Virginia Giuffre Memoir Raises Pressure on Prince Andrew

The posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s principal accusers whose allegations led to the downfall of Britain’s Prince Andrew, went on sale on Tuesday, intensifying pressure on the scandal-hit royal.

The publication of Giuffre’s book, Nobody’s Girl, has refocused global attention on the Epstein case, in both the UK and the US, where debate continues over the release of documents related to the disgraced financier and sex offender.

In the UK, renewed allegations that Giuffre was forced to have sex with Andrew three times — including when she was 17 — prompted the prince last Friday to renounce his royal title and honours under pressure from King Charles III.

Giuffre, a dual US and Australian citizen, took her own life in April at the age of 41. Her ghostwriter, Amy Wallace, told the BBC that Giuffre would have regarded Andrew’s relinquishment of his titles as a personal victory.

“His life is being eroded because of his past behaviour,” Wallace said, describing Andrew’s renunciation of the Duke of York title as “a step in the right direction.”
She urged him to cooperate with US lawmakers still investigating Epstein’s crimes, suggesting he could acknowledge what he witnessed while maintaining his denial of direct involvement.

US Congressman Pete Sessions, a member of the Congressional oversight committee investigating Epstein, echoed this view: “It would be interesting to see what he did know, what he did see,” he told BBC Radio.

Andrew, 65, who has consistently denied wrongdoing, agreed to pay Giuffre millions of dollars in 2022 to settle her civil sexual assault case against him. In her memoir, she reportedly details three sexual encounters with him, one of which she claims involved an orgy with Epstein, the prince, and eight other young girls.

In the UK, Andrew quit a trade envoy role in 2011 following earlier controversies, and relinquished his royal duties and HRH title in 2019 after a disastrous TV interview addressing Giuffre’s allegations.

He now faces renewed calls to lose his princely title entirely, alongside demands for transparency over his finances and housing.

Charles prepares for a two-day Vatican state visit starting Wednesday, amid scrutiny of Andrew’s housing arrangements. According to The Times, Andrew has not paid rent for two decades for the 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor, which he shares with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

The arrangement stems from a 2003 deal with the Crown Estate, under which Andrew spent £8.5 million ($11.4 million) on the lease and refurbishments, in exchange for no annual rent and residency rights until 2078.

Senior Conservative MP Robert Jenrick criticised the arrangement, saying it was “about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private” and that “the public are sick of him.”

In the US, the so-called Epstein files have continued to draw attention amid controversy over former President Donald Trump’s second term. Epstein, once a friend of Trump, committed suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

Giuffre alleges she was recruited into Epstein’s network at 17 while working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in 2000. She recounts fearing she would “die a sex slave” and being approached by Ghislaine Maxwell, later jailed in 2022 for facilitating Epstein’s abuse of girls.

Trump appeared to be on good terms with Epstein at the time, describing him as a “terrific guy” in a 2002 profile by New York Magazine. Giuffre also claims in her memoir that her father introduced her to Trump, who asked: “Do you babysit at all?”

“Soon I was making money a few nights a week, minding the children of the elite,” she recalled in an excerpt published by Vanity Fair.

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The memoir’s release is expected to further intensify scrutiny of Andrew’s past conduct and reignite public and political debate over the British royal family’s handling of the Epstein scandal.