Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, will release a posthumous memoir entitled ‘Nobody’s Girl’ six months after she took her own life this year aged 41
Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre is set to publish a bombshell book from beyond the grave.
‘Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’ is scheduled for release on October 21, around six months after Ms Giuffre took her own life aged 41. She had been working on the book with author Amy Wallace in the month before her death, and completed the 400-page manuscript.
Virginia Giuffre said she was just 17 when she was sexually abused by American financier Jeffrey Epstein – and also made allegations against the Duke of York. Andrew and Giuffre reached an out-of-court financial settlement in February 2022 to end her civil sexual assault lawsuit.
The settlement was not an admission of guilt and he accepted no liability. He has continuously denied any wrongdoing in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what investigators described as a suicide. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in late 2021 on sex trafficking and other charges.
A statement from Knopf, the publisher of Virginia’s posthumous book, included an email sent by her to Ms Wallace a few weeks before her death, saying that she hoped the book would “impact many lives” and expose how human trafficking takes place.
The email reads: “The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders.
“It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.” “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.”
In 2023, it was reported that Giuffre had reached a deal “believed to be worth millions” with an undisclosed publisher.
It comes after Ghislaine Maxwell dragged Princess Diana into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by claiming the paedophile was set up with her.
In tapes made public on Friday by the US Justice Department, the disgraced socialite – who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for human trafficking – told US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she believed the financier had travelled to Britain to meet Diana.
Discussing Epstein’s alleged courtship of the Princess, she said he had gone to a “big event” in the UK without her, and said: “I don’t know if he sat with Diana or he met with Diana and he’d already met her. I don’t know, but this, I believe, was organised by [one of Diana’s closest confidantes].”
She added: “I don’t know if she was being set up as a date for him, maybe because she was… I don’t want to speak bad of Diana, but… I’m not going to do that.” She also told how Epstein had lived in London for a period in the 1980s and mixed with “high society people”.
Elsewhere in the interviews, Maxwell was questioned on Epstein’s relationship with US President Donald Trump, and said she “never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way” and that he was “never inappropriate with anybody”, the transcripts said.