In recently unveiled excerpts from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Giuffre warns that unless society stops treating Jeffrey Epstein as an isolated anomaly, more survivors will come forward in the future.
Champions of women’s rights interpret Giuffre’s narrative as a powerful indictment of a system that continues to enable powerful men to exploit and victimize women with impunity.
Previewed ahead of the memoir’s full publication next week, selected passages from Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice expose the deliberate tactics Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used to manipulate and dominate Giuffre.
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