LDN. The key claims Virginia Giuffre makes about Prince Andrew in posthumous memoir.LDN
Virginia Giuffre, who died in April, recounts harrowing details of being manipulated by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as well as alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew thought ‘sex with me was his birthright’
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Six months after Virginia Giuffre’s death, her posthumous memoir is published today – detailing alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew.
In Nobody’s Girl, Ms Giuffre writes about three alleged sexual encounters with the prince – who gave up his titles last week after mounting pressure over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and his links to an alleged Chinese spy.
Andrew has always vigorously denied all the accusations against him.
Ms Giuffre also recounts harrowing details of being manipulated by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, told her co-writer Amy Wallace weeks before her death that it was her “heartfelt wish” for the book to be published even in the event of her death.
Here are the key claims Ms Giuffre makes in the memoir.
‘I believed I might die a sex slave’
At the beginning of the memoir, Ms Giuffre writes about her battle to escape the control of Epstein and Maxwell.
“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.
Giuffre and Andrew’s alleged first meeting
Epstein took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was jailed for recruiting young girls for Epstein.
Giuffre and Andrew’s alleged first meeting
Ms Giuffre wrote that on the day she allegedly met Andrew in 2001, Maxwell told her “just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince”.
She added that when she met Andrew, he correctly guessed she was 17 and told her: “My daughters are just a little younger than you.”
Ms Giuffre wrote in her memoir about visiting a nightclub with Andrew: “He was sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely.”
That claim was strongly denied by Andrew, who said in a 2019 Newsnight interview that he suffered from a condition which meant he was unable to sweat.
“Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour.”
Ms Giuffre added: “The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: ‘You did well. The prince had fun’.”
She described the prince as “friendly enough, but still entitled” adding: “As if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
She wrote Epstein paid her $15,000 for “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’”.
In the Newsnight interview, Andrew said he had “no recollection whatsoever” of meeting Ms Giuffre.
He said the alleged encounter in 2001 did not happen because he had spent the day with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, taking her to Pizza Express in Woking for a party.
Two other alleged sexual encounters
The memoir also describes two other alleged sexual encounters with the prince, including in New York a month later and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands when she was around 18.
The extract describes the latter as an “orgy” with Epstein and “approximately eight other young girls” who “appeared to be under the age of 18” who “didn’t really speak English”
‘My mum would never forgive me… if I didn’t pose for a picture’
Ms Giuffre was keen to take a photograph of the first time she allegedly met Andrew.
That image, showing him with his arm around Giuffre, has become infamous. Andrew later claimed the picture had been doctored.
Ms Giuffre said she remembered running for her “Kodak FunSaver” camera – adding that “my mum would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn’t pose for a picture”.
