Virginia Giuffre’s final reckoning: explosive memoir targets Prince Andrew and Epstein

WEB DESK: Nearly six months after her death, Virginia Giuffre’s voice has returned, raw, furious, and unflinching. In her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, details years of exploitation and power imbalance, describing Prince Andrew as “entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”

According to the BBC, the book, co-written with journalist Amy Wallace, is scheduled for release next week and excerpts published by The Guardian have reignited global attention on the Duke of York’s past. Giuffre, who took her own life in April in Australia at 41, leaves behind a chilling account of abuse and complicity among the world’s wealthy elite, a testimony that feels both deeply personal and uncomfortably public.

In the memoir, Giuffre recounts three encounters in which she alleges Prince Andrew had sex with her, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home, Epstein’s New York townhouse, and his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The London meeting, she writes, began with Maxwell calling it a “special day” and ended with the now-notorious photograph of Giuffre, Maxwell, and the Duke, allegedly snapped by Epstein himself.

Her descriptions are painfully specific: a “bumbling dancer” at Tramp nightclub, “profuse sweating,” and an unnerving sense of entitlement. “He was friendly enough,” she writes, “but still entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.”

Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied all allegations, settling a civil case with Giuffre in 2022 without admitting wrongdoing. His office has been contacted for comment.

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Beyond the royal connection, Nobody’s Girl paints Epstein as a “master manipulator” who preyed on young, vulnerable girls by feigning care. Giuffre writes of taking up to eight Xanax a day to cope and of the cycle that trapped her: “We were girls who no one cared about, and Epstein pretended to care.”

Her memoir, published after her death, feels like a final reckoning, not only with Epstein and his enablers, but with the silence that so often follows such crimes. Even in death, Giuffre refuses to be anyone’s victim.