In May 2020, Virginia Giuffre took to Twitter with a question for podcast host Joe Rogan. The survivor, who would later pass away in 2024, publicly challenged the popular commentator about his interview with Adam Perry Lang, Jeffrey Epstein’s former personal chef.
Her message was direct: why hadn’t Rogan pressed Lang about what he witnessed on Epstein’s private island?
“Ask your mate @joerogan why he didn’t ask Adam Perry Lang, Epstein’s former chef, who knew about the underage sex op, witnessed it and served plates to the participants,” Giuffre wrote. “I know. I was there.”
The tweet referenced Lang’s appearance on Rogan’s platform, where the chef, who later became renowned for his barbecue expertise, discussed his culinary career. According to Giuffre’s memoir, Lang worked for Epstein in the early 2000s, preparing the healthy cuisine his employer demanded: tofu, fish kabobs, and hummus.
In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” Giuffre described the kitchen on Epstein’s Caribbean island as one of her preferred spaces, largely because of how Lang treated her. She wrote that he looked her in the eye and spoke to her with basic human dignity, even when Epstein required the young women to remain unclothed around the property.
Giuffre’s account also revealed how even the smallest parts of daily life were tightly controlled inside Epstein’s world. Food, in particular, became a tool of domination. The young women were expected to maintain specific appearances that pleased Epstein, with Ghislaine Maxwell enforcing those standards aggressively.
Maxwell monitored what the girls ate and treated their bodies as something to be managed.
In that environment, even ordinary comforts became acts of quiet rebellion. Giuffre recalled moments when Lang would secretly prepare food that was forbidden under Maxwell’s rigid oversight. After she had finished attending to Epstein, Lang would sometimes have pizza waiting for her, even offering her a beer alongside it.
“Everyone knew what a stern taskmaster she was when it came to menus and household routines,” Giuffre wrote about Ghislaine Maxwell, who managed Epstein’s properties. Despite Maxwell’s oversight, these small acts of kindness in the kitchen represented moments of autonomy for Giuffre.
