Ghislaine Maxwell’s foundation donated $1,000 to New York-Presbyterian Hospital—the same facility where Virginia Giuffre says she miscarried after abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, according to tax records obtained by the Daily Mail.
The rarely active foundation made few donations—and none in some years—making the hospital gift its largest that year of 2001. It came just months after Epstein’s first arrest and criminal charges in Florida.
In her posthumous book Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre claims she was taken to the hospital in July 2001 after waking in a pool of blood, with Epstein later telling her she had lost the baby. Giuffre details claims about the events leading up to the visit to the hospital.
Giuffre reiterates her disputed claim that Prince Andrew joined an “orgy” with her and several other young women on Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2001—a claim Andrew has repeatedly denied, saying in a 2019 BBC interview he never met her or had any sexual contact. There is no indication that he was the father of her unborn child.
Giuffre wrote that she, Epstein, and Prince Andrew flew from Epstein’s island to Palm Beach on July 4, 2001, and four days later, she and Epstein flew with Maxwell to New York. She said she hadn’t felt well for weeks and awoke in a “pool of blood” after napping at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
According to her book, she then “crawled to the intercom, screaming that I needed help. I remember Jojo, the butler at the Manhattan townhouse, was so kind, helping me down the stairs as Epstein and Maxwell got a car to take me to New York-Presbyterian Hospital.”
She wrote that, after being discharged a couple of days later, she noticed “a tiny incision near my belly button, which was consistent with a laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for an ectopic pregnancy… but Epstein told me I’d had a miscarriage, which is something altogether different.”
Financial records show the $1,000 hospital donation came from Ghislaine Maxwell’s private nonprofit, the Max Foundation TR, established in 1996 with Maxwell and a lawyer serving as trustees. The foundation made few donations over the years, sometimes none at all.
The largest recorded gift from the foundation was a $2,500 donation to the Clinton Foundation in 2003. Other contributions went to charities supporting underprivileged children, such as the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, as well as to various cultural organizations.
During the period when Jeffrey Epstein was under investigation in Florida, the foundation also made a $350 donation to Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), a New York–based nonprofit described as “the nation’s leading organization serving trafficking victims and survivors.” GEMS focuses on empowering commercially sexually exploited and domestically trafficked girls and young women aged 12 to 29.
The donation came two months before Epstein’s controversial Florida plea deal, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution, including from a minor, and received an 18-month sentence. A secret agreement with federal prosecutors shielded him from further charges.
Since then, Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. A Justice Department report later blamed his death on “negligence and misconduct” by jail staff. In 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and related crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Giuffre took her own life on April 25, 2025, aged 41, in Western Australia. Prince Andrew has also recently relinquished his royalty title amidst the Epstein saga controversy.
