Months before her tragic death, Virginia Giuffre finished work on her long-awaited memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, and now, excerpts from the book have shed new light on her years entangled with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their powerful circle of friends.
In the pages of the posthumous release, Giuffre makes shocking claims about Prince Andrew, alleging that he viewed sleeping with her as his “birthright” when she was just 17 years old.
“In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved,” she wrote. “He was friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
The memoir discusses the first night she claims that she met the Duke of York in London, introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell at her Mayfair townhouse. Feeling like “Cinderella” meeting a “prince,” Giuffre said she was quickly thrust into a world she didn’t fully understand. Later that evening, she said, Epstein snapped a now-infamous photograph of her with the Duke and Maxwell before they went to Tramp nightclub, where she remembered him as “a bumbling dancer” who “sweated profusely.”
According to Giuffre, Maxwell told her after the outing: “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.” What followed, Giuffre alleges, was a disturbing encounter she says she’s replayed in her mind for years.
The book also details two further alleged meetings with the Duke — one at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and another on his private island, Little Saint James. Giuffre describes how Maxwell once handed the Duke a Spitting Image puppet of himself, which she claims he used inappropriately, writing: “The symbolism was impossible to ignore. Johanna [Sjoberg] and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.”
The Duke of York has long denied all allegations and previously reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022, with no admission of guilt. In October 2025, just days before the memoir was set to hit shelves, Andrew announced he would no longer use his royal titles or honours after a “family discussion”.
“In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family,” he said in an official statement by Buckingham Palace.
Prince Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.(Credit: Getty)
Elsewhere in the memoir, Giuffre recalls her first meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, where she worked as a teenager. She wrote that her father, Sky Roberts — who maintained the club’s air-conditioning and tennis courts — proudly introduced her to Trump, who “couldn’t have been friendlier” and told her he was glad she was there.
In another disturbing recollection, Giuffre describes the first time she encountered Maxwell, likening her to an “apex predator” who lured her into Epstein’s world under the guise of offering her a massage job. “My body was used in ways that did enormous damage to me,” Giuffre wrote. “But the worst things Epstein and Maxwell did weren’t physical, but psychological.”
“From the start, they manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself. From the start, I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation. Of all the terrible wounds they inflicted, that forced complicity was the most destructive.”
Before her death in April 2025, Virginia had been determined to see her story told. In an email to her co-author, journalist Amy Wallace, she made it clear that she wanted the book to be released “even in the event of my passing.”
“The content of this book is crucial,” she wrote. “It aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders. 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.”
Now, that wish will come true. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf has confirmed the memoir’s October 2025 release, calling it “intimate, disturbing and heartbreaking.” Editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin described it as “the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break free.”
When Giuffre’s family announced she had died in Neergabby, Western Australia, they said she had “lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
“She was the light that lifted so many survivors,” their statement read. “Despite all the adversity she faced, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure. The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily.”
However, her father, Sky Roberts, later expressed doubts about the official cause of death, telling Piers Morgan Uncensored that “there’s no way” his daughter would have taken her own life. “She’s strong…she had too much to live for,” he said.
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