Virginia Giuffre shines light on Epstein ordeal in new memoir
New York (AFP) – A memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's main accusers whose claims led to the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew was released Tuesday, promising to keep Epstein's ties to President Donald Trump in the spotlight.
Issued on: 21/10/2025 - RFI
New York (AFP) – A memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's main accusers whose claims led to the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew was released Tuesday, promising to keep Epstein's ties to President Donald Trump in the spotlight.
Issued on: 21/10/2025 - RFI
The publication of a now-infamous photo taken in London appearing to show Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre's waist set in motion the former military helicopter pilot's downfall
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While Trump features minimally in Virginia Giuffre's book, pre-publication publicity has refocused attention on the Epstein saga in the United States where a row rages over the release of files on the disgraced financier and sex offender.
Andrew on Friday renounced his royal title under pressure from King Charles III, following further revelations about his ties to Epstein and repeated allegations in Giuffre's book that she was forced to have sex with the prince three times, including when she was 17.
The ghostwriter of "Nobody's Girl," Amy Wallace, said that Giuffre -- who died by suicide in April aged 41 -- told the Washington Post that the prominent campaigner against sexual abuse had admired Trump.
"She was a huge Trump fan... There were two reasons for it: One, she'd met him. She worked at Mar-a-Lago. Her dad worked at Mar-a-Lago. She met Trump several times, and he was always very kind to her," Wallace told the Post.
"And secondly, he said he was going to release the Epstein files. He was on her side. That's how she felt."
The BBC reported that in the book Giuffre alleges three sexual encounters with Andrew -- one of which she claims was an orgy including Epstein, the prince and "eight other young girls."
The so-called Epstein files have been the focal point of the controversy engulfing the second presidency of Trump, who was a longtime friend of Epstein.
In 2019 Epstein took his own life while in prison awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Giuffre was recruited into Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking network when she was a 17-year-old minor while working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in 2000, saying in the book she feared she would "die a sex slave."
Giuffre claimed she was approached there by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later jailed in 2022 for helping Epstein sexually abuse girls.
Trump appeared to be on good terms with Epstein during this time, praising him as a "terrific guy" in a 2002 New York Magazine profile.
In the book, Giuffre recounts being introduced to Trump by her father, with the property developer asking her "do you babysit at all."
While Trump features minimally in Virginia Giuffre's book, pre-publication publicity has refocused attention on the Epstein saga in the United States where a row rages over the release of files on the disgraced financier and sex offender.
Andrew on Friday renounced his royal title under pressure from King Charles III, following further revelations about his ties to Epstein and repeated allegations in Giuffre's book that she was forced to have sex with the prince three times, including when she was 17.
The ghostwriter of "Nobody's Girl," Amy Wallace, said that Giuffre -- who died by suicide in April aged 41 -- told the Washington Post that the prominent campaigner against sexual abuse had admired Trump.
"She was a huge Trump fan... There were two reasons for it: One, she'd met him. She worked at Mar-a-Lago. Her dad worked at Mar-a-Lago. She met Trump several times, and he was always very kind to her," Wallace told the Post.
"And secondly, he said he was going to release the Epstein files. He was on her side. That's how she felt."
The BBC reported that in the book Giuffre alleges three sexual encounters with Andrew -- one of which she claims was an orgy including Epstein, the prince and "eight other young girls."
The so-called Epstein files have been the focal point of the controversy engulfing the second presidency of Trump, who was a longtime friend of Epstein.
In 2019 Epstein took his own life while in prison awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Giuffre was recruited into Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking network when she was a 17-year-old minor while working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in 2000, saying in the book she feared she would "die a sex slave."
Giuffre claimed she was approached there by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later jailed in 2022 for helping Epstein sexually abuse girls.
Trump appeared to be on good terms with Epstein during this time, praising him as a "terrific guy" in a 2002 New York Magazine profile.
In the book, Giuffre recounts being introduced to Trump by her father, with the property developer asking her "do you babysit at all."
US President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from former friend Jeffrey Epstein © Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP/File
"Soon I was making money a few nights a week, minding the children of the elite," she said in an excerpt published by Vanity Fair.
The publication of a now-infamous photo taken in London appearing to show Prince Andrew with his arm around Giuffre's waist set in motion the former military helicopter pilot's downfall.
Andrew, 65, has long denied the assault accusations, which have caused considerable embarrassment to the British monarchy and seen the prince virtually banished from royal life in recent years.
Prince Andrew reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022.
"The hope was that once the book was published for the first time since 2011, she could say: 'I respect your wish to know my memories of Prince Andrew, Ghislaine, Jeffrey, etc, all the other men. I respect that need. I have done the best version of my story,'" Wallace said.
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"Soon I was making money a few nights a week, minding the children of the elite," she said in an excerpt published by Vanity Fair.
The publication of a now-infamous photo taken in London appearing to show Prince Andrew with his arm around Giuffre's waist set in motion the former military helicopter pilot's downfall.
Andrew, 65, has long denied the assault accusations, which have caused considerable embarrassment to the British monarchy and seen the prince virtually banished from royal life in recent years.
Prince Andrew reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022.
"The hope was that once the book was published for the first time since 2011, she could say: 'I respect your wish to know my memories of Prince Andrew, Ghislaine, Jeffrey, etc, all the other men. I respect that need. I have done the best version of my story,'" Wallace said.
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EPSTEIN'S OTHER 'PAL'
Buckingham Palace and the UK government faced calls Monday to strip Prince Andrew of his titles and home after new details emerged about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew, after discussions with King Charles III, agreed Friday to stop using his Duke of York title amid ongoing public outrage.
Issued on: 21/10/2025
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He won’t call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew’s critics.
Buckingham Palace and the British government were under pressure Monday to formally strip Prince Andrew of his princely title and sumptuous home after new revelations about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
After discussions with his elder brother King Charles III, Andrew agreed on Friday to stop using titles including Duke of York. It was the latest effort to insulate the monarchy from years of tawdry headlines about Andrew’s suspicious business deals, inappropriate behaviour and controversial friendships.
But he still technically holds the title of duke, bestowed by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. And as the son of a monarch, he remains a prince.
Andrew’s statement relinquishing some of his royal titles came after emails emerged showing he had remained in contact with Epstein longer than he previously admitted, and days before publication of a posthumous memoir by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17.
Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, urged the king to go further and "remove the title of prince, too".
"He shouldn’t be able to call himself one,” Roberts told The Times of London newspaper.
Andrew, 65, has long denied Giuffre’s claims, but stepped down from royal duties after a disastrous November 2019 BBC interview in which he attempted to rebut her allegations.
Many viewers saw an entitled prince who failed to show empathy for Epstein’s victims and offered unbelievable explanations for his friendship with the late sex offender.
Andrew paid millions in an out-of-court settlement in 2022 after Giuffre filed a civil suit against him in New York.
While he didn’t admit wrongdoing, he acknowledged Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.
Some opposition politicians said Andrew should formally be stripped of his dukedom through an act of Parliament.
Scottish National Party lawmaker Stephen Flynn said the government should use legislation to remove titles from both Andrew and Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords who was fired as British ambassador to Washington in September over his past friendship with Epstein.
“The family of Virginia Giuffre, whose life was destroyed, are angry and aghast,” Flynn said. “The public across these isles are angry and aghast and they both deserve to know that some (members of Parliament) share their outrage.”
Prince Andrew gives up his Duke of York title, disgraced by Epstein allegations
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The government said it supported the palace’s decision over Andrew’s titles but should not act unilaterally. Under the UK’s constitutional monarchy, the crown does not interfere in politics and politicians stay clear of issues related to the royal family.
“Our thoughts have to be with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, those who suffered and continue to suffer because of the abuse that they experienced at his hands, but these are matters for the royal family,” Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told the BBC.
Some also want Andrew evicted from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle where he lives alongside his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who will no longer be known as the Duchess of York.
Questions have been raised about how Andrew pays for the house, which he rents on a long lease from the Crown Estate, a portfolio of properties that is nominally owned, but not controlled, by the monarch.
The palace is bracing for more embarrassing revelations, just as the king prepares for a state visit to the Vatican this week where he is due to pray beside Pope Leo XIV.
Giuffre’s book, “Nobody’s Girl”, is published on Tuesday and details three alleged sexual encounters with Andrew. She died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
In an extract published in advance, Giuffre says the prince acted as if he believed “having sex with me was his birthright”.
Giuffre also claims in the book that Andrew’s team tried “to hire internet trolls to hassle me”. She said that Andrew insisted the lawsuit settlement include a one-year gag order to prevent allegations from tarnishing the late queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
Meanwhile, London’s Metropolitan Police force says it is “actively looking into” media reports that Andrew in 2011 sought information to smear Giuffre by asking one of his police bodyguards to find out whether she had a criminal record.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
6 claims Virginia Giuffre made about Prince Andrew in her new book
The ghostwriter of Virginia Giuffre's memoir says she would have viewed Prince Andrew's relinquishing of his royal titles 'as a victory'.
Andy Wells, Freelance Writer
Updated Tue 21 October 2025
Copies of Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which was published on Tuesday 22 October. (PA)
Virginia Giuffre would have viewed Prince Andrew giving up his titles "as a victory", the ghostwriter of her posthumous memoir has said.
Andrew announced on Friday, 17 October - after consultation with his brother King Charles - that he would relinquish his royal titles after repeated questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Prince has always denied any wrongdoing.
However, the Royal Family and the government are coming under increasing pressure to formally remove his dukedom through an act of parliament.
Ms Giuffre's book, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, was published on Tuesday, six months after she took her own life at the age of 41.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight on Monday, the book's ghostwriter, Amy Wallace, said Ms Giuffre would have welcomed Andrew stopping using his titles.
“I know that she would view it as a victory that he was forced by whatever means to voluntarily give them up,” said Wallace.
"It’s a symbolic gesture but it’s an important one. It’s made history, modern history, in terms of the royal era."
Andrew was stripped of his titles after it was reported that he had emailed Epstein in 2011 saying "we're in this together", three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with him.
In the book, Ms Giuffre claims she had sex with Andrew on three separate occasions, and said she feared she might "die a sex slave" while being trafficked by Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous book makes a series of claims about Prince Andrew. (Alamy)
She said she was afraid of Epstein and his former girlfriend, Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges.
In 2022, Andrew paid an out-of-court financial settlement worth millions to Ms Giuffre after she brought a civil case against him. When giving up his titles, including the Duke of York, Andrew said he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".
Here, Yahoo News UK outlines five of the claims made in the book.
1. Ms Giuffre claims Andrew commented about his daughters' ages
In the memoir, Ms Giuffre describes meeting Andrew at Maxwell’s London home near Hyde Park, where he allegedly guessed her age correctly as 17.
She wrote: "'My daughters are just a little younger than you,' he told me, explaining his accuracy."
This comment, Ms Giuffre implies, underscored the age gap and how inappropriate the alleged encounter was, positioning Andrew as aware of her age while proceeding with the alleged events.
Prince Andrew has denied ever meeting Virginia Giuffre. (PA)
Andrew has denied ever meeting Ms Giuffre or being at Maxwell's home that day.
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In his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, he claimed he was instead at a Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, for a children’s party, stating: "I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."
2. Ms Giuffre claims Andrew sweated profusely
Ms Giuffre's book recounts heading to the Tramp nightclub in London after an infamous photo of her with Andrew was taken, where she alleges he was "sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely".
A photo allegedly taken in 2001 of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, then then Virginia Roberts, with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background. (PA/supplied by Capital Pictures)
Andrew directly countered this in his Newsnight interview, insisting he could not have sweated due to a medical condition stemming from an adrenaline overdose during the Falklands War in 1982, when he was shot at.
He explained: "I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at the time… yes, I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at… it was almost impossible for me to sweat."
3. Andrew 'tried to hire internet trolls to hassle Ms Giuffre'
Ms Giuffre claimed in her memoir Andrew's "team" attempted to hire internet trolls to "hassle" her.
In 2022, Andrew is said to have paid $12 million (£9m) to settle a civil sexual assault case by Ms Giuffre, even though he claimed to have never met her.
In her book, Ms Giuffre wrote how he hid behind “the well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle, making it difficult for her lawyers to serve him with papers.
She said of the settlement: “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me — the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well.
“We would never get a confession, of course. That’s what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgement of what I’d been through.”
The Metropolitan Police has said it would look into claims reported in the Mail on Sunday newspaper that Andrew had passed Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.
4. Ms Giuffre claims they had sex after getting in a bathtub
According to the book, after the evening in Tramp nightclub, they returned to Maxwell’s home, where Ms Giuffre claims she ran Andrew a bath before they had sex.
The extract states: "He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright… Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour."
Maxwell disputed the feasibility of this in her interview with the United States Department of Justice in July this year, describing the bathroom in her former London home as impractical for such an act
She said: "Her description of whatever the two people were doing in that tub, that wouldn't work. The bathroom itself is so small, you can't lie flat on the floor. So it couldn't happen on the floor because you physically can't."
5. Ms Giuffre claims she was paid $15,000 for encounter with Andrew
Ms Giuffre writes that the morning after the alleged encounter, Maxwell praised her, saying: "You did well. The prince had fun."
She adds that Epstein paid her $15,000 (£11,200) for "servicing the man the tabloids called 'Randy Andy'," framing it as compensation for the sexual act.
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, claims she was not present during an alleged encounter between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre. (PA)
Andrew has denied any encounter, telling Newsnight: "I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."
Maxwell, in her 2025 US Department of Justice interview, claimed she wasn't present, as she was attending her mother's 80th birthday celebrations in the countryside outside London at the time of the alleged incident.
6. Ms Giuffre claimed she had 'orgy with Andrew, Epstein and eight other young girls'
In the book, Ms Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions after being trafficked by Epstein, allegations Andrew has vehemently denied.
She said that on the third occasion, she, Andrew and Epstein participated in an orgy with "approximately eight other young girls" on Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St James, also referred to as Little Saint Jeff’s by those who knew him.
She repeated allegations made in a sworn declaration in 2015 in which she said all the girls seemed to be “under the age of 18” and "didn't really speak English".
Her memoir reads: “I don’t know exactly when I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the location: Little Saint Jeff’s.
“I also know that it was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. ‘I was around eighteen’, I said in a sworn declaration in 2015."
What happened in the civil case between Andrew and Ms Giuffre?
In 2021, Ms Giuffre sued Andrew for sexual abuse under New York's Child Victims Act, alleging the encounters in London, New York, and Epstein’s private island.
The case settled out of court in February 2022 for an undisclosed sum (reportedly around £12 million), with Andrew making a substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s victims' rights charity.
In a statement accompanying the settlement, Andrew said: "It is known that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked countless young girls over many years.
"Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein, and commends the bravery of Ms Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.
"He pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking and by supporting its victims."
Yahoo News has approached representatives for Prince Andrew for comment.
The ghostwriter of Virginia Giuffre's memoir says she would have viewed Prince Andrew's relinquishing of his royal titles 'as a victory'.
Andy Wells, Freelance Writer
Updated Tue 21 October 2025
Copies of Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which was published on Tuesday 22 October. (PA)
Virginia Giuffre would have viewed Prince Andrew giving up his titles "as a victory", the ghostwriter of her posthumous memoir has said.
Andrew announced on Friday, 17 October - after consultation with his brother King Charles - that he would relinquish his royal titles after repeated questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Prince has always denied any wrongdoing.
However, the Royal Family and the government are coming under increasing pressure to formally remove his dukedom through an act of parliament.
Ms Giuffre's book, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, was published on Tuesday, six months after she took her own life at the age of 41.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight on Monday, the book's ghostwriter, Amy Wallace, said Ms Giuffre would have welcomed Andrew stopping using his titles.
“I know that she would view it as a victory that he was forced by whatever means to voluntarily give them up,” said Wallace.
"It’s a symbolic gesture but it’s an important one. It’s made history, modern history, in terms of the royal era."
Andrew was stripped of his titles after it was reported that he had emailed Epstein in 2011 saying "we're in this together", three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with him.
In the book, Ms Giuffre claims she had sex with Andrew on three separate occasions, and said she feared she might "die a sex slave" while being trafficked by Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous book makes a series of claims about Prince Andrew. (Alamy)
She said she was afraid of Epstein and his former girlfriend, Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges.
In 2022, Andrew paid an out-of-court financial settlement worth millions to Ms Giuffre after she brought a civil case against him. When giving up his titles, including the Duke of York, Andrew said he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".
Here, Yahoo News UK outlines five of the claims made in the book.
1. Ms Giuffre claims Andrew commented about his daughters' ages
In the memoir, Ms Giuffre describes meeting Andrew at Maxwell’s London home near Hyde Park, where he allegedly guessed her age correctly as 17.
She wrote: "'My daughters are just a little younger than you,' he told me, explaining his accuracy."
This comment, Ms Giuffre implies, underscored the age gap and how inappropriate the alleged encounter was, positioning Andrew as aware of her age while proceeding with the alleged events.
Prince Andrew has denied ever meeting Virginia Giuffre. (PA)
Andrew has denied ever meeting Ms Giuffre or being at Maxwell's home that day.
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In his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, he claimed he was instead at a Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, for a children’s party, stating: "I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."
2. Ms Giuffre claims Andrew sweated profusely
Ms Giuffre's book recounts heading to the Tramp nightclub in London after an infamous photo of her with Andrew was taken, where she alleges he was "sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely".
A photo allegedly taken in 2001 of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, then then Virginia Roberts, with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background. (PA/supplied by Capital Pictures)
Andrew directly countered this in his Newsnight interview, insisting he could not have sweated due to a medical condition stemming from an adrenaline overdose during the Falklands War in 1982, when he was shot at.
He explained: "I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at the time… yes, I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at… it was almost impossible for me to sweat."
3. Andrew 'tried to hire internet trolls to hassle Ms Giuffre'
Ms Giuffre claimed in her memoir Andrew's "team" attempted to hire internet trolls to "hassle" her.
In 2022, Andrew is said to have paid $12 million (£9m) to settle a civil sexual assault case by Ms Giuffre, even though he claimed to have never met her.
In her book, Ms Giuffre wrote how he hid behind “the well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle, making it difficult for her lawyers to serve him with papers.
She said of the settlement: “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me — the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well.
“We would never get a confession, of course. That’s what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgement of what I’d been through.”
The Metropolitan Police has said it would look into claims reported in the Mail on Sunday newspaper that Andrew had passed Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.
4. Ms Giuffre claims they had sex after getting in a bathtub
According to the book, after the evening in Tramp nightclub, they returned to Maxwell’s home, where Ms Giuffre claims she ran Andrew a bath before they had sex.
The extract states: "He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright… Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour."
Maxwell disputed the feasibility of this in her interview with the United States Department of Justice in July this year, describing the bathroom in her former London home as impractical for such an act
She said: "Her description of whatever the two people were doing in that tub, that wouldn't work. The bathroom itself is so small, you can't lie flat on the floor. So it couldn't happen on the floor because you physically can't."
5. Ms Giuffre claims she was paid $15,000 for encounter with Andrew
Ms Giuffre writes that the morning after the alleged encounter, Maxwell praised her, saying: "You did well. The prince had fun."
She adds that Epstein paid her $15,000 (£11,200) for "servicing the man the tabloids called 'Randy Andy'," framing it as compensation for the sexual act.
Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, claims she was not present during an alleged encounter between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre. (PA)
Andrew has denied any encounter, telling Newsnight: "I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."
Maxwell, in her 2025 US Department of Justice interview, claimed she wasn't present, as she was attending her mother's 80th birthday celebrations in the countryside outside London at the time of the alleged incident.
6. Ms Giuffre claimed she had 'orgy with Andrew, Epstein and eight other young girls'
In the book, Ms Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions after being trafficked by Epstein, allegations Andrew has vehemently denied.
She said that on the third occasion, she, Andrew and Epstein participated in an orgy with "approximately eight other young girls" on Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St James, also referred to as Little Saint Jeff’s by those who knew him.
She repeated allegations made in a sworn declaration in 2015 in which she said all the girls seemed to be “under the age of 18” and "didn't really speak English".
Her memoir reads: “I don’t know exactly when I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the location: Little Saint Jeff’s.
“I also know that it was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. ‘I was around eighteen’, I said in a sworn declaration in 2015."
What happened in the civil case between Andrew and Ms Giuffre?
In 2021, Ms Giuffre sued Andrew for sexual abuse under New York's Child Victims Act, alleging the encounters in London, New York, and Epstein’s private island.
The case settled out of court in February 2022 for an undisclosed sum (reportedly around £12 million), with Andrew making a substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s victims' rights charity.
In a statement accompanying the settlement, Andrew said: "It is known that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked countless young girls over many years.
"Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein, and commends the bravery of Ms Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.
"He pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking and by supporting its victims."
Yahoo News has approached representatives for Prince Andrew for comment.
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