Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir exposes abuse by powerful men
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | A new book out this week tells the story of the late Virginia Roberts Joufrey, one of the many victims of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:09.6 | Joufrey took her own life earlier this year. Her posthumous memoir explores her resilience while also revealing new details about the abuse she suffered at the hands of powerful figures, as well as newly surfaced allegations |
| 0:21.6 | of mistreatment by her husband. Amman of Oz has that story and a warning. This report includes |
| 0:27.1 | accounts of sexual abuse and suicide. Most of the world came to know Virginia Roberts Joufrey in 2011, |
| 0:34.3 | when she began speaking out about the abuse she endured at the hands of some of the world's |
| 0:38.5 | most powerful men. In court filings, Joufrey described being sexually abused and trafficked |
| 0:44.0 | by Jeffrey Epstein when she was as young as 16 years old. She accused Epstein's co-conspirator |
| 0:50.0 | Gillian Maxwell of luring her into that world from Mar-a-Lago, where she worked as a locker |
| 0:54.8 | room attendant at the spa. Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, but died |
| 1:00.6 | by suicide in his jail cell in August that same year while awaiting trial. Joufrey spoke after |
| 1:06.5 | his death, continuing to demand justice. I want to start by saying, it's not how Jeffrey died, but it's how he lived. |
| 1:13.6 | And we need to get to the bottom of everybody who was involved at that, starting with |
| 1:20.6 | Gieland Maxwell and going along the lines there. I was recruited at a very young age from |
| 1:26.6 | Mar-Lago and entrapped in a world that I didn't understand, |
| 1:31.3 | and I've been fighting that very world to this day, and I won't stop fighting. |
| 1:35.3 | I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice. |
| 1:39.3 | Jufre led the way for many more women to come forward about their own abuse by Epstein and those around him. |
| 1:45.9 | In April of this year, Joufrey died by suicide. In Australia, where she lived for many years with her |
| 1:51.4 | husband and three children. She was just 41 years old. Joufrey's story is told now in a new posthumous |
| 1:57.7 | memoir titled Nobody's Girl, a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice, |
| 2:03.4 | a collaboration with journalist Amy Wallace, and she joins me now. |
| 2:07.2 | So you spent four years working closely with Virginia on this book. |
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