Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was an American social activist. Her work centered around advocating for women and girls who survived sexual abuse, sexual violence, and sex trafficking. While Giuffre was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s world for several years when she was a teenager, she did not come to the public’s attention until 2011. Shortly after her daughter’s birth, Giuffre “began speaking out about the abuse she endured at the hands of some of the world’s most powerful men,” beginning “when she was as young as 16 years old” (Davenport, Anne Azzi, Daria Nastasia, Amna Nawaz, and Courtney Norris. “Epstein Survivor Virginia Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir Exposes Abuse by Powerful Men.” PBS News Hour, 23 Oct. 2025). Her allegations against the American financier (and his co-conspirator, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell) put Giuffre on the global stage. She opened a discussion on sexual abuse and misogyny in the pre-#MeToo era. Giuffre’s co-memoirist, Amy Wallace, has asserted that writing Nobody’s Girl was an extension of Giuffre’s activism, saying that she wanted “to help other survivors of sexual abuse, not just Epstein and Maxwell survivors, but anyone who’s been coerced into sex against their will” (Davenport).