Warning: This article contains discussion of sexual assault and suicide which some readers may find distressing
An excerpt from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir has described her alleged first encounter with Prince Andrew.
Giuffre died by suicide at her home in Australia in April this year at the age of 41, but not before finishing her book Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice.
She said it was her 'heartfelt wish' for the book to still be published if she died, and it contains her claims about the first time she met Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Andrew.
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In an excerpt published in The Guardian, Giuffre claimed that she got a job as a babysitter for rich children after meeting Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and that Maxwell invited her to become a masseuse for Epstein, but when she arrived at his house, he was naked.
She wrote that Epstein showed her a photo of her brother and told her: "We know where your brother goes to school."
Giuffre described how Epstein and Maxwell started 'lending me out to their friends', and detailed her alleged first meeting with Prince Andrew in 2001, claiming that they met on 10 March of that year.
She wrote that Maxwell got the royal to guess how old Giuffre was, and that he correctly guessed she was 17 before telling her 'my daughters are just a little younger than you'.
Giuffre wrote that Epstein, who would later be convicted of sex offences against minors, then said 'we will have to trade her in soon'.
She wrote that she wanted to get a picture of her meeting Prince Andrew to show her mum and got a camera, and that Epstein took the infamous photo which depicts her standing with Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
Afterwards, she claimed they went to the nightclub Tramp, that the royal 'sweated profusely' on the dancefloor, and that on the way back, Maxwell told her 'you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey'.
Once they returned, Giuffre alleged that Epstein and Maxwell turned in for the night and left her alone with Prince Andrew in an encounter she called 'disturbing'.
She wrote: "In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved. He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.
"I drew him a hot bath. We disrobed and got in the tub, but didn’t stay there long because the prince was eager to get to the bed. He was particularly attentive to my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches.
"That was a first for me, and it tickled. I was nervous he would want me to do the same to him. But I needn’t have worried. He seemed in a rush to have intercourse.
"Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour."
She claimed that the next morning, Maxwell told her she 'did well' and Epstein paid her $15,000, and alleged that she had two other encounters with Andrew, one 'around a month later' in Epstein's New York home, and then again on Epstein's infamous island.
She wrote: "Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together.
"The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with."
Prince Andrew has denied the allegations against him, and he and Giuffre reached an out-of-court settlement in 2022 in which he admitted no liability and continued to deny the claims that that he'd met her, had sex with her, or that Epstein had trafficked her.
The LADbible Group has contacted Buckingham Palace and Prince Andrew's representatives for comment.
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice will be published on 21 October.
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Topics: Crime, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, Royal Family, Books
Joe Harker