Virginia Giuffre had feared that she might “die a s*x slave” at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle, the prominent accuser wrote in a posthumous memoir via CNN.
“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied,” Giuffre wrote of Epstein and his s*x-trafficking ring, according to the BBC, which obtained an advance copy of the book that will be published on Tuesday. “I believed that I might die a s*x slave.”
Six months following her death by s**cide in Australia, Giuffre’s memoir “Nobody’s Girl” features horrific details of the abuse she allegedly suffered as a teenager, and her years attempting to get justice for herself and her fellow victims.
The memoir is set to intensify a transatlantic scandal over the proximity of the rich and powerful to Epstein, which has claimed political scalps in Britain.
Its publication will heap fresh scrutiny on Prince Andrew, the disgraced British royal has been accused by Giuffre of s*xually assaulting her while she was a teenager. Andrew, who’s King Charles’ brother, vehemently denies the accusations against him.
Andrew faced further public outrage over his relationship with Epstein and announced last week that he had relinquished the use of his royal titles and would no longer be known as the Duke of York, saying: “I have decided, as I always have, to put duty to my family and country first.” He will, however, retain the title of “prince,” since he is the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
While Buckingham Palace would have hoped Andrew’s decision could mark the end of a scandal that has plagued the royal family for years, the latest revelations in Giuffre’s memoir will likely deepen the prince’s disgrace.
Among those is Giuffre’s claim that Andrew’s “team” tried to hire online “trolls” to harangue her around the time she brought a civil case against the prince in New York, according to Britain’s PA Media news agency. Giuffre alleged that, having been trafficked by Epstein, she was forced to have s*x with Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17.
Reports suggest that Despite claiming never to have met her, Andrew paid millions to settle the civil case in 2022. Writing of that settlement, Giuffre said: “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me – the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well.”
The allegation that Andrew tried to hire trolls comes after the Mail on Sunday, a British paper, reported that Andrew in 2011 asked a police officer assigned to him as a bodyguard to dig up dirt on Giuffre. London’s Metropolitan Police said it was “actively looking into” the report.
Another damaging report found that Andrew had kept up his friendship with Epstein two months after he insisted he had broken it off. In a disastrous 2019 BBC interview, in which Andrew’s attempt to clear his name backfired spectacularly, the prince insisted he had broken off his friendship with Epstein during a walk in New York’s Central Park in December 2010.
