Virginia Giuffre's Posthumous Memoir Is an Indictment of the Men--and Institutions--That Enabled Her Abuse
(and the obscene, MISOGYNIST, PATRIARCHAL, THEOCRATIC, CHRISTOFASCIST WAR ON WOMEN continues apace)
Virginia Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir Is an Indictment of the Men—and Institutions—That Enabled Her Abuse TRIGGER WARNING
PUBLISHED 11/20/2025 by Gail Dines
Sky Roberts, brother of Virginia Giuffre, and his wife Amanda Roberts during a news conference with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein outside the U.S. Capitol on November 18, 2025. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
I thought I was mentally prepared to read Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous book, Nobody’s Girl. I was wrong. Although I have been researching and writing about the sexual exploitation industries for over 30 years, worked with survivors and seen more violent pornography than any woman should have to endure, the account of her abuse, told in painful detail, was unbearable. If reading the book was gut-wrenching, I can’t imagine what it was like for her and other girls and women who experience the horrors of being trafficked. Giuffre, in the end, couldn’t survive living with this trauma. She died by suicide at the age of 41. That fact hangs over the book—and the reader.******** But in truth, her cruel abusers killed her. SHE WAS SEXUALLY TORTURED TO DEATH. (emphasis mine) *********
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice was published on Oct. 21, 2025.
Giuffre was repeatedly raped by many, if not hundreds of men, beginning with her father and one of his friends. By the time Giuffre met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who first encountered Giuffre as she walked to work at the spa at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, multiple rapes had transformed her into the “perfect” victim for them. For more than two years, Giuffre was held captive by these seasoned predators who, together with hundreds of men, committed unspeakable acts of sexual, physical and psychological violence. She was beaten, strangled, bloodied and so infected with gynecological ailments that at times she could not even hold her urine. So brutal were some of her tormentors that Giuffre hoped to pass out from the pain for relief. Like many other victims of abuse, Giuffre turned to pills and self-harm to try and soothe her torments.
Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell at Prince Andrew’s London home. (Photo released with court documents)
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Survivor Teresa Helm and lawyer Sigrid McCawley, who represented many of the survivors including Virginia Giuffre, at a survivor-led rally on Sept. 3, 2025, calling for passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Jenny Warburg)
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Amanda Roberts holds up a photo of Giuffre during a news conference with lawmakers on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 18, 2025. (Heather Diehl / Getty Images)
Epstein and Maxwell presided over a massive international organization, facilitated by banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Bank of America. Also on the payroll were pilots, chefs, accountants, drivers, security guards, gardeners, boat crews, physicians, house managers, and surely more than a few customs officials, police and politicians. The circle of complicity in their crimes was vast. Epstein and Maxwell cozied up to Bill Clinton, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, the CEO of Barclays, the founder of Victoria’s Secret, Bill Gates, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and loathsome “Prince” Andrew. Giuffre also mentions that she was raped by an unnamed prime minister, among other high-level politicians. Donald Trump called Epstein a “great guy” who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Giuffre’s abusers were a who’s who of the global male elite, while Giuffre herself was uneducated and poor. All the high-profile men and institutions showered by Epstein’s largesse helped gild his abuses with a veneer of refinement and approval.
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Danny Wilson and Sky Roberts, brothers of Giuffre, at a dinner and reception hosted by World Without Exploitation on Sept. 2, 2025, the night before a press conference and rally calling for justice for the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates and passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Jenny Warburg)
Giuffre’s life was horrific and tragic. It is the same horror that so many other girls experience, albeit in far less opulent surroundings. And so few of the perpetrators, from the trailer park to Park Avenue, are ever held accountable. In this way, Giuffre speaks for victims and survivors who do not have a public voice but who suffer the same appalling childhood rape and sexual violence. In fact, pick up just about any autobiographical account by a woman who escaped prostitution or pornography, and you will read a similar tale of abuse and violence. In the final paragraph of the book, and perhaps in some of the final sentences she ever wrote, Giuffre tells that she will have achieved her goal with Nobody’s Girl if “just one person” is moved to create “a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as everybody else.” Although she never lived to see this day, her book, her courage and her rage compel us to fight for this goal in the name of all victims and survivors of sex trafficking.
Sky and Amanda Roberts outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 18, 2025. (Heather Diehl / Getty Images)
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