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Virginia Giuffre’s anticipated posthumous memoir, ‘No one’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 have become an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure within the prolonged downfall of disgraced paedophile financier Epstein.

She got here forward publicly after the initial investigation led to 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 within the highlight.

How did Virginia Giuffre die?

After a protracted battle with depression and trauma, Giuffre was found dead in her Australian home on April 25, 2025.

Her family said in a press release that she was a ‘fierce warrior within 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 ‘probably the most extraordinary human beings I even have ever had the honour to know’.

‘Deeply loving, sensible, 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 press release: ‘Her courage pushed me to fight harder, and her strength was awe-inspiring.

‘The world has lost a tremendous 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 folks Sky and Lynn Roberts.

The family relocated to Loxahatchee in Palm Beach County, Florida, when she was 4, where her father was a maintenance manager at Mar-a-Lago.

She said she was sexually abused as a baby and spent a while as a runaway.

As a young person, 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 gave the impression of nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I’d had a very 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 on 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 firstly of this yr, lived in each the US and Australia together, with the latter being their base lately.

Giuffre had three children together 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’.

On the time, Andrew released a press release praising the ‘bravery of Ms Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others’.

He also vowed to ‘show 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, every day to unwind. She said it was one in every of her many coping methods to attempt to get well from the abuse she had experienced in her youth.

In a press release 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 stuff you and others did to me and the stuff you forced me to do,’ she said, addressing Maxwell.

She acknowledged things could possibly be tough for her children on account of the history and high profile nature of her life, once saying: ‘They’ve friends that say, “Oh my god, is that this your mum?’”

‘It’s rather a lot for them to hold. But they’re teenagers. They’re at that prime era in life where I feel it’s essential to show them about sex trafficking.’

Giuffre also ran the charity Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, or Soar.

Soar is ‘dedicated to providing a protected and empowering space for survivors of sex trafficking to reclaim their stories and get up for themselves and one another’, in keeping with its website.

‘I do that for victims all over the place,’ Giuffe said about her charity work.

‘I’m now not the young and vulnerable girl who could possibly be bullied. I’m now a survivor, and no person can ever take that away from me.’.

What’s in Virginia Giuffre’s memoir?

In 2023, one yr after settling her lawsuit with Andrew, Ms Giuffre signed a multi-million dollar deal to put in writing her memoir, wherein she was expected to supply insight into the years of sexual abuse she suffered by the hands of Epstein.

The book can be released tomorrow, and details the alleged encounter she had with Andrew while she was 17 after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

Within the book, she revealed how she lost a baby just 4 days after flying back from an alleged ‘orgy’ with Prince Andrew and eight other girls.

She wrote: ‘I don’t know exactly once I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the placement: Little Saint Jeff’s. I also understand it was not only the 2 of us this time; it was an orgy.’

Publishers Alfred A Knopf said the book accommodates ‘intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking recent 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 primary time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022’.

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