LONDON, Oct 16 — A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, accuses the Duke of York of being “entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” according to excerpts in The Guardian.
The book, Nobody’s Girl, is set to be published next week, nearly six months after took her own life in April at the age of 41.
In the memoir, she details three occasions where she alleges Prince Andrew had sex with her, including at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home in March 2001 when she was 17.
Describing what happened after a night out at Tramp nightclub, she writes of the Prince: “He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
The book’s publication is a fresh source of embarrassment for Prince Andrew, who has always vehemently denied the allegations and reached a multi-million-pound financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022 to end a civil case she had brought against him.
“I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened,” Andrew said of the allegations in his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview. “I can tell you categorically I don’t remember meeting her at all.”
Giuffre’s memoir also provides her account of the now-infamous photograph showing her with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell.
“I remember the prince putting his arm around my waist as Maxwell grinned beside me. Epstein snapped the photo,” she writes.
In the book, she describes Epstein as a “master manipulator” who preyed on vulnerable young women, and she dismisses claims from those in his circle who said they were unaware of his activities.
“Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch,” she writes.
She also reveals the personal toll of her time with Epstein, writing that she was taking up to eight Xanax pills a day to cope.
She explains that many of the girls he targeted were poor, homeless, or had histories of childhood abuse, making them susceptible to his pretence of care.
Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
Maxwell is currently serving a prison sentence for sex trafficking.
