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Virginia Giuffre says she feared she might “die a sex slave” at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle, her posthumous memoir reveals. <\/p>\n
The BBC has obtained a full copy of Nobody’s Girl, written by the prominent accuser of convicted sex offender Epstein, ahead of its publication on Tuesday – almost six months after she took her own life.<\/p>\n
In the memoir, Ms Giuffre also says she had sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions, including once with Epstein and approximately eight other young women.<\/p>\n
Prince Andrew, who reached a financial settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, has always denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The memoir, which the BBC bought from a book store in central London days before its official release, paints a picture of a web of rich and powerful people abusing young women.<\/p>\n
At the centre of the abuse was Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n
Ms Giuffre says that even decades later, she remembers how much she feared them both.<\/p>\n
Much of the book makes for extremely harrowing reading, as Ms Giuffre details the sadistic abuse that Epstein put her through.<\/p>\n
She says Epstein subjected her to sadomasochistic sex which caused her “so much pain that I prayed I would black out”.<\/p>\n
A Buckingham Palace source told BBC News they accept there could be “more days of pain ahead” as a result of the publication of the book, which puts Prince Andrew under further scrutiny. <\/p>\n
The King’s engagements this week include a visit to the Vatican, where he will pray alongside the Pope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Friday, Prince Andrew announced that he was voluntarily deciding not to use his titles including the Duke of York<\/a>, an honour received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n He is also giving up membership of the Order of the Garter – the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.<\/p>\n In his statement, he said: “I vigorously deny the accusations against me.”<\/p>\n While Andrew, who remains a prince as son of a monarch, will no longer be using his titles, a small number of MPs are calling for them to be officially removed from him. They include Rachel Maskell, Independent MP for York, and Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster. <\/p>\n But Henry Zeffman, BBC chief political correspondent, said: “I think the government is extremely unlikely to take the lead on this. <\/p>\n “It may well be that developments require further action against Andrew but if they do, I think it would be the monarchy making that judgment call and the government following suit, rather than the other way around.”<\/p>\n The new book, written by Ms Giuffre and ghostwriter Amy Wallace, puts the prince under even more scrutiny.<\/p>\n In the memoir, Ms Giuffre says she first met Prince Andrew in March 2001.<\/p>\n She writes that Maxwell woke her up and told her it was going to be a “special day” and that “just like Cinderella” she was going to meet a “handsome prince”.<\/p>\n She says that when she met Prince Andrew later that day, Maxwell told him to guess her age.<\/p>\n The prince, who was then 41, “guessed correctly: seventeen”, Ms Giuffre said. “My daughters are just a little younger than you,” she recalls him saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That night, she says she attended London’s Tramp nightclub with Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell, where she says the prince “sweated profusely”.<\/p>\n In a car on the way back to Maxwell’s house afterwards, Ms Giuffre writes that Maxwell told her: “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”<\/p>\n She wrote that back at the house they had sex.<\/p>\n “He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” she says.<\/p>\n “The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: ‘You did well. The prince had fun.'”<\/p>\n Ms Giuffre writes that she “didn’t feel so great”, adding: “Soon, Epstein would give me $15,000 for servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’ – a lot of money.”<\/p>\n Ms Giuffre says she had sex for a second time with the prince around a month later at Epstein’s townhouse in New York.<\/p>\n She says the third occasion was on Epstein’s island as part of what Ms Giuffre called “an orgy”.<\/p>\n She writes that she said in a sworn declaration in 2015 that she was “around 18”.<\/p>\n “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together,” she says. <\/p>\n “The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English. <\/p>\n “Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.”<\/p>\n Later in the book, Ms Giuffre touches on her 2022 out-of-court settlement <\/a>with Prince Andrew after she brought a civil case against him.<\/p>\n “I agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been,” she writes.<\/p>\n While Ms Giuffre’s alleged interactions with Prince Andrew have been widely reported by the British press, the book’s content is wider in scope – littered with sinister details of Epstein’s sex trafficking.<\/p>\n The girls were required to look “childlike”, Ms Giuffre says, and her childhood eating disorder was “only encouraged” under Epstein’s roof.<\/p>\n “In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” she writes.<\/p>\n “I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.<\/p>\n “I believed that I might die a sex slave.”<\/p>\n Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a person under the age of 18. He died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n On Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said it was “actively” looking into media reports that Prince Andrew tried to obtain personal information about Ms Giuffre<\/a> through his police protection officer (PPO).<\/p>\n According to the Mail on Sunday, the prince asked the officer to investigate Ms Giuffre just before the newspaper published a photo in February 2011 of her first meeting with the prince.<\/p>\n The newspaper alleged that he gave the officer her date of birth and confidential social security number.<\/p>\n Dai Davies, the former head of royal protection at Scotland Yard, told BBC One’s Breakfast the issue was “scandalous” adding: “It needs to be put to bed one way or another.”<\/p>\n “If – and I say if – there’s any evidence of criminality either under the data protection act or malfeasance in public office, then that has to be carefully considered, and then a report sent to the Crown Prosecution [Service],” he said.<\/p>\n “And clearly the government themselves then would have to act, in terms of his status still as a prince.”<\/p>\n A royal source told the BBC there are currently no plans for the removal of the prince title that Andrew was born with.<\/p>\n “The headlines are taking a lot of oxygen out of the royal room,” they added, referring to press about Prince Andrew diverting attention away from King Charles’s engagements.<\/p>\n In 2019, the prince repeatedly told BBC Newsnight that he did not remember meeting Ms Giuffre “at all”<\/a> and that they “never had any sort of sexual contact.”<\/p>\n Buckingham Palace has not commented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n