Join us for a conversation with
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.
At sixteen, Virginia Giuffre was forced to serve as a sex slave to rich and influential men by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Abused and silenced for years, she bravely decided to fight back, exposing one of the most predatory and exploitative networks of modern times only to find that many of the wealthy and powerful would never be held accountable and so many other victims would continue to be silenced and shamed.
Before she took her own life in April 2025, Giuffre spent four years working with journalist Amy Wallace to write Nobody’s Girl — the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir. As her ghostwriter and collaborator, Wallace helped give lasting voice to Giuffre’s story - A story of a girl forced to endure unimaginable cruelty, who escaped from captivity, to expose the abuse of those who believed they were untouchable. “When I was a sex slave, I had no say. I will never have “no say” again”, said Giuffre.
Justice has far from prevailed. Even as Ghislaine Maxwell now serves her sentence under privileged conditions — reportedly receiving special treatment, including a service dog — Virginia’s story is a reminder that the fight for all the women who were exploited by the wealthy and powerful is far from over, and cannot be allowed to fade from view.
Join The Common Good with Amy Wallace for a powerful conversation confronting the atrocities and moral failures of a system that still protects predators instead of victims. And why the pursuit of justice for Virginia Giuffre and the many other survivors must continue.
“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.