motel and violently raped her; she ran away to keep him from killing her and ended up on this curb. 

The limo contained the modeling agent Ron Eppinger, who offered Giuffre a job and promised to care for her. Once at his place in Key Biscayne, Giuffre feared that Ron would hurt her like so many other men, but she felt helpless. Desperate for a different life, she accepted his nickname for her, “baby,” and agreed to stay with him and do what he said.