One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most vocal accusers will have her memoir published posthumously.
Publishing house Alfred A. Knopf announced on Sunday that Virginia Giuffre‘s memoir, entitled “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” will hit the shelves on October 21. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, was working on the memoir with award-winning journalist Amy Wallace at the time of her passing, Knopf said in a statement to the Associated Press. The statement promised “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, Maxwell and their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew, about whom she speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022.”
The publisher included an email from Giuffre to Wallace, sent shortly before Giuffre’s death, in their announcement. That message asked that the 400-word manuscript be released in the event of her passing.
“The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders,” Giuffre wrote. “It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.”
Giufrre claimed she was approached by Epstein’s then-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, to be a masseuse for Epstein while working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Trump claims this poaching of masseuses led to his falling out with Epstein, telling reporters that Epstein “stole” Giuffre from his resort. Giuffre’s publisher said that “no allegations of abuse” against Trump are in the upcoming book.
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Giuffre had often claimed that she was sexually exploited by a trafficking ring run by Epstein in the early 2000s when she was a teenager. She accused UK royal Prince Andrew of abusing her. The brother of King Charles III has denied the allegations. A case brought by Giuffre in 2021 was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money the following year.
