Nobody’s Girl is due for publication in the U.S. by Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on Tuesday and will tell the life story of a woman who helped expose Jeffrey Epstein’s campaign of abuse against young—and in some cases, underage—girls. Giuffre died in April, and her publisher said she « took her own life. »

In 2022, she filed a lawsuit accusing Prince Andrew of rape, saying she was trafficked by Epstein to London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands to have sex with the royal and feared death if she refused. Andrew denied the allegations and settled out of court for an undisclosed sum while denying liability.

Nigel Cawthorne, who wrote an unauthorised biography Virginia Giuffre in 2022, told Newsweek: « I guess that it’s a more poignant story now she is dead. She speaks from beyond the grave. »

Why It Matters

Publicity material for the book says she played a crucial role not only in bringing down Epstein but also his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed for 20 years in June 2022.

« The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim, » the publisher’s website reads, « the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But her story has never been told in full, in her own words—until now. »

This will be Giuffre’s first published memoir, though she wrote another unpublished 139-page manuscript, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, which was included as evidence in a lawsuit she brought against Maxwell, which was settled in 2017. The text was unsealed for the first time in 2019.

Newsweek