An excerpt from the forthcoming memoir from Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epsteinâs accusers, was released by CBS News Oct. 19.
The released portion of the memoir details a 2021 trip Giuffre took to the Louvre Museum as she prepared to testify against French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in a Paris court.
“For a while, everything went as I’d imagined. I lost myself in the larger-than-life bronze and marble sculptures, texting my husband photos of ‘The Four Captives,’ a quartet of soldiers in shackles, and of Hercules fighting an oversized snake,” the excerpt reads. “I climbed a flight of stairs, turned a corner, and froze. I know this room, screamed a voice inside my head. I’d been in this precise spot before â two decades ago, when I was just seventeen.”
Giuffre, born Virginia Roberts, was among the most outspoken of Epstein’s abuse accusers. She played a critical role in the investigations that eventually led to criminal charges against the financier and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
She also filed a sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew in 2021, alleging that she had been trafficked to the British royal family member by Epstein three times around 2001 when she was a teenager. Andrew settled the suit in 2022 and denied the allegations.
On Oct. 17, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Andrew will no longer use his royal titles after being stripped of his patronages and military associations in the midst of the lawsuit.
Giuffre died of suicide near her home in Neergabby, Australia, this year. “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” is set to be released Oct. 21.
Co-author says Maxwell shouldn’t be pardoned
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that accompanied the excerpt release, “Nobody’s Girl” co-author Amy Wallace stood behind Giuffre’s allegations. She added that Giuffre “knew” that names of people who participated in her abuse have not been made public.
“What she always said to me was, ‘I may not remember days, times, dates. But when you have a man raping you, his face six inches from your own, you remember that face,'” Wallace said.
Wallace described the abuse Giuffre alleged Epstein and Maxwell of having gone beyond sexual assault, calling it a “a modern ‘Handmaid’s Tale.'” Wallace said that the pair asked Giuffre to carry a child for them and sign away her parental rights. “Interestingly, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back for her,” Wallace said.
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Wallace stated that she does not believe that Maxwell should receive a pardon from President Donald Trump. “This woman participated in the sexual abuse, and she should absolutely not be pardoned.”
She added that Giuffre did not implicate Trump as a part of Epstein’s “ring” during the writing of the memoir. Trump told reporters in July that the staff Epstein “stole” from him worked in the spa and included Giuffre.
Family dismisses Giuffre death conspiracies
“CBS Sunday Morning” also interviewed Amanda and Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s sister-in-law and brother, who told the program that the loss of Giuffre’s custody rights in a legal battle with her husband may have led to her suicide.
“The worst thing that could happen to a mother: Her children, she was separated from her children. And that is something that she couldn’t bear,” Amanda said.
Amanda dismissed conspiracy theories that allege Giuffre did not take her own life. “I was with her in her final days. I mean, I was the one that found my sister when she had passed.”
Contributing: Karissa Waddick and Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY
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(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.)
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