Raw pain of her story is hard to read

VIRGINIA Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, is not an easy read - nor should it be.

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

It is a harrowing, often deeply uncomfortable account of a young woman's stolen innocence and the depravity of the powerful figures, as well as her own family, who preyed upon her.

Having reported on the Epstein scandal for more than 15 years, I thought I'd heard it all. I'd sat through testimony, read every court filing, and spoken to countless victims.

But nothing prepares you for the raw pain that bleeds through Nobody's Girl.

Giuffre's voice, often tempered in life by lawyers, PR handlers and palace spin, finally rings clear and unfiltered in death. The picture she paints is grim.

A teenager plucked from vulnerability, groomed and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell, passed between men whose money and status made them untouchable.