'Virginia Giuffre haș succeeded over these men a thousand times over'
Amy Wallace, the co-author of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, tells The News Agents why she believes Giuffre would be “very moved” but “very angry” by the recent release of new documents about his associates and victims.
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In brief…
- Amy Wallace tells Emily Maitlis she wishes Virginia Giuffre was still alive to see the unsealing of Epstein Files documents, but also to witness the perceived lack of action against those named by the US Department of Justice.
- Wallace believes it has been intentional to redact many of the names of the men who perpetrated violence against women, while leaving the victims details in the documents made public.
- She says that Giuffre’s goal in publishing her autobiography was to help relieve the shame of other sexual assault victims, and believes that goal has been achieved.
What’s the story?
Virigina Giuffre, the most high-profile Jeffrey Epstein accuser, never lived to see the release of the Epstein Files, having died by suicide in April 2025.
But Amy Wallace, who co-wrote Giuffre's memoir Nobody's Girl, has said she would be "very moved" by the details emerging from the recent release of more documents from the files, but also "very angry".
"I wish she was here to be angry on her own behalf at the way the Department of Justice has handled the release of these files, the redactions of the men's names, the failed – in many cases – redactions of the survivors' names and pictures, faces, addresses," Wallace tells Emily Maitlis.
An investigation into Giuffre's death is ongoing, but her death is not considered "suspicious" – although her father has said he believes someone "got to her".
US Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche has said that despite the huge number of documents, photos, videos and more that have been unsealed, he has said it "doesn't allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody."
Other victims have spoken publicly about finding their names within the recently unsealed Epstein Files, when many perpetrators have had their name redacted entirely.
Wallace says some of these women believe their names remaining in the files is intentional.
She says that lives of victims are in "danger" due to the recent release, and has no faith that they will see justice due to the partial release of documents, and heavy redactions which she sees as protecting the men involved.
"At the very least, these women are being put through hell one more time," Wallace says.
"These often rich – always powerful – men have more access to justice than the often poor, not powerful at all, victims.
"The only way the survivor-sisters have had any kind of justice is that they've banded together and not shut up. They've continued to be loud about this, but I don't have any faith from what I'm seeing here that justice will be done."
Since Nobody's Girl was published in October 2025, Wallace says she has been contacted by "thousands" of people with similar stories, and says this was Giuffre’s hope – that she could help victims of sexual abuse everywhere by sharing her story.
"Virginia's goal in writing this book, her primary goal, was to help all victims of sexual abuse, anyone who's been in a situation where they were coerced into sexual activity against their will – men and women, children and adults. She has succeeded in that 1000 times over," she says.
"She wanted to try and alleviate shame and help people understand their own pain, and she succeeded in that."
Now, she wants to see justice brought against the men who perpetrated sexual crimes against Giuffre and an unknown number of other young women and girls, but says the drip-feed of documents from the Epstein Files makes this a near impossible goal.
"We're all left to put all these puzzle pieces together somehow and have them make sense, even though a lot are missing," Wallace adds.
"As several people have already pointed out, they can't find certain things about themselves that they know they gave the FBI, so they know those things are missing."
She calls on the men named, some of whom have spoken of their shame, and apologised for, their association with Jeffrey Epstein to testify in Congress, as Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to do.
"If you are so ashamed, come forward and do the right thing – but I'm not seeing the pressure be put in that way," she says.
"If you're as horrified as we are by what's happened here, step up."