Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s memoir details experience with Prince Andrew
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(NewsNation) — In her posthumous memoir, Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre said Prince Andrew felt “entitled” to her and accused him of working to silence her.
Giuffre died by suicide in April. Her book comes as there is growing pressure on the Trump administration and Congress to release files on billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as promised. It also comes just after Prince Andrew announced he would be giving up his royal titles.
Prince Andrew has denied the allegations and has said he never met Giuffre.
Virginia Giuffre on being recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell
Giuffre’s book, “Nobody’s Girl,” details how she was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell while working at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club as a teenager. Giuffre writes how the older woman used her interest in massage to entice her.
She says she suffered abuse at the hands of many men Epstein trafficked her to and feared she would die a sex slave.
Guiffre describes Prince Andrew as “entitled” and acting as if he had the right to have sex with her, and in the book, she says she was given $15,000 for her first night with the royal. She was 17 at the time.
Virginia Giuffre says Prince Andrew silenced her
After the allegation against Epstein and his associates, including Prince Andrew, became public, Giuffre describes the prince as hiding behind the walls of Buckingham Palace.
She writes the prince hired internet trolls to harass her and embarked on a smear campaign.
Giuffre also said that as part of a settlement in a civil case in 2022, she agreed to a one-year gag order in an attempt to keep the story out of the limelight during Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Release of Epstein files
While Trump pledged to release all the Epstein files and an alleged Epstein client list during his campaign, his administration has now walked that promise back, and Trump has begun to refer to the files as a Democrat hoax.
Republicans in Congress have accused Democrats of politicizing the files, with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accusing Democrats of “imagining” some connection between Trump and Epstein.
An investigation into the files is being run by the House Oversight Committee, and Johnson promised on Tuesday to release “all credible information” that can be made public while still protecting the identities of the victims.
House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., also accused Democrats of running a smear campaign and brought up President Bill Clinton’s ties to Epstein.
“No one is protecting Epstein or his associates,” he said.