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Why it’s important to believe sex abuse victims. Takeaways from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir

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Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre detailed years of abuse in posthumous memoir.

Details revealed in the recently released “Nobody’s Girl,” a posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, resounded around the world. The book quickly reached bestseller status and is being cited in news stories about the decision of Britain’s King Charles to strip his brother Andrew, an Epstein pal and alleged accomplice, of the titles prince and duke of York. 

Giuffre, who was one of the more prominent of the girls and young women abused by Epstein, died in April by suicide. Her memoir details how Epstein and his then-partner Ghislaine Maxwell inducted her into a ring of sex traffickers when she was a 16-year-old employee at Mar-A-Lago. Epstein committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is now serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offenses.

Giuffre’s book also explores her account of child sexual abuse at the hands of her father as well as the mental, emotional and physical toll of years of exploitation by wealthy and powerful men, among whom Giuffre famously included former Prince Andrew.

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