Epstein victim, who took her own life in April, completed her autobiography over a year ago, but relatives say it doesn’t reveal full story
Virginia Giuffre’s forthcoming memoir should be edited because it does not reflect the extent of the alleged abuse from her husband, her family has claimed.
Giuffre, the Jeffrey Epstein 𝓈ℯ𝓍 trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually assaulting her, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. The Duke has always denied the allegations against him.
In the weeks before her suicide, Giuffre reportedly told members of her family that she wanted to revise the book’s portrayal of her husband, who is framed as being the person who rescued her from Epstein’s abuse.
“She did not want the book published in its current state,” Sky Roberts, her brother, told the New York Times.
“It’s not that we’re not in support of the book, we’re not in support of certain parts of the book. The full story needs to be told.”
The book, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, will be published in the US on Oct 21.
Giuffre’s family said that parts of memoir contradicted statements about her own marriage, which she previously claimed was one of domestic abuse.
In a statement to People magazine earlier this year, she said she was “unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently”.
She added: “After my husband’s latest physical assault, I can no longer stay silent.”
In March, she was hospitalised following a car crash in which she shared a picture from a hospital bed, showing her body covered in bruises.
After the accident, she reportedly emailed Amy Wallace, a journalist and collaborator on the book, and her publicist, urging the it to be published “regardless” of the circumstances.
“[it is my] heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time. 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.”
Book expected to pile pressure on Prince Andrew
The mother-of-three was one of the most high-profile victims of Epstein, the paedophile financier who died by suicide in prison in 2019.
The contents of the memoir, which are expected to detail Giuffre’s experience at the hands of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, will place further pressure on Prince Andrew.
The Duke made a multimillion-pound out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022.
The claims – of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual abuse and rape – have never been tested in a court of law, and he has vehemently and repeatedly denied them.
The Duke has stepped back from public duty as a result of the fallout from his friendship with Epstein and a photo which appears to show him meeting Giuffre.
‘Make sure we do her a little bit of justice’
On Friday, the US Justice Department released transcripts of an interview it carried out with Maxwell in prison.
Testifying from prison, Maxwell claimed that the photograph of the Duke and Giuffre together in London was falsified.
In the interview, Maxwell also claimed the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, tried to “put the moves” on Epstein.
She said: “I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey, if I’m being honest, and I thought the whole thing was annoying and I was p—-d off.
“I think Sarah is the one that pushed that. And they met and hung out, I want to say two or three times that had nothing to do with me.
“I wasn’t communicating with Andrew, I wasn’t in touch with him. And I know this because I was annoyed and I felt left out, and I felt disrespected and I was like, this is weird. I couldn’t even imagine Epstein and Andrew together.”
Giuffre’s family told the New York Times that they want her memoir to reach readers but not without the context about her marriage.
“As a family, we want the sensitive contents of that book, which is in her words, to fly,” Danny Wilson, her brother, said.
“We’re not trying to curb-stomp this book,” he added. “I want to make sure that we do her a little bit of justice.”
Robert Giuffre, Virginia’s husband, did not immediately respond to the New York Times’s request for comment. He had previously been granted a restraining order against her and custody of their 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren.
