Dfter years of maintaining his innocence, even going so far as to shell out millions of pounds in the hope of blocking further revelations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew can no longer hide. The dreaded memoir Nobody’s Girl. My story of survival in the name of justicepublished in Italy by Bompiani and now published all over the world, deals him the final blow with a detailed and merciless account of the suffering caused to Giuffre by the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his partner Ghislaine Maxwell and Andrea himself.
Virginia Giuffre: «Prince Andrew cannot escape justice»
While not identifying the other men who abused Giuffre, who committed suicide last April at the age of 41, the 400-page Nobody’s Girl they mention Andrea’s name 88 times. And even though, three years ago, the prince had tried to shut her mouth with a controversial multi-million dollar dealthe one who accused him of sexual abuse, suffered when the girl was still a minor, continues to ask for justice even from the afterlife (those millions received from Andrea, she clarified before dying, she allocated to help victims like her).
The first meeting with Prince Andrew
The details of the first meeting between Andrea and Giuffre in London will infuriate Buckingham Palace. It was 2001, the girl was just 17 years old and Andrea was 41. That morning, Maxwell woke up Virginia by telling her: «Just like Cinderella, today you will meet a handsome prince». And upon seeing her, the then duke admitted: “My daughters are slightly younger than you.”
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir (IPA)
The details that embarrass Andrea (and the Royal Family)
After dinner and a clubbing, the group did return to Epstein’s villa and Maxwell told Giuffre: “Now you have to do the same things to him (Andrea) as you do to Epstein.” The sex lasted less than half an hour and the prince left her with a simple “Thank you.” But Ghislaine complimented her: «Well done. The prince had fun with you.”
The prince’s obsession with Britney Spears-style dresses
The famous photo taken by Epstein also dates back to that first meeting and portrays the girl with the prince and, behind them, Ghislaine Maxwell. Virginia smiles, happy to meet such an important person, and thinks of her mother, who would not have forgiven her if she hadn’t had her photo taken. Despite having warned Epstein himself of the possibility of having been photographed with the young woman, Andrea now claims not to remember the episode and believes the image was manipulated. On that occasion the prince would have asked to Giuffre to always wear, as in the photo, clothes inspired by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Andrea continues to deny ever having met Giuffre
The prince was nice enough, says Virginia Giuffre, “but it was as if he thought that having sex with me was his birthright.” Epstein gave her 15 thousand dollars as thanks for pleasing the prince. But to this day, Andrea claims to have never met the girl: that day he accompanied his daughter Beatrice to a pizzeria with her friends.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Getty Images)
Epstein’s other victims
In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre recounts two other sexual encounters with the prince, one in New York, in the billionaire’s home, and another in the villa in Little Saint James, Epstein’s private island in the Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean. Here a real orgy took place in which, in addition to Andrea and Giuffre, Epstein and eight other minor girls who didn’t speak a word of English. On that occasion, Epstein commented that, thanks to the fact that they could not communicate, they were the easiest girls to manage.
Andrea on horseback in Windsor, April 2024 (Peter MacDiarmid/Shutterstock)
Prince Andrew’s hide and seek games
In 2021, Giuffre launched a legal battle against Prince Andrew, accusing him of raping and beating her, causing permanent health problems. But the necessary documents could not be delivered to the prince who, having heard of what was about to happen, he took refuge in Scotland, hiding behind the sacred gates of Balmoral.
Andrea desperate, looking for evidence against Giuffre
Looking for a way – any way – to defend himself, the prince asked in vain for help from Ed Perkins, one of his mother Elizabeth’s most important assistants. Then he tried to recruit trolls to ruin Giuffre’s reputation and credibility. He even asked a one of his bodyguardsprovided by the police, to investigate the girl, in an attempt to recover personal information and discredit the accuser once and for all.
The saddest chapter of the book
In one of the most tragic revelations of the book, Virginia Giuffre (who said she was also raped by her father) tells of one morning, shortly after meeting the prince, in which the girl woke up in a pool of blood. She didn’t know she was pregnant and the miscarriage she suffered shook her terribly. The identity of the father of the unborn child remains a mystery, but it makes the tragedy of the young woman, determined to obtain justice, even more human. Even if he won’t be here to enjoy it.