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+category: "Source"
+tags:
+  - Source
+  - Book
+  - Memoir
+  - VirginiaGiuffre
+  - JeffreyEpstein
+  - GhislaineMaxwell
+  - PrinceAndrew
+alias:
+  - "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice"
+  - Nobody's Girl (memoir)
+summary: "Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir, written with Amy Wallace and published posthumously by Knopf on October 21, 2025, which preceded the removal of Prince Andrew's titles and won the 2026 British Book of the Year."
+start: 2025-10-21
+location: "New York, New York"
+relations:
+  - type: participant_in
+    with: "[[Virginia Giuffre]]"
+    reverse: true
+    role: "author"
+    start: 2025-10-21
+    fn: 1
+  - type: participant_in
+    with: "[[Amy Wallace]]"
+    reverse: true
+    role: "co-author"
+    start: 2025-10-21
+    fn: 1
+created: 2026-09-25
+updated: 2026-09-25
+---
+
+Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is the memoir of [[Virginia Giuffre]], written with the journalist [[Amy Wallace]] and published by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], an imprint of [[Penguin Random House]], on October 21, 2025, six months after Giuffre's death by suicide in [[Western Australia]] on April 25, 2025. Giuffre had asked that it be published regardless of her circumstances. The book recounts her recruitment by [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] at [[Mar-a-Lago]], the years in which she said [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and Maxwell trafficked her, and her litigation against Epstein, Maxwell, and [[Prince Andrew]], later Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.[^1][^2]
+
+### Contents
+
+The book reproduces the March 2001 photograph of Andrew with his arm around the seventeen-year-old Giuffre, Maxwell standing behind them, and identifies Epstein as the person who took it. Andrew has denied her allegations; he settled her 2021 civil suit in February 2022 without admitting liability.[^1][^3]
+
+### Publication and Andrew
+
+The book's release followed Andrew's announcement on October 17, 2025 that he would stop using the title Duke of York. On October 30, 2025, nine days after publication, Buckingham Palace announced that [[Charles III|King Charles III]] had "initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew," effected by a Royal Warrant of that date and Letters Patent of November 3, 2025.[^3]
+
+### Reception
+
+The memoir reached the top of bestseller lists. At the British Book Awards, presented at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House hotel in London on May 11, 2026, it received the Overall Book of the Year award, and Giuffre shared the Freedom to Publish Award with the technology whistleblower [[Sarah Wynn-Williams]], author of Careless People, a memoir of her years at [[Facebook]].[^2]
+
+### Estate
+
+Giuffre died without a valid will, and revenue from the book forms part of an estate contested in the Supreme Court of Western Australia among two of her sons, her former carer, her former lawyer, and her estranged husband. In November 2025 the court appointed a Western Australian lawyer, [[Ian Torrington Blatchford]], as interim administrator; the appointment also allowed a defamation claim against the estate by [[Rina Oh]] to proceed.[^4][^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Adriana Gallardo and Leila Fadel, report on Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir *Nobody's Girl*, *NPR,* October 20, 2025 (updated October 23, 2025). https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/nx-s1-5514834/epstein-accuser-virginia-roberts-giuffre-nobodys-girl-memoir ; publisher's page, Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958/nobodys-girl-by-virginia-roberts-giuffre/
+[^2]: Sam Spratford, "British Book Awards Honor Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Sarah Wynn-Williams," *Publishers Weekly,* May 12, 2026. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/100385-british-books-awards-honor-giuffre-wynn-williams.html
+[^3]: House of Commons Library, "The removal of titles and honours," CBP-10370, 2025. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10370/ ; "Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title and honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments," *NBC News,* October 17, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/prince-andrew-give-duke-york-title-honors-jeffrey-epstein-developments-rcna238242
+[^4]: "Legal battle begins over Virginia Giuffre's multi-million-dollar estate," *ABC News (Australia),* November 28, 2025. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/virginia-giuffre-epstein-survivor-legal-battle-over-estate/106075194
+[^5]: "Court Rules Virginia Giuffre Died Without a Will, Appoints Administrator," *Newsweek,* November 26, 2025. https://www.newsweek.com/court-rules-virginia-giuffre-died-without-will-11110482