Before her death in April 2025, Virginia Roberts Giuffre made sure her story would not die with her. Now, months after the 41-year-old survivor and activist took her own life, her long-awaited memoir — Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice — is set to be published by Penguin Random House India. It is being described as her “final declaration of truth,” a book that confronts power, privilege, and the cost of survival with unflinching honesty.

For over a decade, Virginia Giuffre was the face of one of the most disturbing scandals of modern times — a young woman who stood up to the powerful figures behind Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking network. Her photograph with Prince Andrew became one of the most infamous images of the 21st century, a symbol of exploitation and complicity at the highest levels.

But Nobody’s Girl promises to take readers far beyond the headlines. It tells the story of a little girl from Florida who never had the chance to be safe — a child sexually abused long before Epstein ever entered her life, and a teenager later trapped in his and Ghislaine Maxwell’s web of manipulation and violence.

In the book, written in her own words over the years before her death, Giuffre recounts the fear, confusion, and courage that defined her journey — from the first moments of grooming to her daring escape at nineteen. She describes, with both raw pain and rare strength, how she rebuilt her life piece by piece, and how she turned her trauma into purpose: fighting for justice not only for herself but for thousands of others who could not yet speak.

“Victims are made, not born,” she writes. “And once you understand that, you’ll never again ask why someone stays.”

This is not just a memoir of survival — it is a chronicle of defiance. Giuffre’s voice, once dismissed and doubted, became the catalyst for a global reckoning. Her testimony helped send Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, to prison. Her public fight against Prince Andrew shattered the illusion that accountability stops at status.

Nobody’s Girl is, above all, a book about reclaiming power. It’s about a woman who was betrayed by systems meant to protect her — and who, even in death, refuses to let those systems forget her.

Penguin Random House describes the memoir as “an astonishing affirmation of Giuffre’s unshakable will — first, to claw her way out of victimhood, and then to shine light on wrongdoing and fight for a safer, fairer world.”

DAUGHTER. PRISONER. SURVIVOR. WARRIOR. NOBODY’S GIRL.

These words, emblazoned on the cover, are more than a tagline — they are her epitaph.

In an era still grappling with abuse, accountability, and the silencing of survivors, Nobody’s Girl stands as Virginia Giuffre’s final act of defiance. Her voice, fierce and flawed and profoundly human, will echo long after the headlines fade — a reminder that truth, once spoken, cannot be buried.