Virginia Giuffre says she feared she would “die a sex slave” at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his entourage, her posthumous memoir reveals.
The BBC 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 killed herself.
In the memoir, Ms. Giuffre also says she had sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including once with Epstein and about eight other young women.
Prince Andrew, who reached a financial agreement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, has always denied any wrongdoing.
The memoir, which the BBC bought from a central London bookstore days before its official release, paints a picture of a network of rich and powerful people abusing young women.
At the center of the abuse were Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
Ms. Giuffre says that even decades later, she remembers how much she feared them both.
Much of the book is an extremely harrowing read, as Ms. Giuffre details the sadistic abuse Epstein subjected her to.
She says Epstein subjected her to sadomasochistic sex that caused her “so much pain I prayed I would pass out.”
A Buckingham Palace source told BBC News they accept there could be “still days of pain to come” following the book’s publication, which subjects Prince Andrew to greater scrutiny.
The king’s commitments this week include a visit to the Vatican, where he will pray alongside the pope.
On Friday, Prince Andrew announced that he was voluntarily deciding not to use his titles, including that of Duke of York, an honor received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
He also renounced membership of the Order of the Garter, Britain’s oldest and highest order of chivalry.
In his statement, he said: “I vigorously deny the accusations against me.”
While Andrew, who remains a prince as the son of a monarch, will no longer use his titles, a small number of MPs are calling for them to be officially stripped from him. They include Rachel Maskell, independent MP for York, and Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP at Westminster.
But Henry Zeffman, the BBC’s chief political correspondent, said: “I think it is extremely unlikely that the Government will take the lead in this area.
“It may well be that developments require further action against Andrew, but if that is the case, I think it would be the monarchy making the decision and the government following, rather than the other way around.”
The new book, written by Ms. Giuffre and ghostwriter Amy Wallace, subjects the prince to even more scrutiny.
In her memoir, Ms Giuffre says she first met Prince Andrew in March 2001.
She writes that Maxwell woke her up and told her it would be a “special day” and that “just like Cinderella” she was going to meet a “handsome prince.”
She says that when she met Prince Andrew later that day, Maxwell asked her to guess his age.
The prince, then aged 41, “guessed correctly: seventeen,” Ms. Giuffre said. “My daughters are just a little younger than you,” she remembers him telling him.
That night, she says she attended London’s Tramp nightclub with Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell, where she said the prince “sweated profusely.”
In a car on the way back to Maxwell’s house, Ms. Giuffre writes that Maxwell told her: “When we get home, you have to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”
She wrote that at home they had made love.
“He was pretty friendly, but he still had an entitlement — like he thought sleeping with me was his birthright,” she says.
“The next morning it was clear that Maxwell had spoken to her royal pal because she said to me, ‘You did well. The prince had a great time.'”
Ms. Giuffre writes that she “wasn’t feeling very good,” adding: “Soon Epstein would give me $15,000 to do a favor for the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’ – a lot of money.”
Ms. Giuffre says she had a second sexual encounter with the prince about a month later at Epstein’s New York home.
She said the third time happened on Epstein’s island as part of what Ms. Giuffre called “an orgy.”
She writes that she said in a 2015 affidavit that she was “around 18 years old.”
“Epstein, Andy and about eight other young girls and I had sex together,” she says.
“The other girls all seemed to be under 18 and didn’t really speak English.
“Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they were the easiest girls to get along with.”
Later in the book, Ms Giuffre discusses her 2022 out-of-court settlement with Prince Andrew after filing a civil suit against him.
“I agreed to a one-year silence, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s platinum jubilee would not be more tarnished than it had already been,” she wrote.
While Ms Giuffre’s alleged interactions with Prince Andrew were widely reported by the British press, the book’s contents are broader in scope – littered with lurid details of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
The girls were made to look “childish,” Ms. Giuffre said, and her childhood eating disorder was “only encouraged” under Epstein’s roof.
“During my years with them, they loaned me out to dozens of rich and powerful people,” she wrote.
“I was usually used and humiliated – and in some cases, choked, beaten and bloodied.
“I thought I might die as a sex slave.”
Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a person under the age of 18. He died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
On Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said it was “actively” investigating media reports that Prince Andrew had attempted to obtain personal information about Ms Giuffre through her police protection officer (PPO).
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.
The newspaper said he gave the officer his date of birth and confidential social security number.
Dai Davies, the former head of royal protection at Scotland Yard, told BBC One’s Breakfast show the issue was “outrageous”, adding: “It has to be put to bed one way or another.”
“If – and I mean if – there is evidence of criminality under the Data Protection Act or malfeasance in the exercise of a public function, then this should be carefully investigated and then a report sent to the Public Prosecution Service (Prosecution Service),” he said.
“And it is clear that the government itself should then act, regarding his status as a prince.”
A royal source told the BBC that there are currently no plans to scrap the prince title Andrew was born with.
“Headlines take a lot of oxygen out of the royal room,” they added, referring to press reports that Prince Andrew was distracting from King Charles’s engagements.
In 2019, the prince repeatedly told BBC Newsnight that he did not remember meeting Ms Giuffre “at all” and that they “never had any sexual contact”.
Buckingham Palace has not commented.
