Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files
There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe.
Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser.
“I was supposed to be the invisible ghostwriter, which I was perfectly happy to be and that’s what I signed up to do,” Wallace says.
But Giuffre’s April 2025 suicide at her farm near Perth catapulted her impending memoir, and its San-Francisco-based author, into a spotlight that was already burning brightly.
“Because I stepped forward at the publisher’s request and promoted the book, people got in touch with me to tell me how the book had affected them,” Wallace says.
“If I could show Virginia one email of all the emails that I have gotten, it is actually from a woman in Australia.”
The email came from a 70-year-old woman who said Giuffre’s book helped her understand the impact of having been abused by a neighbour as a five-year-old – a fact she had never disclosed to anyone.
Men too spoke of how the book helped them make sense of past horrors, Wallace says. There were 40,087 victims of sexual assault recorded in Australia in 2024 – an increase of 10% on the previous year, according to the Bureau of Statistics.
“It is moving, and I know that is the reason that Virginia wrote the book. She was very clear about it – she wanted to help other people who had any kind of trauma.”
“I just know that [the emails] would have made her so proud.”
This Sunday, at the All About Women 2026 festival in Sydney, Wallace and British journalist Emily Maitlis will examine the institutions that turned a blind eye to Epstein’s dark world. In 2019, Maitlis famously put then prince Andrew, the duke of York, on the record about his relationship with Epstein, and questioned him during a now-notorious BBC Newsnight interview about Giuffre’sallegations that he had sex with her while she was still a teenager.
Once regarded as the late Queen’s favourite son and a decorated war veteran, Mountbatten-Windsor’s reputation went into freefall after the interview and his name became synonymous with the Epstein scandal.
He stepped down from royal duties and in 2022 reportedly paid a £12m out-of-court settlement to Giuffre over the allegations of sexual abuse, which he has consistently denied.
By late 2025, his brother, King Charles, removed Mountbatten-Windsor’s royal titles and he was ordered to leave the Royal Lodge.
