NEED TO KNOW
- Virginia Giuffre recounted meeting Prince Andrew for the first time in 2001 in an excerpt from the upcoming Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
- Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, wrote about how the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her to famous friends including, allegedly, the Duke of York
- She alleged that she had sex with the royal three times starting when she was just 17
New details are emerging about Virginia Giuffre’s alleged encounters with Prince Andrew.
In her posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, which was excerpted in The Times of London on Thursday, Oct. 16, Giuffre described the night in March 2001 that she met the Duke of York in Ghislaine Maxwell’s London townhouse when he was 41 and she was 17.
When Maxwell told Giuffre she would be meeting a royal, Giuffre wrote that she felt “like Cinderella” about to meet a “handsome prince.”
Shortly after Prince Andrew arrived, Maxwell had him play “a game” she liked guests to take part in, Giuffre claimed: guessing Giuffre’s age.
Prince Andrew “guessed correctly,” she alleged, before he made small talk by commenting on her age.
“My daughters [Eugenie and Beatrice] are just a little younger than you,” the royal allegedly said.
Later that night, after going out to dinner and dancing with Prince Andrew at the London hotspot Tramp, Giuffre claimed she and the royal had sex in Maxwell’s home, which he has denied.
Looking back on the first time she and Prince Andrew allegedly had sex, Giuffre 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.”
She wrote Epstein paid her $15,000 for “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy.’”
She had sex with him two more times, she alleged, including with financier Jeffrey Epstein and eight young girls on the 72-acre island Epstein owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year at 41, finished the book a year ago. She said she wanted it published even if she died.
A representative for Prince Andrew did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, though he has previously denied any wrongdoing on multiple occasions.
In 2022, the prince reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre, which included a statement in which he expressed regret for his association with Epstein, but contained no admission of liability or apology, per the BBC.
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Epstein, a convicted sex offender, died by suicide while he was jailed in New York City on child sex trafficking charges.
Convicted in 2021 of trafficking a minor and other counts, Maxwell, 63, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is out Oct. 21.
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