Jeffrey
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre posthumous new memoir to be released
Virginia
Giuffre alleged she was trafficked for sex to Prince Andrew by Jeffrey Epstein
on several occasions when she was a teenager. (Reuters: Shannon Stapleton)
In short:
A
posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers will be
published this October.
Virginia
Giuffre had completed the 400-page manuscript before she took her life in
April, and it was her wish for it to be released, publishing house Alfred A.
Knopf said.
What's
next?
The book
contains "disturbing new details about her time with Epstein, [Ghislaine]
Maxwell ... and Prince Andrew, about whom she speaks publicly for the first
time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022".
A
posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by Virginia Giuffre, who alleged
she was trafficked for sex to Prince Andrew by Jeffrey Epstein, will be
published later this year.
Nobody's
Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for
release this October, publishing house Alfred A Knopf confirmed to The
Associated Press.
Ms
Giuffre, who took her own life 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 Ms Giuffre to the journalist 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."
Ms
Giuffre had been hospitalised following a serious accident on March 24, the
publishing house said, and sent the email on April 1.
She died
at her property in Neergabby in the shire of Gingin, about 80 kilometres north
of Perth, on 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 reported that Ms Giuffre had reached a deal "believed to
be worth millions" with an undisclosed publisher.
Knopf's
spokesperson, Todd Doughty, said 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.
'Intimate,
disturbing new details'
Ms
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 Prince
Andrew and other influential men.
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".
Epstein
was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what investigators
described as a suicide.
His
former girlfriend and associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in late 2021
of sex trafficking, recruiting and grooming girls for Epstein to abuse.
The Duke
of York has repeatedly denied Ms Guiffre's accusations that he forced her to
have sex more than two decades ago at the London home of Maxwell, and
allegations he abused her at Epstein's properties in Manhattan and the British
Virgin Islands.
Virginia
Giuffre, who alleged she was trafficked for sex to Prince Andrew by Jeffrey
Epstein, dies by suicide at the age of 41.
In 2022,
Ms Giuffre and Prince Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement after she sued
him for sexual assault.
Nobody's
Girl is distinct from Ms Giuffre's unpublished memoir, The Billionaire's
Playboy Club, referenced in previous court filings and initially unsealed in
2019.
Through
Mr Doughty, journalist Wallace says she began working with Ms Giuffre on a new
memoir in spring 2021.
Donald
Trump, Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together.
Donald
and Melania Trump pose with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the
Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach in 2000. (Getty Images: Davidoff Studios)
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".
Trump
says Epstein 'stole' Giuffre
In July,
US President Donald Trump told reporters that Epstein had "stolen" Ms
Giuffe 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.
The ghost
of Jeffrey Epstein haunts the world's most powerful men
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destinies of the world's most powerful men are all colliding with the ghost of
Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr
Doughty declined to provide details about the Epstein associates featured in
Nobody's Girl, but confirmed that Ms Giuffre made "no allegations of abuse
against Trump", who continues to face questions about Epstein, the
disgraced financier and his former friend.
Ms
Giuffre's time with Epstein is well-documented, although her accounts have been
challenged.
She had
acknowledged making mistakes, 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
lawyer as an abuser.
"Nobody's
Girl was both vigorously fact-checked and legally vetted," a Knopf
statement reads.
Ms
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.
AP
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