The documentary series Surviving Jeffrey Epstein demonstrates very well how and why the victims were sucked in to Epstein and Maxwell's world and why they felt powerless to leave, even if they weren't actually locked up. Many of the girls and young women had mothers who were in prison or on drugs and absent fathers. Another similarity was that many of them had already been abused as younger children, as Virginia was. There was no adult to stand up for them, and the two abusers were as rich and powerful as it's possible to be. They threatened Virginia with harming her little brother and they said they basically owned the Palm Beach police. As some lawyers in the documentary series said, these were people you didn't want to cross. For young, alone, disadvantaged girls in their teens, Epstein and Maxwell would have been impossible to stand up to, especially after all the grooming.
I am so, so sorry for Virginia, that after all her fighting, her life has ended this way.
I believe her about Prince Andrew, too. The Mail on Sunday ran an article with a photographer who had met with Virginia in 2011. He had seen and photographed the original of that snap of PA and Virginia together, and photographed the back of it. It had a time/date/location stamp fitting her US-UK movements.
So yes, I believe her, and I think Prince Andrew bears some of the blame for being one of the many abusers that Virginia suffered in her life.
When I found out more about her life story and that of other victims via the documentary, I thanked God for my parents and the life I had. Some young people have no one who cares about them.