Four family members of the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre are objecting to Knopf’s plan to publish a memoir from the Jeffrey Epstein accuser, the New York Times reports.
Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex traffickers Epstein and his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, wrote a memoir in collaboration with Amy Wallace before Giuffre’s death by suicide in April. On Sunday, Knopf announced that it would publish the memoir, titled Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, in the fall.
The Times spoke with Sky Roberts and Danny Wilson, Giuffre’s brothers, and Amanda Roberts and Lanette Wilson, her sisters-in-law. They said that Giuffre’s memoir portrayed her husband, Robert Giuffre, positively, although Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed that her spouse physically assaulted her.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre did not write about the abuse in her memoir, her family members said, because she was concerned for the safety of herself and her children. They said that she wanted to change the book before her death, which came a month after she was injured in a serious car crash in Australia.
The family members said they approached Knopf about revising the book but were rebuffed. Knopf deputy publisher Todd Doughty told the Times that Virginia Roberts Giuffre never asked the press to revise the book.
“As a family, we want the sensitive contents of that book, which is in her words, to fly,” Danny Wilson said. “We’re not trying to curb-stomp this book. I want to make sure that we do her a little bit of justice.”
Nobody’s Girl is slated for publication on October 21.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
