Virginia Giuffre’s anticipated posthumous memoir, ‘Nobody’s Girl’, hits shelves tomorrow, just months after her death at 41.
The mum of three, an outspoken survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, tragically took her own life in April after the ‘toll of abuse became unbearable’.
American-born Giuffre lived in Australia for years and became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in the prolonged downfall of disgraced paedophile financier Epstein.
She came forward publicly after the initial investigation ended in an 18-month Florida jail term for Epstein, who made a secret deal and was released in 2009.
Ahead of her memoir’s release tomorrow, Metro has outlined her life, family and time in the spotlight.
How did Virginia Giuffre die?
After a long battle with depression and trauma, Giuffre was found dead in her Australian home on April 25, 2025.
Her family said in a statement that she was a ‘fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse’ but that the ‘toll of abuse… became unbearable’.
Giuffre’s long-time publicist Dini von Mueffling said her client was ‘one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever had the honour to know’.
‘Deeply loving, wise, and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,’ von Mueffling said. ‘It was the privilege of a lifetime to represent her.’
Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Giuffre, said in a statement: ‘Her courage pushed me to fight harder, and her strength was awe-inspiring.
‘The world has lost an amazing human being today. Rest in peace, my sweet angel.’
Where was Virginia Giuffre born?
Ms Giuffre was born Virginia Louise Roberts in Sacramento, California, on August 9, to parents Sky and Lynn Roberts.
The family relocated to Loxahatchee in Palm Beach County, Florida, when she was four, where her father was a maintenance manager at Mar-a-Lago.
She said she was sexually abused as a child and spent some time as a runaway.
As a teenager, Ms Giuffre got a job at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as a locker room attendant.
She said she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and a British socialite, while working there.
‘They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I’d had a really hard time in my life up until then — I’d been a runaway, I’d been sexually abused, physically abused,’ she said in a 2019 interview with The Miami Herald.
Was Virginia Giuffre married?
Giuffre married Australian Robert Giuffre in 2002, not long after the pair met in Thailand.
Virginia was attending a massage training school at the time, while still working for Epstein.
She said she cut all ties with the financier after she and Giuffre got together.
The pair, who reportedly became estranged at the beginning of this year, lived in both the US and Australia together, with the latter being their base in recent years.
Giuffre had three children with her husband: two sons, Christian and a daughter, Emily, all said to be teenagers.
Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew
Giuffre sued the Duke of York in 2021, accusing the estranged royal of sexually assaulting her on three occasions when she was 17.
Andrew has repeatedly denied the claims, but in 2022 agreed to pay her an undisclosed sum in an out-of-court settlement.
The settlement included a ‘substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights’.
At the time, Andrew released a statement praising the ‘bravery of Ms Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others’.
He also vowed to ‘demonstrate his regret for his association’ with Epstein by supporting the ‘fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims’.
What did Giuffre do after the lawsuit?
Ms Giuffre was living on her farm, in Neergabby, about an hour’s drive north of Perth, in Western Australia, before she died.
She previously said she walked her dog, Juno, each day to unwind. She said it was one of her many coping methods to try to recover from the abuse she had experienced in her youth.
In a statement read at Maxwell’s trial in 2022, Giuffre said she is haunted by nightmares about her past. Nightmares, she added, she feared would never stop happening.
‘In those dreams, I relive the awful things you and others did to me and the things you forced me to do,’ she said, addressing Maxwell.
She acknowledged things could be tough for her children due to the history and high profile nature of her life, once saying: ‘They have friends that say, “Oh my god, is this your mum?’”
‘It’s a lot for them to carry. But they’re teenagers. They’re at that prime era in life where I think it’s important to teach them about sex trafficking.’
Giuffre also ran the charity Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, or Soar.
Soar is ‘dedicated to providing a safe and empowering space for survivors of sex trafficking to reclaim their stories and stand up for themselves and each other’, according to its website.
‘I do this for victims everywhere,’ Giuffe said about her charity work.
‘I am no longer the young and vulnerable girl who could be bullied. I am now a survivor, and nobody can ever take that away from me.’.
What’s in Virginia Giuffre’s memoir?
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In 2023, one year after settling her lawsuit with Andrew, Ms Giuffre signed a multi-million dollar deal to write her memoir, in which she was expected to offer insight into the years of sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Epstein.
The book will be released tomorrow, and details the alleged encounter she had with Andrew while she was 17 after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
In the book, she revealed how she lost a baby just four days after flying back from an alleged ‘orgy’ with Prince Andrew and eight other girls.
She wrote: ‘I don’t know exactly when I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the location: Little Saint Jeff’s. I also know it was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy.’
Publishers Alfred A Knopf said the book contains ‘intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, fellow sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew, about whom she speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022’.
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