Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death,
it's coming out
[August 25, 2025]
By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey
Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be
published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.
“Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” is
scheduled for release Oct. 21, the publisher confirmed to The Associated
Press. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, had been working
on “Nobody's Girl” with author-journalist Amy Wallace and had completed
the manuscript for the 400-page book, according to Knopf. The
publisher's statement includes an email from Giuffre to Wallace a few
weeks before her death, saying that it was her “heartfelt wish” the
memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.
“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,” the email reads. “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.”
Giuffre had been hospitalized following a serious accident March 24,
Knopf said, and sent the email April 1. She died April 25.
“In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that NOBODY’S GIRL
is still released. I believe it has the potential to impact many lives
and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices,” she
wrote to Wallace.
In 2023, the New York Post had reported that Giuffre had reached a deal
“believed to be worth millions” with an undisclosed publisher. Knopf
spokesperson Todd Doughty said that she initially agreed to a
seven-figure contract with Penguin Press, but moved with acquiring
editor Emily Cunningham after Knopf hired Cunningham as executive editor
last year.
Giuffre had stated often that, in the early 2000s, when she was a
teenager, she was caught up in Epstein's sex-trafficking ring and
exploited by Britain's Prince Andrew and other influential men. Epstein
was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what
investigators described as a suicide. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine
Maxwell, was convicted in late 2021 on sex trafficking and other
charges.
Andrew had denied Giuffre's allegations. In 2022, Giuffre and Andrew
reached an out-of-court settlement after she had sued him for sexual
assault. A representative for Andrew did not immediately return the AP's
request for comment.
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 “Nobody’s Girl” is distinct from
Giuffre’s unpublished memoir, “The Billionaire’s Playboy Club,”
referenced in previous court filings and initially unsealed in 2019.
Through Doughty, Wallace says she began working with Giuffre on a
new memoir in spring 2021.
Giuffre's name has continued to appear in
headlines, even after her death. In July, President Donald Trump
told reporters that Epstein had “stolen” Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago,
his private club in Florida where she once worked. She had alleged
being approached by Maxwell and hired as a masseuse for Epstein.
Maxwell has denied Giuffre's allegations.
Doughty declined to provide details about the Epstein associates
featured in “Nobody's Girl,” but confirmed that Giuffre made “no
allegations of abuse against Trump,” who continues to face questions
about Epstein, the disgraced financier and his former friend.
Knopf's statement says the book contains “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.” Knopf Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Jordan
Pavlin, in a statement, called “Nobody's Girl” a “raw and shocking”
journey and “the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break free.”
Giuffre's time with Epstein is well documented, although her
accounts have been challenged. She had acknowledged getting details
wrong, errors she attributed to trying to recall events from years
ago. In 2022, she dropped allegations against Alan Dershowitz,
saying in a statement at the time that she may “have made a mistake
in identifying” the famed attorney as an abuser.
“'Nobody's Girl' was both vigorously fact-checked and legally
vetted,” a Knopf statement reads.
Giuffre's co-author on her memoir, Wallace, is an award-winning
magazine and newspaper reporter whose work has appeared in The New
York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She
has also collaborated on two previous books, Pixar co-founder Ed
Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.” and former General Electric CEO Jeff
Immelt’s “Hot Seat.”
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