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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child abuse, sexual violence, child sexual abuse, rape, sexual harassment, mental illness, gender discrimination, and physical abuse.
Collaborator’s Note Summary: “A Note from Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Collaborator”
Amy Wallace describes her experience working on Nobody’s Girl with Virginia Giuffre. She has collaborated on many memoirs with many different writers over the years, but working with Giuffre was exceptional in many ways. The stories Giuffre shared with Wallace for the memoir were intense and devastating and included a cast of rich and powerful individuals. Both women knew that writing the book would incite upset but did not shy away from the project.
Giuffre was also determined to represent her story and herself as accurately as possible. She stressed the importance of showing her humanity on the page. Despite the risks, she was determined to speak out—not only against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who sexually enslaved her for almost three years, but against her father, who also abused her.
Wallace describes the difficulties that she and Giuffre faced while working on the book. Giuffre got sick multiple times, and her husband, Robbie Giuffre, subjected her to more violence. Wallace remarks that people who experience abuse as children are statistically more likely to experience it as adults as well. The domestic violence that Giuffre experienced in 2024 also coincided with Giuffre losing custody of her three children.
