Publishing house Alfred A. Knopf announced Sunday that Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known accusers, will publish her posthumous and brutal memoir, NEW YORKA, this fall.
The publisher told The Associated Press that Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice will be published on October 21. According to Knopf, Giuffre finished the manuscript for the 400-page book Nobody’s Girl while working with author-journalist Amy Wallace. Giuffre passed away by suicide in April at the age of 41. A few weeks prior to her passing, Giuffre sent Wallace an email in which she expressed her sincere desire for the memoir to be published regardless of her personal situation, according to the publisher’s statement.
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According to the email, the book’s content is essential since it attempts to highlight the structural flaws that permit the cross-border trafficking of vulnerable people. For the purpose of justice and awareness, it is essential that the truth be known and that the problems pertaining to this subject be addressed.
According to Knopf, who sent the email on April 1, Giuffre had been hospitalized since a catastrophic accident on March 24. On April 25, she passed away.
I want to make sure that NOBODY S GIRL is still available in the event that I pass away. She responded to Wallace, “I think it has the potential to impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices.”
The New York Post revealed in 2023 that Giuffre had struck a deal with an unidentified publisher that was reportedly worth millions of dollars. According to Todd Doughty, a spokesman for Knopf, she first accepted a seven-figure deal with Penguin Press but later switched to acquiring editor Emily Cunningham after the latter was appointed executive editor by Knopf last year.
Giuffre has frequently claimed that she was taken advantage of by Prince Andrew of Britain and other powerful men while a teenager in the early 2000s, when she was entangled in Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. In 2019, Epstein was discovered dead in a detention cell in New York City, which investigators said was a suicide. In late 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell, his ex-girlfriend, was found guilty of sex trafficking and other offenses.
Giuffre’s accusations had been refuted by Andrew.Giuffre sued Andrew for sexual assault, and the two struck an out-of-court settlement in 2022. The AP’s request for comment was not immediately answered by an Andrew spokesman.
Nobody’s Girl is not the same as Giuffre’s unpublished memoir, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, which was first made public in 2019 and mentioned in earlier court documents. According to Doughty, in the spring of 2021, Wallace started collaborating with Giuffre on a new memoir.
Even after her passing, Giuffre’s name has persisted in making news. President Donald Trump informed reporters in July that Giuffre had been snatched by Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, his exclusive club in Florida, where she had previously worked. She had said that Maxwell had contacted her and hired her to massage Epstein. Giuffre’s claims have been refuted by Maxwell.
While confirming that Giuffre made no accusations of abuse against Trump, who is still being questioned about Epstein, the disgraced financier and his old friend, Doughty declined to elaborate on the Epstein associates mentioned in Nobody’s Girl.
Intimate, unsettling, and devastating new revelations regarding her time with Epstein, Maxwell, and their other famous friends—including Prince Andrew—are included in the book, according to Knopf’s release. This is the first time she has discussed Prince Andrew in public since their 2022 out-of-court settlement. “Nobody’s Girl is a raw and shocking journey and the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break free,” said Jordan Pavlin, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Knopf.
Although her stories have been contested, Giuffre’s experience with Epstein is widely known. She had admitted to making mistakes with details, which she ascribed to her attempt to remember things from years past. She retracted her accusations against Alan Dershowitz in 2022, stating in a statement that she could have erred in labeling the well-known lawyer an abuser.
“Nobody’s Girl” underwent a thorough fact-check and a legal review, according to a Knopf statement.
Award-winning magazine and newspaper reporter Wallace, who co-wrote Giuffre’s book, has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. She also co-wrote two more books: Jeff Immelt’s Hot Seat, the former CEO of General Electric, and Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc., the co-founder of Pixar.
