“Nobody’s Girl” and the Prince: what Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir alleges

Virginia Giuffre is the focus of a posthumous memoir due next week, co-written with Amy Wallace. The book gathers her long-running allegations about life around Jeffrey Epstein and restates claims involving Prince Andrew. The Duke of York denies all wrongdoing and settled a civil case without admitting liability.

In measured, often stark prose, Virginia Giuffre describes being drawn into Epstein’s circle through Ghislaine Maxwell as a teenager. Three encounters with the Duke are set out, the first said to be in London in March 2001 at Maxwell’s home. She recalls being introduced, a photograph taken with Maxwell smiling beside her, dinner, then a visit to Tramp nightclub where she describes Andrew as an awkward dancer who “sweated profusely”.

Her account continues with an instruction she says she received on returning to the house and a payment of $15,000 she says followed. Two further episodes are placed at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and on his private island in the US Virgin Islands. Much of this material has surfaced before in statements and interviews, but the book situates it in a single narrative alongside Giuffre’s description of grooming, power and dependency.

Prince Andrew’s position is unchanged. He says he does not recall meeting Virginia Giuffre, disputes her description of that night in London and maintains that “it never happened”. In 2022 he made a financial payment to settle Giuffre’s civil lawsuit in the United States, a deal that contained no admission of liability.

Beyond the headline names, the book attempts to explain why some teenagers did not simply leave. Virginia Giuffre writes about prior trauma, poverty and the steady erosion of confidence. She describes Epstein as a “master manipulator”, and says the atmosphere around him normalised control while presenting itself as care. She also sets out the toll on her health, including heavy use of tranquillisers to cope.

Publication is likely to reopen debate about accountability, the limits of civil settlements and what, if anything, those around Epstein knew. Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial. Maxwell is serving a custodial sentence for offences linked to sex trafficking. Giuffre later settled in Australia with her husband and children and died at the age of 41.

If you have been affected by issues raised in this report, confidential NHS guidance is available here: Support after sexual assault and abuse.

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