Six months after Virginia Giuffre’s death, her long-awaited memoir Nobody’s Girl has been released, offering new insight into her allegations against Prince Andrew and her experiences with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the book, completed shortly before her death in April, Giuffre reflects on her time in Epstein’s network and details what she described as three alleged sexual encounters with the Duke of York.
Prince Andrew has consistently denied all allegations and has said he has “no recollection whatsoever” of meeting Giuffre.
Giuffre’s co-writer, journalist Amy Wallace, said the 40-year-old had made it her “heartfelt wish” that the memoir be published even if she died before its release.
Below are four of the key claims Giuffre makes about Prince Andrew in the memoir.
1. Giuffre and Andrew’s alleged first meeting
Giuffre wrote that she first met Prince Andrew in 2001 after being told by Ghislaine Maxwell that she was “going to meet a handsome prince.”
According to her account, Andrew correctly guessed her age at the time, 17, and remarked: “My daughters are just a little younger than you.”
Giuffre described accompanying him to a nightclub that evening, saying he “sweated profusely” on the dance floor. She claimed that later that night, they had sex, writing: “He seemed in a rush to have intercourse. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent.”
She alleged that Epstein paid her $15,000 afterward, according to the London Evening Standard, and that Maxwell later told her: “You did well. The prince had fun.”
Prince Andrew, in his 2019 Newsnight interview, denied the allegations and said he could not have been with Giuffre that night, as he was at Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter Princess Beatrice. He also claimed a medical condition at the time made him unable to sweat.
2. “My mum would never forgive me… if I didn’t pose for a picture”
Giuffre said she was eager to take a photograph to commemorate meeting the prince, a picture that would later become one of the most discussed images in the case.
She recalled rushing to grab her disposable camera, writing: “My mum would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn’t pose for a picture," Sky News details.
The image, which shows Andrew with his arm around Giuffre’s waist, has been widely circulated. The Duke has since claimed the photograph was doctored.
3. Central Park photo spurred Giuffre to go public
Giuffre wrote that she decided to speak publicly about her experiences after seeing a 2010 photograph of Epstein and Andrew walking together in New York’s Central Park, two years after Epstein’s conviction for sex offences in Florida. “It seemed that being a sex offender had not eroded Epstein’s social cachet one bit,” she wrote.
She said the image, along with news of Epstein’s continued connections, convinced her to go on the record. That decision led to an interview with journalist Sharon Churcher, whose 2011 Mail on Sunday article first hinted at Giuffre’s claims that she had been trafficked to “royalty.”
4. Prince Andrew’s “team” allegedly tried to hire “internet trolls”
Giuffre also claimed that after she filed a civil sexual assault lawsuit against the prince in 2021, people working on his behalf attempted to discredit her online. “Prince Andrew’s team had even gone as far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me,” she wrote, via The Guardian.
Giuffre said she viewed the settlement reached in early 2022 (which saw the Duke reportedly pay millions of dollars) as “the next best thing to a confession.” She added: “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long, the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well."
Giuffre’s wish to “do some good” with the settlement
While the memoir does not confirm the amount Giuffre received, she referenced reports suggesting the late Queen Elizabeth II helped fund the payment.
“I look forward to disseminating some of the Crown’s money to do some good,” she wrote, explaining that she had begun formalising her Soar Foundation, an organisation dedicated to combating human trafficking and supporting survivors.
Buckingham Palace has not commented on the memoir. Officials have previously said they do not represent Prince Andrew, who remains a non-working royal.