Virginia Giuffre’s long-awaited memoir, Nobody’s Girl, has been released six months after her death by suicide, revealing new and disturbing claims about her years of abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and fresh details about her alleged encounters with Prince Andrew.
Giuffre’s co-writer, Amy Wallace, opens the 400-page book by saying that the 41-year-old wanted “all her suffering to have accomplished something.” The book is both a personal account of survival and a detailed record of how power and privilege allegedly protected sexual exploitation for years.
Prince Andrew is mentioned 88 times in the book, with Giuffre revisiting the allegations that forced the royal to step back from public life.
Giuffre recalls first meeting with Prince Andrew in London
Giuffre writes that she was 17 when she first met Prince Andrew at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London townhouse. Maxwell, she said, told her that the Duke of York would be joining them for dinner, something Giuffre compared to “meeting a handsome prince, just like Cinderella.”
After a day of shopping with Maxwell, Giuffre says Andrew arrived at the house, where she posed for a photo with him at Epstein’s request. The group later went out to dinner and then to the Tramp nightclub, where she described Andrew as a “bumbling dancer.”
When they returned to Maxwell’s home, Giuffre says Maxwell instructed her to “do for him what you do for Jeffrey.” She wrote that she then had sex with Andrew, who thanked her “in his clipped British accent.”
“He was friendly enough, but still entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” Giuffre reflected.
She added that the next day, Maxwell told her, “You did well, the prince had fun,” and that Epstein later paid her $15,000 for what she described as “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy.’”
A month later, Giuffre wrote, she met Andrew again at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. She recalled a puppet resembling the Duke being used in the room (the same detail mentioned by fellow accuser Johanna Sjoberg) and said that Andrew again had sex with her. “Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings,” Giuffre wrote.
Giuffre alleges ‘orgy’ on Epstein’s private island
Giuffre said she could not pinpoint the date of her third alleged encounter with Andrew, but wrote that it took place on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little Saint James.
She repeated claims from a sworn 2015 statement that “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls” had sex together, adding that the other girls “appeared to be under the age of 18” and “didn’t really speak English.”
According to Giuffre, Epstein “laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.”
Fear and power in Epstein’s world
Giuffre wrote that she felt trapped in Epstein and Maxwell’s orbit, especially after witnessing how powerful their connections were. She referenced the 1997 death of Princess Diana, saying conspiracy theories about the royal family’s involvement made her fearful.
“I hadn’t wanted to have sex with the prince,” she wrote. “But I felt I had to. I believed there was no way to free myself from Epstein and Maxwell’s grip.” Her then-boyfriend, Tony Figueroa, warned her of the dangers of being “alone in a foreign country with people so powerful.”
Seeing Andrew with Epstein again ‘shocked’ Giuffre
Years later, after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution, Giuffre said she was “shocked” to see a 2011 photo of Prince Andrew walking with him in New York’s Central Park. “Seeing this new photo of Prince Andrew at Epstein’s side made ‘Randy Andy’ seem even more arrogant to me,” she wrote.
That same year, Giuffre’s story was first published in the Mail on Sunday, alongside the now-famous photo of her with Andrew. She said she received $160,000 for the image rights and a short-term exclusivity agreement, but was later criticized for “profiting” from her story.
“I naively thought that being paid for telling your story was typical,” she wrote. “I’ve never been paid for an interview again.”
The Newsnight interview that fueled her legal case
Giuffre said that Andrew’s 2019 BBC Newsnight interview (in which he denied any memory of meeting her and claimed he was at a Pizza Express with his daughter that night) was a turning point. “As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel,” she wrote.
Her team filed a lawsuit in August 2021, accusing the Duke of York of “raping and battering me when I was a minor.” Giuffre wrote that Andrew initially “hid behind Balmoral’s gates” to avoid being served legal papers, but the case proceeded after a U.S. judge intervened.
Giuffre also alleged that Andrew’s team tried to hire internet trolls to harass her online. “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long, the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology,” she wrote.
Giuffre’s final words: ‘I don’t regret it’
In her final chapter, Giuffre said she did not regret speaking out, though it came at immense personal cost. “The constant telling and retelling has been extremely painful and exhausting. With this book, I seek to free myself from my past.”
She said she intended to use money from her reported $12 million settlement with Andrew to fund her anti-trafficking foundation, Speak Out Act Reclaim (Soar). “I look forward to disseminating some of the Crown’s money to do some good,” she wrote.
The memoir closes with a dedication: “To my Survivor Sisters, and to anyone who has suffered sexual abuse.”