The Epstein Files: The Truth They Tried to Bury
Amy Wallace
Co-writer of the posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre:
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Wednesday, November 19th, from 3-4pm ET, on Zoom.
You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve never heard the whole truth.
Before Virginia Roberts Giuffre took her own life in April 2025, she entrusted journalist Amy Wallace with the story she had never been able to tell publicly in full — not the sound bites or redacted documents, her definitive account: the calculated grooming and psychological coercion; the praying on vulnerable children; the powerful network of those who were complicit; and the unimaginable strength and personal cost behind her years-long fight for justice.
Virginia’s story is a call to action — a stark indictment of the systems that protected predators over victims and a reminder that the conditions that enabled her abuse, and countless others, still exist.
Amy Wallace joined The Common Good for an unflinching conversation about the truths Virginia insisted be brought into the light, and the still-unfinished work of holding the powerful to account.
This was a conversation meant to be shared — a vital and deeply important discussion that continues to resonate.
“Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . . . But it is also a book about how a young woman becomes a hero. . . . A deft [and] smart book. . . . A clear-eyed and necessary account. . . . Important [and] courageous.” —Emma Brockes, The Guardian
We encourage attendees to purchase a copy of Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, available wherever books are sold, including:
About Our Speaker
Amy Wallace has collaborated on three books. Most recently, she worked with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her autobiography Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Knopf, 2025). In 2021, Simon & Schuster published Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company, by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Random House, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, was a New York Times bestseller.
Wallace splits her time between books and magazines. Her magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – “Hollywood’s Information Man” (Los Angeles, 2001) and “Walking Time Bomb” (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award.
She has also Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston. She spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row; next she went to the Los Angeles Times. Since then, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (“Prototype”) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. She spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992, for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake. Later, she became the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage.