Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, lays bare the shocking details of her two-year ordeal at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, including a disturbing demand from Epstein that she described as “a bridge too far.”
Published six months after Giuffre’s death, the memoir recounts the abuse she says she suffered while being trafficked to powerful figures, as well as Epstein’s chilling alleged plan for her to bear a child for him and Maxwell.
Epstein’s “twisted” wish for Giuffre
In one of the book’s most unsettling revelations, Giuffre wrote that Epstein once allegedly told her he wanted her to carry a child for him and Maxwell. “Jenna, I want you to have our baby,” he allegedly told her.
Giuffre said the proposal came with a demand that she would have to “sign over to Epstein and Maxwell all legal rights to the child,” describing the request as “a bridge too far.”
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She recalled that Epstein “fantasised about improving the human race by fathering children who carried his ‘superior’ genes” and envisioned using his New Mexico estate (known as the Zorro Ranch) as “a literal breeding ground to propagate babies," according to the London Evening Standard.
A life of fear and control
Throughout Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre details the physical and psychological abuse she says she endured while trapped in Epstein’s network. “In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” she wrote. “I was habitually used and humiliated, and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied. I believed that I might die a sex slave.”
She said Epstein began using whips, restraints, and other instruments of torture, leaving her in such pain that she “prayed to black out.”
Giuffre also claimed that Epstein trafficked her to a politician she described as a “former minister,” who allegedly “repeatedly choked me until I lost consciousness.”
Grooming and manipulation
The memoir also describes how Epstein and Maxwell allegedly groomed and manipulated Giuffre, coercing her to recruit other girls and positioning Maxwell as a “den mother” to Epstein’s young victims.
Maxwell, Giuffre wrote, liked to call the girls her “children,” and often told her: “You’d make a great mother.”
Giuffre said the pair used both affection and fear to control her, with Epstein once warning: “I know where your brother goes to school... and I own the Palm Beach Police Department.”
Surveillance, blackmail, and high-profile connections
Giuffre also alleged that Epstein sought to record powerful men in compromising situations for leverage, installing cameras throughout his properties and boasting about his collection of videotapes. “It’s good to have things on people,” she quoted him as saying.
The toll of trauma and her pursuit of justice
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April 2024, reportedly told her co-writer Amy Wallace that it was her “heartfelt wish” for the book to be published, even if she did not live to see it.
Her account also revisits the civil case against Prince Andrew, which ended in a settlement in 2022. Giuffre claimed in the book that the prince’s team had tried to “hire internet trolls to hassle” her and questioned the sincerity of his apology.
“After casting doubt on my credibility for so long, the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology,” she wrote. “We were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgment of what I’d been through.”
Prince Andrew has always denied Giuffre's claims and said he did not recall ever meeting her.
Giuffre said she intended to use part of the settlement to fund her foundation, Soar, dedicated to supporting victims of human trafficking.
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