Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

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 w