Virginia Giuffre revealed in a posthumous memoir that she endured nightmares of “greedy, heaving men on top of me”, years after she said she was sexually exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and his affiliates.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, had alleged that she was the victim of sex trafficking and that Prince Andrew was among Epstein’s circle of connections.
In a new memoir to be released next week, she wrote that she was still haunted by trauma almost 20 years later, while in hospital with Covid, according to excerpts obtained by The Sun.
“All feelings of sadness and shame overtook me. I was sick of the nightmares; greedy, heaving men on top of me, men whose faces I recognized and would never forget. I felt hollowed out,” she wrote. Giuffre did not identify the men in the extracts published.
Her book, Nobody’s Girl, describes alleged abuse after she said she was recruited by pedophile financier Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, as a massage therapist.
The memoir calls Epstein a “master manipulator” and describes three instances in which she alleges Prince Andrew had sex with her. Without any admission of liability, the prince reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022 and has always vehemently denied wrongdoing.
Giuffre wrote that she struggled with thoughts of suicide years later and had attempted to take her own life twice before, according to The Sun. She described concerns over the “stress and worry” she felt she brought into the lives of her husband and children.
Giuffre died at the age of 41, six months after completing the book, which is co-written with author Amy Wallace. During the memoir she also claimed that Epstein had made threats against her family, and that she lost a child after becoming pregnant by one of her alleged abusers.
“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein was alleged to have told her, according to an extract published by The Guardian. “You must never tell a soul what goes on in this house.”
In that extract, she recounted the day Maxwell took her to meet Prince Andrew who, she said, correctly guessed that she was 17 at the time.
It describes Giuffre going to the Tramp nightclub with Andrew and adds: “He was sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely.”
She said that Maxwell told her, “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.” She claimed she later ran Andrew a bath before they had sex.
The book states: “He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”
In an interview with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis in November 2019, Andrew denied claims that he slept with Giuffre, saying: “I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
Andrew claimed in his interview that he had a medical condition in 2001, after suffering an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when he was shot at, that meant he did not sweat.
Giuffre met British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
She said Maxwell offered her an interview to train as a massage therapist and claimed the socialite gave her instructions on how to massage Epstein at his home in Palm Beach while he was naked. Giuffre claimed that the job interview soon turned into years of abuse.
Maxwell was later found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls for Epstein to abuse. Epstein was found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges at a facility in New York in 2019.
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice is released on Tuesday.
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