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(NewsNation) — Virginia Giuffre‘s posthumous 400-page memoir dropped Tuesday, detailing her longstanding allegations against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his companion Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as hints at other abusers.
Co-writer Amy Wallace joined NewsNation’s “Banfield” on Tuesday to discuss the memoir, titled “Nobody’s Girl,” which includes descriptions of physical abuse, depraved sex acts and claims that Epstein spoke about blackmailing various powerful people using tapes of them having sex with underage girls.
Wallace said she has tapes of her own, including private recordings in which those men were named.
She said the memoir describes a “predator’s playbook,” a step-by-step manual for how girls are groomed, trapped and destroyed.
Amy Wallace says she knows the ‘Epstein list’ names
Wallace spent four years writing “Nobody’s Girl” side-by-side with Giuffre, and she told “Banfield” something she’d never said publicly before: She still has the tapes — every recorded conversation she had with Giuffre, including the ones in which Giuffre named names.
“I know all the names … that are there, but every different scene, she had to make a decision about whether or not she was going to rename or name these people,” she said.
As to whether these names would ever be released, Wallace said the Department of Justice should be held accountable.
“Yes, I know who the names are. Virginia knows who the names are, but so does the FBI and so does the Department of Justice. That’s why there’s such a clamoring right now for the Epstein files to be released,” she said. “It’s not just Virginia who’s come forward. It’s many, many brave women who came forward and talked to investigators.”
‘Epstein list’ with feds for a decade: Amy Wallace
Wallace also told NewsNation that such a list does indeed exist.
“It exists in the FBI files. It exists in the Epstein files, as we now call them. She had named many names and depositions already that have been made public,” she said of Giuffre. “There are four different document dumps, and there are many, many names in those.”
The long-rumored Epstein ledger of rich, famous, powerful men who allegedly took part in his trafficking ring has been with the federal government for a long time, according to Wallace.
“They have the names, and they’ve had them for more than a decade,” she said.
While “aware someone could steal” her tapes, Wallace said they are currently “safe.”
“Nobody can find them, so don’t break into my house. No one will be able to find them,” she added.
Virginia Giuffre names alleged abusers
While Giuffre didn’t list every name, she left behind clues.
Giuffre named some abusers already identified in past legal filings — including Prince Andrew, who settled a lawsuit with her in 2022 — and hinted at others described only by their positions: a former U.S. senator, a governor, a psychology professor and even a “well-known prime minister” whom she accused of brutally assaulting her.
“I came to be trafficked to a multitude of powerful men … Among them were a gubernatorial candidate who was soon to win an election in a Western state and a former U.S. Senator,” Giuffre wrote.
“The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor whose research Epstein was helping to fund,” she wrote.
Giuffre mentioned a “heralded statesman” she was lent to in New York and Palm Beach, the oldest man to whom Epstein trafficked her.
She also described being forced to service a man she called “billionaire No. 1” and his pregnant wife, as well as “billionaire No. 2,” a 52-year-old man with “thinning brown hair.”
She wrote that Epstein wired his homes for audio and video, using the recordings as leverage over influential figures.
President Trump uninvolved: Virginia Giuffre
For years, President Donald Trump’s name has been mentioned in connection with Epstein, and his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, was the doorway to Giuffre’s nightmare, according to Wallace.
Many expected Giuffre to implicate him, but she did the opposite. Giuffre cleared Trump, writing that during her years of abuse, she never witnessed him involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.
“Virginia was in the Epstein-Maxwell orbit for about 24 months, a little longer, and so she only knows about that period. But in that period, she didn’t see Trump in any sort of compromising position,” Wallace said.
“She knew Donald Trump because she worked there. She was honored to work there,” she said.
Wallace added that Giuffre “felt very validated” when Trump campaigned on releasing the Epstein files before the presidential election.
Allegations against Prince Andrew
The memoir also expands on allegations made against Prince Andrew. Giuffre wrote that she was trafficked to the disgraced royal three times.
The third time, she alleged, involved Andrew, Epstein and nine women — all of whom “appeared under 18 and didn’t speak English.”
Days later, she wrote, she woke in a pool of blood. Epstein rushed her to a hospital, whispering to a medic about her care. Doctors told her she might never have children, though she later did.
One account in the memoir involves a man she described as a “well-known prime minister.”
“Epstein trafficked me to a man who raped me more savagely than anyone had before,” she wrote. “He repeatedly choked me until I lost consciousness.”
She wrote that she begged Epstein never to send her back, and he refused.