The book reveals allegations of harrowing abuse including that she believed she would ‘die a sex slave’
A memoir by Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, details allegations of harrowing abuse at the hands of powerful men.
Giuffre wrote Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting For Justice, before she died by suicide in Western Australia in April aged 41.
The book, which is due to be published on Tuesday, has already placed Prince Andrew under fresh scrutiny and is likely to cause the Royal Family further humiliation.
Its publication comes a day before King Charles begins a state visit to the Holy See, during which he will become the first British monarch to pray at a public service with the Pope since the Reformation.
Here The i Paper takes a look at the key claims revealed by early excerpts of the book.
‘Perfect victim’ for Epstein
Giuffre’s memoir contains distressing details of childhood abuse and how it later made her the “perfect victim” for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
She explains how her troubled childhood allowed her to fall into a life on the streets before she was picked up by Ron Eppinger, a sex trafficker who ran a fake modelling agency.
“I was a defeated, hopeless child,” she wrote.
“Soon after Eppinger began trafficking me to his friends, I knew how it felt to be a puppy picked from a litter just hoping its new owner wasn’t the whipping kind. I was merely trying to survive,” she wrote, according to a copy seen by the Telegraph.
After being caught up in an FBI raid, Giuffre was returned to her family. Her father, who worked at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, got her a job at the Palm Beach resort.
It’s there that she is spotted by Ghislaine Maxwell and begins working for Epstein.
Giuffre uses the backdrop of her childhood to explain to the reader why she stayed working for Epstein for two years.
“How can you complain about being abused, some have asked, when you could so easily have stayed away? But that stance discounts what many of us had been through before we encountered Epstein, as well as how good he was at spotting girls whose wounds made them vulnerable. Several of us had been molested or raped as children; many of us were poor or even homeless,” she wrote.
“We were girls who no one cared about, and Epstein pretended to care.”
‘Believed I would die a sex slave’
Giuffre says Epstein subjected her to horrific sadistic abuse which caused her “so much pain that I prayed I would black out,” according to a copy of the book obtained by the BBC.
“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” she writes.
“I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.
“I believed that I might die a sex slave.”
She says she and other girls who worked for the pair were required to look “childlike” and an eating disorder she suffered was “encouraged”.
Prince Andrew believed sex was his ‘birthright’
Giuffre said that she was introduced to Andrew in March 2001 while staying at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house near London’s Hyde Park.
She said in her memoir that Andrew acted as if sex with her was his “birthright”.
The extract, published by The Guardian, states: “Maxwell woke me up that morning by announcing in a sing-songy voice: ‘Get out of bed, sleepyhead!’ It was going to be a special day, she said. Just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince!”
The memoir continues that Maxwell then took her shopping for the occasion.
The extract states: “I put on the jeans and top, which left a strip of my stomach exposed. Maxwell wasn’t thrilled, but like most teenage girls then, I idolised Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, and the third outfit was something I imagined the two of them might wear.”
In the memoir, Giuffre writes that when she met Andrew, he correctly guessed her age of 17 years.
“’My daughters are just a little younger than you,’ he told me, explaining his accuracy,” the extract says.
The former duke, in a statement about relinquishing his title at the weekend, repeated that the claims against him were untrue.
“As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” he said.
She said Epstein paid her $15,000 for “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’”.
Giuffre also described how Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview was like an “injection of jet fuel” for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of “subpoenaing” his former wife Sarah, and daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, and drawing them into the legal case, The Telegraph reported.
Other encounters with Andrew
The memoir also details two other occasions with Prince Andrew.
The second encounter took around a month after the first, she wrote, at Epstein’s townhouse in New York.
She said another of their victims, Johanna Sjoberg, was also there, and Maxwell got both girls to pose with a “joke gift” – a puppet that looked like Andrew.
“The symbolism was impossible to ignore. Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings,” she wrote.
The third occasion was at a 72-acre island Epstein owned in the US Virgin Islands called Little Saint James, which she says Epstein liked to call “Little Saint Jeff’s”.
She said: “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together. The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.”
Maxwell and Epstein’s ‘plea for a baby’
During an afternoon on Epstein’s private island, the disgraced financier told Giuffre that he and Maxwell wanted her to “have our baby”.
According to the NY Post, the proposal including round-the-clock nannies, a mansion in Palm Beach or New York and a $200,000 per month allowance.
Like a “modern-day handmaid” she said she would have to sign over all legal rights to the child to Epstein and Maxwell.
“There was no way I wanted to bring a child into the world for them to raise. What if the baby were female? Was the plan for Epstein and Maxwell to have me bring that little girl up until she reached puberty, then hand her over for them to abuse?” she wrote.
According to Amy Wallace, who wrote the book with Giuffre, the development was the “straw that broke the camel’s back for her” and led her to come up with an escape plan.
She convinced Epstein her send her to a masseuse school in Thailand, where she was expected to continue recruiting girls.
It was there she met her future husband, and was able to escape the clutches of Epstein.
