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The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, who survived years of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, divulges a host of new details, including revelations linked to the Epstein Files.

Nobody’s Girl, published Tuesday, is Giuffre’s harrowing, and often graphic testimony, of how she was sex trafficked to scores of rich and powerful men, in a rarefied world that brought her in contact with Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, billionaires, academics and powerful politicians.

The greatest revelations concerned the disgraced British royal Prince Andrew, who reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022 and has continued to vehemently denied wrongdoing. The Duke of York stepped back from public life five years ago in light of the accusations, and issued a new statement this week saying he would no longer use his title or honors.

Giuffre’s decision to speak out about her ordeal helped unravel Epstein’s sex abuse scheme. The disgraced financier died by suicide in July 2019 while in prison awaiting federal trial. His accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 on charges related to her role in the scheme to abuse minor girls.

Giuffre, 41, died by suicide in April. “She wanted the world to know who she really was so that survivors of abuse who might read her words would feel less alone,” Amy Wallace, Giuffre’s collaborator on the memoir, wrote in the introduction.

open image in gallery Virginia Roberts Giuffre divulges new details related to the Epstein Files in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, published Tuesday ( AP )

The Client List

In the new book, Giuffre suggested that Epstein could have blackmailed powerful friends and associates by videotaping them with underage girls in his various homes. He had a “huge library of videotapes” and a control room in his Manhattan townhouse where he monitored camera feeds that were set up in his properties, Giuffre wrote.

“He’d always suggested to me that those videotapes he so me