“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” writes Virginia Giuffre in her posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, released today. Key allegations had already entered the public domain over the last few days, and they make for harrowing reading. Among them: “Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright.” The memoir does more than catalogue a lifetime of alleged abuse—beginning at just age 6—it reflects the devastating toll of years spent fighting for justice and enduring public doubt and vilification. Giuffre, who took her own life in April of this year, had spent decades being treated not as a survivor, but as a problem to be managed or erased. Three weeks before her suicide, she wrote to Amy Wallace, her book’s ghostwriter, to say: “It is my heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time.”
