All the major revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir as Prince Andrew mentioned 88 times in shocking new book Nobody’s Girl
“She wanted all her pain to accomplish something,” Virginia Giuffre’s collaborator Amy Wallace writes at the beginning of her memoirs, written after her bombshell death: Nobody’s Daughter.
No one will know whether Prince Andrew’s relinquishment of his titles amid mounting pressure over accusations of sexual harassment was one of the aims.
But when you read the 400-page diary-style book, it becomes clear that Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year at the age of 41, was determined to tell her story of how power, corruption and allegations of sexual abuse came together to leave victims like herself scarred after years of alleged abuse.
Her harrowing and sometimes graphic testimony mentions Andrew 88 times while also making detailed allegations about how he suffered abuse at the hands of impoverished financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Since the book was published on Tuesday, Independent looks at the biggest revelations.
Giuffre ‘meets Andrew for the first time in London’
Giuffre, 17, wrote that she was staying at the London home of Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, and that Maxwell told her Prince Andrew would have dinner with them. “Just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince,” she wrote.
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After spending the day clothes shopping with Maxwell, Andrew, then 41, arrived at the townhouse and the group, including Epstein, chatted in the foyer before Giuffre asked Epstein to take a photo of the two, the group wrote.
He wrote that the group went out for dinner and then went to a nightclub called the Tramp; here he described Andrew as a “clumsy dancer”.
When they returned to Maxwell’s home, Maxwell wrote, he told her, “What you did for Jeffrey, you will do to him.” Giuffre wrote that she had sex with Andrew at home, and Andrew later thanked her in a “shortened British accent.”
“He was friendly enough, but he still had a point; it was as if he believed it was his birthright to have sex with me,” Giuffre wrote of the book.
Giuffre wrote that the next day Maxwell told her “good job, the prince had fun.” He later said that Epstein gave him $15,000 “for servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’.”
Giuffre ‘had sex with Andrew for the second time in New York’
Giuffre wrote that she met Andrew about a month later at Epstein’s home in New York. While writing about the alleged meeting, she resurfaced allegations that Andrew was presented with a dummy of himself by Maxwell and allegedly placed his hand on the chest of another accuser, Johanna Sjoberg.
Ms. Giuffre wrote that she saw “symbolism” in the use of puppets, adding: “Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.”
She wrote that she was sent to the bedroom to have sex with Andrew for a second time.
Giuffre ‘attends sex party with Andrew along with about eight teenage girls’
Giuffre wrote that she didn’t know exactly when she had sex with Andrew for the third time, but she did know that it happened on Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little Saint James (also referred to as Little Saint Jeff’s by those who knew Epstein).
He repeated claims in a 2015 affidavit that all the girls appeared to be “under 18.”
He wrote: “Epstein, Andy and about eight teenage girls and I had sex together. The other girls all looked and appeared to be under 18 and didn’t really speak English.”
“Epstein laughed at their inability to really communicate and said they were the easiest girls to get along with.”
The death of the Princess of Wales left him frightened
Giuffre wrote that conspiracy theories about Diana’s death affected her after she allegedly had sex with Andrew for the first time because she was “surrounded by people with far more influence than I ever could.”
“I said I didn’t want to have sex with the prince, but I felt I had to,” she wrote, saying she believed there was no way to free herself from the clutches of Epstein and Maxwell.
She said her then-boyfriend, Tony Figueroa, “was afraid of me being alone in a foreign country with such powerful people; he understood why I felt powerless.”
He wrote: “Less than four years earlier Lady Diana had died in a car crash, leading to some conjecture (which has never been proven) that the royal family was somehow involved.”
He added: “Tony and I agreed that I needed to keep Epstein and Maxwell happy, especially when I was abroad.”
Seeing Andrew with Epstein after conviction shocked her
After Epstein was released from prison for procuring a minor for prostitution, Giuffre wrote in 2011 that she was shocked to see a photo of Andrew with her in New York’s Central Park.
“Seeing this new photo of Prince Andrew next to Epstein makes ‘Randy Andy’ seem even more arrogant to me,” he wrote.
A week later, the first article about Giuffre’s story of being trafficked by Epstein appeared in the newspaper. mail on sundaywith a picture of her and Andrew. He wrote that he received $160,000 for the use of the image and agreed not to speak to anyone for three months.
Of the deal with the publication, he wrote: “I was portrayed as someone making things up for profit, when in fact I naively thought it was typical to get paid to tell your story. I was never paid for an interview again.”
Andrew’s denial on BBC Newsnight gives hope of legal action against the royal
When Giuffre wrote in 2019 that she was considering suing Andrew, she said she saw the royal do a sit-down interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, in which Maitlis said she had “no recollection” of ever meeting Giuffre.
He also denied having sex with her in March 2001, saying he was at Pizza Express with his daughter Beatrice on the day in question.
Giuffre wrote: “As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, it was like an injection of jet fuel for my legal team. Its contents… would help us build a solid case against the prince.”
He continued: “We weren’t quite ready to litigate yet, but this interview gave us so much more than we had before.”
Legal case filed for Andrew ‘raping and battering me’ – but there were initial difficulties
In August 2021, Giuffre’s team filed a lawsuit alleging that “Prince Andrew raped and assaulted me when I was a minor, causing me serious and permanent damage.”
When the action was initiated, he wrote that the papers could not be served on Andrew because “Queen Elizabeth had fled to Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hid behind its well-guarded gates.”
But the case moved forward, he wrote, after a US judge accused Andrew of playing “hide and seek” and Giuffre’s legal team took a “break” after a witness said she saw Giuffre and Andrew together at the Tramp nightclub in London.
But in her memoir, Giuffre claimed Andrew’s team tried to recruit internet trolls to target her online.
“After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team went so far as to recruit internet trolls to harass me – the Duke of York also owes me a meaningful apology,” he wrote.
‘I have no regrets’ – Giuffre has been telling her story to the world for 14 years
Completing her story in the last chapter of the book, Giuffre wrote that she went public with her allegations about Epstein and Andrew in order to prevent others from suffering.
He wrote: “I have no regrets, but the constant telling and retelling has been extremely painful and tiring. With this book I am trying to free myself from my past.”
He said the money from his out-of-court settlement with Andrew, reported to be more than $12 million, was spent on developing the Reclaim (Soar) foundation to fight human trafficking.
“I look forward to giving away some of the Crown’s money to do good,” he wrote.
She dedicated her book “to my Sister Survivors and all those who have been sexually abused.”
