Virginia Giuffre’s Last Wish Continues
One of the most high-profile accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, will tell her tale in her own voice this fall. Publishing company Alfred A. Knopf has announced the release of her memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice on October 21. The 400-page memoir was written with journalist Amy Wallace prior to Giuffre’s April death at age 41.
Giuffre had long planned for the book to be released, leaving behind an email only a few weeks before her death, calling for its publication “regardless” of her situation. She stated that it was her “heartfelt wish” that the memoir reveal the systemic failures that enable human trafficking to succeed.
A Story of Survival and Systemic Failures
Knopf’s announcement indicated that Giuffre had been hospitalized following a near-fatal accident in March. On April 1, she wrote to Wallace to confirm her insistence the book be published regardless of whether she survived or not. “I think it has the ability to affect a lot of people and create needed conversations regarding these egregious injustices,” she stated. Giuffre took her own life on April 25.
In accordance with Knopf, the memoir includes “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking” fresh information regarding her time with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their circle of powerful acquaintances. She publicly mentions him for the first time since her 2022 out-of-court settlement with Prince Andrew in the book. Although Giuffre’s recollections have been questioned throughout the years, Knopf underlined that the manuscript was “vigorously fact-checked and legally vetted.”
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Legal Battles and Lasting Legacy
Giuffre gained international prominence in the early 2000s after claiming to have been recruited as a teen into Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. She accused powerful individuals, including Prince Andrew, whom she denied having encountered but settled with in 2022. Giuffre also dropped charges against attorney Alan Dershowitz in 2022, admitting she could have mistaken him.
The memoir’s journey to bookstores was itself a narrative. Originally attached to a seven-figure contract with Penguin Press, Giuffre transferred her work to Knopf after editor Emily Cunningham, whom she had been working with, left to join the publishing company as executive editor.
Knopf editor Jordan Pavlin called Nobody’s Girl “raw and shocking” and an intimate report of “a fierce spirit fighting to break loose.” The memoir, with Giuffre’s own words and last wishes, promises to set off new conversations about accountability, justice, and the secret webs of abuse.
