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Uncle Joe

(63,803 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:49 PM Aug 2025

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.

“Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” is scheduled for release Oct. 21, the publisher confirmed to The Associated Press. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, had been working on “Nobody’s Girl” with author-journalist Amy Wallace and had completed the manuscript for the 400-page book, according to Knopf. The publisher’s statement includes an email from Giuffre to Wallace a few weeks before her death, saying that it was her “heartfelt wish” the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.

“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,” the email reads. “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.”

(snip)

“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,” she wrote to Wallace.

(snip)

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-giuffre-memoir-jeffrey-epstein-11a44440f4d0e50c8d6f3741640540d2

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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it's coming out (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 2025 OP
Hey repubes BoRaGard Aug 2025 #1
It's self-protection for way too many Republicans IronLionZion Aug 2025 #7
Trump is the new Jesus Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #19
I'd still like to know how much the Royal Family knew about Andrew's involvement. Chasstev365 Aug 2025 #2
I want to know mgardener Aug 2025 #6
I care very little about them. I care very much that we Americans clean our own house. Hekate Aug 2025 #10
Andrew finally did tell his mother about the "trouble" he was in with Virginia Roberts' lawsuit FakeNoose Aug 2025 #15
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against him alleging that he sexually abused her when she was 17 Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #30
Yes it was all kept private and out of the news FakeNoose Aug 2025 #33
I hope it kills Pedo the Great BaronChocula Aug 2025 #3
I keep hoping for a stroke dflprincess Aug 2025 #11
Actually, BaronChocula Aug 2025 #13
TRUMP WILL ATTACK IT Jimvanhise Aug 2025 #4
He will attack it AND the publisher. MLWR Aug 2025 #14
Maybe run to the SC and have it banned here Deuxcents Aug 2025 #27
I'm not so sure, Virginia Roberts didn't have much to say about Chump FakeNoose Aug 2025 #16
I thought she worked for donald, and Epstein stole her. 1WorldHope Aug 2025 #22
She worked at Mar-A-Lago for a couple weeks in the summer Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #24
I think this is the extent of public statements by Virginia Giuffre about Trump Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #23
Why would he attack it? Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #20
And? SidneyR Aug 2025 #5
Pub date is Oct 21, which is barely 2 months from now. My guess is it's at the printers already. Hekate Aug 2025 #12
I bet lots of copies will be Christmas gifts. calimary Aug 2025 #18
I hope it comes out but it's a sure bet there will moniss Aug 2025 #8
From who? Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #25
The typical approach to a publisher moniss Aug 2025 #34
A few folks are shaking in their boots. I hope it makes it to publication. Joinfortmill Aug 2025 #9
Obviously, there's nothing about Trump in the story... Escape Aug 2025 #17
The publisher confirmed the book does not contain allegations of abuse against Donald Trump. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #26
Good to know so the public can plan for a major distraction in late October bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #21
If this were Biden, the M$M would be rolling out the red carpet for every victim Blue Owl Aug 2025 #28
I believe the only people she previously named publicly or in court filings were Epstein himself, Maxwell, Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #29
I looked for it on Amazon and coudn't find it. Something weird going on? fierywoman Aug 2025 #31
It's not set to be published until October 21st. Uncle Joe Aug 2025 #32
We also have to remember that VG is telling her story and there moniss Aug 2025 #35
Wow, wow, wow! brakester Aug 2025 #36
There were health issues, in addition to her life being ruined by Maxwell and Epstein FakeNoose Aug 2025 #37

IronLionZion

(50,474 posts)
7. It's self-protection for way too many Republicans
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:18 PM
Aug 2025

There's something very rotten in that party

mgardener

(2,242 posts)
6. I want to know
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:08 PM
Aug 2025

Who knew about Trump and Melania and never said anything during his runs for POTUS.

Hekate

(100,130 posts)
10. I care very little about them. I care very much that we Americans clean our own house.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:43 PM
Aug 2025

FakeNoose

(39,678 posts)
15. Andrew finally did tell his mother about the "trouble" he was in with Virginia Roberts' lawsuit
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:07 PM
Aug 2025

It was a private conversation so nobody except the royal family really knows what Andrew told her.

However she immediately took action and said that he could no longer represent the royal family for any public events. Andrew was sent to hide away in his royal mansion out of the public eye, and to stay away from reporters who were hounding him for details.

Poor Queen Elizabeth had such losers for sons.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
30. Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against him alleging that he sexually abused her when she was 17
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:34 PM
Aug 2025

They reached an out-of-court settlement in 2022. So he apparently did agree to pay her something to make it go away.

BaronChocula

(3,848 posts)
3. I hope it kills Pedo the Great
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:49 PM
Aug 2025

Or gives him a debilitating aneurysm. But in the latter case, who would know?

dflprincess

(29,098 posts)
11. I keep hoping for a stroke
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:44 PM
Aug 2025

That leaves him paralyzed and unable to speak, but aware of everything around him. He doesn't deserve a quick death.

Jimvanhise

(548 posts)
4. TRUMP WILL ATTACK IT
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:59 PM
Aug 2025

even before it is published because he fears its contents. Apparently the dead can still tell tales, as Trump will soon discover. He really should resign and flee to one of those Arab countries who will welcome him and allow him to hide in luxury.

MLWR

(694 posts)
14. He will attack it AND the publisher.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:02 PM
Aug 2025

He will probably sue the publisher until he realizes that there WILL be discovery.

FakeNoose

(39,678 posts)
16. I'm not so sure, Virginia Roberts didn't have much to say about Chump
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:15 PM
Aug 2025

Her testimony and rape/pedophile charges were against Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein.

I don't think she knew Chump much at all, and she wasn't present at any of the "parties" that included him. There were leaked depositions of her testimony, probably 9 or 10 years ago (?) and she wasn't sure who he was. I guess she knew Chump's name but she couldn't identify him in a photo.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre is someone whose life was ruined by Epstein and Maxwell. She committed suicide just this past spring, so it's a very sad story about her.

1WorldHope

(1,797 posts)
22. I thought she worked for donald, and Epstein stole her.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:59 PM
Aug 2025

There was very little that Virginia didn't know.
I'm so sad she killed herself, but, I can imagine how tired she was of fighting and losing the battle for truth. I so hope she gets revenge from the other side.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
24. She worked at Mar-A-Lago for a couple weeks in the summer
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:12 PM
Aug 2025

a job her father got her since he was a maintenance supervisor there. She likely never met Trump while she worked there and I'm sure Trump had no idea who she was. The "stolen" line was a lie from Trump looking to defend his lie that he broke off his friendship with Epstein because of that, even though he maintained that friendship for at least 4 years after Virginia Giuffre went to "work" for Epstein. Trump knew her name now because she has been in the media a lot over the past 6 months. The thing is, if he really knew her in 2000, her name was Virginia Roberts then - kind of strong evidence he only knows her name now from media reports, not any first hand knowledge.


Also, the publisher of her memoir confirmed the book does not contain allegations of abuse against Donald Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/us/virginia-giuffre-memoir-jeffery-epstein?Date=20250824&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1756062198&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawMYkwFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0SDRzQzB6dGIzVE5ocGFXAR5m1nL-qu91XXlEDXPk1U9VDrcujGcCx-qC-94amjggbA85MlYPT88Owxky-g_aem_wDFzqNKsgcx8YUNWpFG1WQ

Doughty declined to provide details about the Epstein associates featured in “Nobody’s Girl,” but confirmed that Giuffre made “no allegations of abuse against Trump,” who continues to face questions about Epstein, the disgraced financier and his former friend.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
23. I think this is the extent of public statements by Virginia Giuffre about Trump
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:02 PM
Aug 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-epstein-relationship-records/

In a 2016 deposition of Giuffre that was released, she was asked about Trump. Giuffre said she had been recruited by Maxwell when she was a 17-year-old spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago.

“I don’t think Donald Trump participated in anything,” she said. “That would have to be another assumption. I never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts, but was he in the house of Jeffrey Epstein.”

She said that anyone who visited Epstein’s house would have seen his many nude photos of women displayed on the walls. “These are salacious acts of girls, young girls doing things to each other that would be considered child pornography,” Giuffre testified. “If you walked foot into Jeffrey Epstein’s house and you went in there and you continued to be an acquaintance of his then you would have to know what was going on there.”


This could be interpreted as accusing Trump of knowing what Epstein was doing and failing to do anything about it.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
20. Why would he attack it?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:42 PM
Aug 2025

She's already said she never saw any wrongdoing from Trump. So there's basically no chance she says anything implicating him of doing anything other than being a friend of Epstein's.

SidneyR

(200 posts)
5. And?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:59 PM
Aug 2025

Why aren't her words actually put out there? Why is it just, oh, she might have said . . .

Hekate

(100,130 posts)
12. Pub date is Oct 21, which is barely 2 months from now. My guess is it's at the printers already.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:48 PM
Aug 2025

Further queries can no doubt be addressed to Alfred A. Knopf.

moniss

(8,483 posts)
8. I hope it comes out but it's a sure bet there will
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:21 PM
Aug 2025

be massive legal maneuvers to try and keep it from happening.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
25. From who?
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:20 PM
Aug 2025

Maxwell doesn't have a leg to stand on. And the publisher already confirmed Trump isn't accused of anything in the book. Maybe Prince Andrew, who it's been confirmed is mentioned in the book. Anyone else trying to stop publication would in fact be admitting they had some connection to Epstein - not the wisest move in the world.

moniss

(8,483 posts)
34. The typical approach to a publisher
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:29 AM
Aug 2025

with legal pressure isn't going to usually be made public right away. Lawyer A contacts the legal department for the publisher and the discussions take place behind closed doors. If things get really nasty you might then see things made public about who is making waves.

Remember that the goal of a lawyer representing someone named in the book would be to convince the publisher that the subject person being included is not supported by facts etc. and to get the publisher to edit them out of anything that gets published. In those scenarios a publisher isn't going to divulge who they took out.

Escape

(339 posts)
17. Obviously, there's nothing about Trump in the story...
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:22 PM
Aug 2025

or that would have been the headline.

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
26. The publisher confirmed the book does not contain allegations of abuse against Donald Trump.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:22 PM
Aug 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/us/virginia-giuffre-memoir-jeffery-epstein?Date=20250824&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1756062198&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawMYkwFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0SDRzQzB6dGIzVE5ocGFXAR5m1nL-qu91XXlEDXPk1U9VDrcujGcCx-qC-94amjggbA85MlYPT88Owxky-g_aem_wDFzqNKsgcx8YUNWpFG1WQ

Doughty declined to provide details about the Epstein associates featured in “Nobody’s Girl,” but confirmed that Giuffre made “no allegations of abuse against Trump,” who continues to face questions about Epstein, the disgraced financier and his former friend.

bucolic_frolic

(53,445 posts)
21. Good to know so the public can plan for a major distraction in late October
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:42 PM
Aug 2025

Market peak and plunge?

Wiz Imp

(8,365 posts)
29. I believe the only people she previously named publicly or in court filings were Epstein himself, Maxwell,
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:29 PM
Aug 2025

Prince Andrew & Alan Dershowitz. She later (sort of) retracted the accusation against Dershowitz. They had both sued each other for defamation and both agreed to drop those suits. She stated she may have "made a mistake in identifying" him as one of her abusers. Not exactly a full retraction.

moniss

(8,483 posts)
35. We also have to remember that VG is telling her story and there
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:38 AM
Aug 2025

are many more stories out there with some having come forward and some not. Which means that just because one or the other didn't see Crumb The 1st do anything it doesn't mean he didn't with others they didn't see. I think he was aware enough that he wouldn't have done anything except when alone with a girl.

brakester

(508 posts)
36. Wow, wow, wow!
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 10:06 AM
Aug 2025

What an important gift she gave to the world!!!

This is a must- read!

I'm so sorry she decided to cross the River Jordan at such a young age, but I fully respect her decision. I can only imagine what immense pain she lived with.

What a woman!!!

Thank you, Virginia!

FakeNoose

(39,678 posts)
37. There were health issues, in addition to her life being ruined by Maxwell and Epstein
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 10:37 AM
Aug 2025

... and I agree that it took a lot of courage for her to write the book and leave a written record.

Rest In Peace, Virginia Roberts Giuffre .... condolences to her loved ones.

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