Virginia Giuffre’s memoir details a lifetime of abuse—and the powerful efforts to silence her.

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Virginia Giuffre’s memoir details a lifetime of abuse—and the powerful efforts to silence her.


“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” writes Virginia Giuffre in her posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, released today. Key accusations had already entered the public domain over the last few days, and they make for harrowing reading. Among them: “Prince  Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright.” The memoir does more than catalogue a lifetime of alleged abuse—beginning at just age 6—it reflects the devastating toll of years spent fighting for justice and enduring public doubt and vilification. Giuffre, who took her own life in April of this year, had spent decades being treated not as a survivor, but as a problem to be managed or erased. Three weeks before her suicide, she wrote to Amy Wallace, her book’s ghostwriter, to say: “It is my heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time.”

Virginia Giuffre, with a photo of herself as a teen, when she says she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, among others.

(Image credit: Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Now, in light of the book’s publication—and an explosive report by the Daily Mail alleging that Prince Andrew enlisted his taxpayer-funded Metropolitan Police bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre, passing along her date of birth and even her U.S. Social Security number—serious questions need to be asked. Why do such tactics, aimed at discrediting women—and certainly not exclusive to Giuffre—continue to work so effectively?



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