1 Nov 2025
Thailand was the turning point where “Nobody’s Girl” went from victim to warrior
Bangkok — “Nobody’s Girl” Virginia Roberts Giuffre found love, freedom and healing in Thailand. Although media coverage of her tell-all biography has been dominated by her contacts with the now defrocked prince Andrew and an Israeli former Prime Minister, it contains two heart-warming chapters narrating how she met her future husband in Chiang Mai and broke free from the shackles of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Yes, indeed, Thailand comes out very well in this best-selling book. She outlines in meticulous detail about how Epstein and his devilish co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell sent her to Chiang Mai to get trained in Thai massage and recruit an unnamed Thai girl to join his evil empire. Instead, she met a warm, sensitive Australian at a Muay Thai camp, got married in a traditional Buddhist ceremony at the famous Wat Doi Suthep and severed relations with Epstein with one phone call.
She also recalls fondly her trips to Koh Phang-ngan and an extension to Vientiane, Laos. Written with great care and concern, the two chapters are like a soothing balm between the first part which describes her years-long history of sexual abuse, starting with her own father, and the second part which discusses her exhausting pursuit of justice against the rich and powerful sexual predators who destroyed her life and her soul.
I read this book in one sitting.
This haunting, soul-searing story is not just about child trafficking, a young girl’s suffering and bravery. It is an indictment of the global power elites and their dysfunctional mental state. A line-up of royalty, political, corporate, government and professional leaders — some identified openly while others referred to only as “Billionaire Number One” and “Billionaire Number Two” — are exposed as closet sexual predators.
As Ms Giuffre points out, she was abused by a people whose public persona projects them as being great CEOs, scientists and statesmen, whose daily decisions have far-reaching impact on humanity, who turn up at global forums to share their “vision and thought-leadership”.
The graphic details of the sexual encounters and the sadistic pain they enjoy inflicting on their victims are just mind-numbing. Even more angering is the power they have to circumvent the law, protect their privileged status, silence whistleblowers and pull the strings from behind the scenes free of any accountability.
The book deserves to be studied and analysed in business management schools. If this is the kind of mental, sexual, physical and psychological damage they are willing to do to another human being, can these “visionary thought leaders” be trusted to address wider global problems such as poverty, environment, human rights. Are they in fact a part of the problem rather than a part of the solution?
In her introduction to the book, ghost-writer Amy Wallace describes why she collaborated on what turned out to be a painstaking, four-year project.
“She (Virginia Roberts Giuffre) wanted the world to know who she really was so that survivors of abuse who might read her words would feel less alone. She hoped that if she painted a real portrait of her suffering, it would inspire more people to fight to make the changes she believed were so desperately needed — prime among them, legislation to eliminate statute of limitations provisions for sexual abusers of children.”
Ms Giuffre died shortly before the book was published. She knew the end was near, and insisted in her last communications that its core message had to get through. In her own words:
“I’m sorry to say that for all that’s happened, more action is needed. Much more. Because some people still think Epstein was an anomaly, an outlier. And those people are wrong. While the sheer number of victims Epstein preyed upon may put him in a class by himself, he was no outlier. The way he viewed women and girls — as playthings to be used and discarded — is not uncommon among certain powerful men who believe they are above the law. And many of those men are still going about their daily lives, enjoying the benefits of their power.
“Each one of us can make positive change. I truly believe that. I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else. I yearn, too, for a world in which perpetrators face more shame than their victims do and where anyone who’s been trafficked can confront their abusers when they are ready, no matter how much time has passed.
“We don’t live in this world yet — I mean, seriously: Where are those videotapes the FBI confiscated from Epstein’s houses? And why haven’t they led to the prosecution of any more abusers? — but I believe we could someday. Imagining it is the first step. In my mind, I hold a picture of a girl reaching out for help and easily finding it. I picture a woman, too, who — having come to terms with her childhood pain — feels that it’s within her power to take action against those who hurt her. If this book moves us even an inch closer to a reality like that — if it helps just one person — I will have achieved my goal.”
Below are screenshots of excerpts from the book. Both Ms Wallace and Ms Giuffre focussed on the sexual abuse, but many far broader questions arise. They deserve to be studied if justice is to prevail and the world avoid falling into the clutches of criminals and gangsters.
TRAVEL & TOURISM: Human trafficking has been on the industry agenda for years but makes little progress. Within companies, too, sexual harassment is rampant. Ms Giuffre found love and comfort in Thailand, but if she had stuck around long enough, she would have discoverd that human trafficking, especially of minors, is a major problem right cross the Mekong countries.
LAW & ORDER: Most of the global lawbreakers are the rich and famous. Not only are they willing participants but also use their power and influence to thwart justice. Combatting them requires perseverance, money and the courage to stay the course. How can more whistleblowers be encouraged to come forward? If the law favours the lawbreakers, what future for the “rule of law?”
WOMEN LEADERS: Epstein and his abuser friends were all men. Their key collaborator was a woman. Where does this leave emerging generation of women leaders and their claim to be better than the men? If ethical, courageous women leaders can see the rot in their own ranks, what are they doing to stem it?
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: What useful purpose is served by sanctimonious global bodies such as the United Nations and all the other regional and subregional institutions? What value all those meetings, reports, resolutions, communiques, when the real power is vested in a handful of deep-pocketed oligarchs with the means to buy and manipulate politicians, judges, the media and law enforcement officers?
GLOBAL JEWRY: Finally, both Epstein and Maxwell are Jews. If they could inflict such pain and suffering upon these girls, can the Jewish plea for remembrance of the Holocaust have any credence or credibility?
This book shook me to the core. It reminded me very much of my mother, also a warrior who suffered from years of domestic violence. I applaud their strength and courage. I hope this article will support the various causes they so valiantly fight and die for.
