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“She wanted all her suffering to achieve something,” Virginia Giuffre’s colleague Amy Wallace writes in the beginning of her explosive posthumous memoirs. Nobody’s girl.
whether prince andrew give up one’s titles among increased pressure on top of that sexual abuse allegation One of the goals was, no one would ever know.
But who knows, from Reading The 400-page diary-style book, That’s Giuffre, who died Committing suicide in April this year at the age of 41, she was determined to tell her story of how power, corruption and alleged sexual abuse combined to haunt victims like her after years of alleged abuse.
his painful and sometimes obvious Andrew is mentioned in the testimony 88 times, as well as detailed claims about how she was abused at the hands of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Since this book is published on Tuesday. Independent A look at the biggest revelations.
Giuffre ‘met Andrew for the first time in London’
At the age of 17, Giuffre wrote that she was staying in London at the home of Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell when Maxwell told her that Prince Andrew would be dining with them. “Like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince,” she wrote.
After spending the day shopping for outfits with Maxwell, Andrew, who was 41 at the time, arrived at the townhouse and the group, including Epstein, chatted at the entrance, before Giuffre asked Epstein to take a photo of the pair, she wrote.
The group went out to dinner, she wrote, and then went to a nightclub called Tramp, where she described Andrew as a “bumbling dancer.”
When they went back to Maxwell’s house, Maxwell told her, “You do for him what you do for Jeffrey”, she wrote. At home, Giuffre wrote that she had sex with Andrew, who later thanked her “in his clipped British accent”.
Reflecting in the book, Giuffre wrote: “He was quite friendly, but still entitled – as if he believed it was his birthright to have sex with me.”
The next day, Maxwell told him, “You did well, the Prince had fun”, Giuffre wrote. Later, Epstein gave her $15,000 to “do a service for a tabloid guy named ‘Randy Andy,'” she said.
Giuffre ‘had sex with Andrew for the second time in New York’
About a month later, Giuffre wrote, she met Andrew at Epstein’s New York home. Writing about the alleged meeting, he re-raised allegations that Andrew had been gifted one of his puppets by Maxwell and had allegedly placed his hand on the chest of another accuser, Johanna Sjöberg.
Ms Giuffre wrote that she saw “symbolism” in the use of puppetry, 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 the second time.
Giuffre ‘participates in an orgy with Andrew along with about eight other young girls’
Giuffre wrote that she did not know exactly when she had sex with Andrew for the third time, but she knew it was on Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St. James, also known as Little St. Jeff by people who knew Epstein.
He repeated allegations he made in a sworn declaration in 2015 in which he said all the girls appeared to be “under the age of 18”.
She wrote: “Epstein, Andy, and about eight other young girls, and I had sex together. All the other girls appeared to be under the age of 18 and did not actually speak English.
“Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they were the easiest girls to get along with.”
The death of the Princess of Wales horrified him
Giuffre wrote that the conspiracy theories surrounding Diana’s death after allegedly having sex with Andrew for the first time had an impact on her, as she was “surrounded by people who were much more influential than I was”.
“I didn’t want to have sex with the prince, I said, but I felt I had to,” she wrote, adding that she believed there was no way to free herself from the grip of Epstein and Maxwell.
She said that her then-boyfriend Tony Figueroa was “scared that I was alone in a foreign country with so many powerful people; he said he understood why I felt powerless”.
He wrote: “Less than four years earlier, Lady Diana had died in a car accident, leading to some speculation (never proven) that the royal family was somehow involved.”
She added, “Tony and I agreed that, especially when I was abroad, I needed to keep Epstein and Maxwell happy.”
She was shocked to see Andrew with Epstein after sentencing
After Epstein was released from prison for pimping a minor for prostitution, Giuffre wrote that she was shocked to see a photo of her with Andrew in New York’s Central Park in 2011.
“Seeing this new photo of Prince Andrew with Epstein makes ‘Randy Andy’ look even more arrogant to me,” he wrote.
A week later, the first article ran on Giuffre’s story of being trafficked by Epstein. mail on sundayWith a photo of her and Andrew. She received $160,000 for the use of the photo, she wrote, and agreed not to speak to anyone else for three months.
Reflecting on the agreement with the publication, he wrote: “I have been portrayed as someone who makes things for profit, when in fact I naively thought it was normal to be paid to tell your story. I was never paid for an interview again.”
Andrew’s denial on BBC Newsnight raises hopes of legal case against royal
As Giuffre wrote that she was considering filing a lawsuit against Andrew in 2019, she said she noticed that the royal had done an interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, at which she said she had “no recollection” of meeting Giuffre.
He also denied having sex with her in March 2001 and said that he was at Pizza Express with his daughter Beatrice that day.
Giuffre wrote: “As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel. Its contents will help us build a stronger case against the Prince.”
He added: “We weren’t ready to sue yet, but this interview gave us a lot more to work with than before.”
Law suit alleging Andrew ‘raped and assaulted me’ launched – but with initial difficulties
In August 2021, Giuffre’s team filed a legal suit alleging, she wrote, that “Prince Andrew raped and assaulted me when I was a minor, causing serious and permanent harm to me”.
He wrote that when the action was initiated, Andrew could not be served with the papers because he had “fled to Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hid behind its well-guarded gates”.
However, after one American judge accused Andrew of playing hide and seek The case moved forward, he wrote, and Giuffre’s legal team got a “break” when a witness came forward to say she had seen Giuffre and Andrew together at London’s Tramp nightclub.
But in her memoir, Giuffre claimed that Andrew’s team tried to hire internet trolls to target her online.
“After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team went so far as to try to employ internet trolls to harass me – the Duke of York also owes me a meaningful apology,” he wrote.
‘I don’t regret it’ – Giuffre on 14 years of telling her story to the world
Concluding her story in the final chapter of the book, Giuffre wrote that she had made her allegations against Epstein and Andrew public in the hope of preventing the suffering of others.
She wrote: “I don’t regret it, but the constant telling and retelling has been extremely painful and tiring. With this book, I want to free myself from my past.”
She said the money she received from her out-of-court settlement with Andrew, reported to be more than $12 million, was spent on developing her Reclaim (Soar) Foundation to combat human trafficking.
“I’m keen to spread some of the Crown’s money to do some good,” he wrote.
She dedicated her book “to my survivor sisters and anyone who has suffered sexual abuse.”