VIRGINIA GIUFFRE’S FINAL WORDS — A MEMOIR THAT COULD ROCK HOLLYWOOD, POLITICS, AND ROYALTY
For years, Virginia Giuffre’s voice was one that refused to be silenced.
Now, even after her passing, her 400-page memoir is set to uncover hidden struggles, powerful names, and the painful truth behind one of the most disturbing scandals in recent history. What secrets remain in her story—and who tried to keep them buried?
Photographed on August 27, 2019, Giuffre became one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he organized years of sexual abuse involving her and numerous other young women and girls. Giuffre passed away earlier this year, and her publisher has announced that her memoir will be released this October.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre played a crucial role in bringing to light what federal prosecutors would later describe as a massive sex trafficking network run by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Now, her memoir is set to reveal even more. Titled Nobody’s Girl, the book will be published posthumously on October 21 by Alfred A. Knopf, just months after she died by suicide at age 41.
Knopf describes Giuffre as “the woman whose courage to speak out led to both serial predators being imprisoned, and whose now-infamous photograph with Prince Andrew marked the beginning of his public downfall.”
News of the memoir’s release follows her death in April in Australia, where she had been living a quieter life as a wife and mother.
“She left a memoir written in the years before her passing and made it clear she wanted it published,” Knopf stated. “Nobody’s Girl is a gripping and powerful account of an ordinary young woman who faced extraordinary hardship.”
Court documents—including depositions and an unpublished earlier memoir—detail how cycles of abuse shaped Giuffre’s early years. In these records, she described how adults who promised to help her as a teenager ultimately became abusers.
The memoir not only recounts these experiences but also documents her long and difficult fight to break free and hold those responsible to account.
Giuffre’s story intersects with some of the world’s most powerful figures. In a 2016 deposition, she testified that in 2000, while working as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s resort in Florida, Ghislaine Maxwell approached her under the guise of offering massages—an encounter that she says led to years of abuse by Epstein, who lived nearby.
Maxwell has denied many of Giuffre’s claims. In 2022, she received a 20-year prison sentence for her role in running Epstein’s trafficking operation involving underage girls.
In recent statements, Trump said he distanced himself from Epstein years before the financier’s arrest, claiming they fell out after Epstein began recruiting young women from Mar-a-Lago. He has also repeatedly urged his supporters to dismiss conspiracy theories about a hidden “client list” of influential men tied to Epstein’s crimes.
In a conversation with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell said she never saw Trump, former President Bill Clinton, or other high-profile guests behave inappropriately during visits to Epstein’s properties, according to transcripts. This conversation occurred shortly before her transfer from a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison in Texas.
Giuffre’s earlier manuscript, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, released through court filings, revealed her struggles with anxiety, nightmares, and lingering trauma while building a family life in Australia.
She explained that she decided to come forward after a U.S. federal agent contacted her to inform her that she had been identified as a victim in Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida. That agreement included a victims’ compensation fund, prompting her to reach out to the listed law firm.
“It was finally my turn,” Giuffre wrote in the earlier memoir. “I had the chance to turn the tables on him—to put him under the same light he had cast on so many others.”
In 2009, Giuffre filed a lawsuit against Epstein, accusing him of running a “child exploitation enterprise,” transporting minors for illegal purposes, and secretly recording abuse in his Palm Beach mansion. Epstein ultimately settled the case for more than $500,000. That settlement was unsealed in January 2022; one month later, Prince Andrew reached a settlement in Giuffre’s separate civil suit.
Epstein died in 2019 in a Manhattan federal detention center, with officials ruling it a suicide—though the circumstances of his death remain the subject of widespread skepticism.