Virginia Giuffre was still haunted by the “hungry ghosts” of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell decades after she escaped their “house of shame”, her posthumous memoir reveals.
Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse that readers may find distressing.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at her property in Neergabby, about 80 kilometres north of Perth, was a prominent accuser of Epstein.
She had long alleged she was trafficked for sex to Prince Andrew by Epstein when she was a teenager.
Her memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is a harrowing account of a woman familiar with “monsters”, who wanted to be portrayed authentically.
In the 367-page book, Giuffre tells the story of her abuse, which allegedly began at the hands of her father and a family friend when she was young.
Her father, Sky William Roberts, denied the allegations.
Deemed “out of control” by her mother, who Giuffre alleged became “cold and remote” after the abuse by her father began, she was sent, as a teen, to a “tough-love treatment centre” until she ran away.
That led her to an “old man with a limousine” who claimed to own a modelling agency, groomed her with gifts and eventually trafficked her to a friend of his.
But it was her experiences with Epstein and Maxwell, “a molester with posh manners and an aristocratic pedigree” that continued to haunt her in vivid flashbacks.
She wrote that she still “feared them both”.
“Still I feel haunted by their hungry ghosts,” Giuffre wrote.
Excerpts of the book published by UK media last week included Giuffre’s allegations about being trafficked to Prince Andrew, who, she wrote was “entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright”.
In the memoir Giuffre claimed that just before she met Prince Andrew in March 2001, when she was 17 years old, she was told by Maxwell in a singsongy voice that “just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince!”
Upon meeting the royal, Giuffre recalled Maxwell telling him to guess her age.
The prince, who was then 41, “guessed correctly” that she was 17, Giuffre said.
“My daughters are just a little younger than you,” she remembered him saying.
She also detailed three separate occasions when she had sex with the prince, who she called Andy, in meetings that have been reported in previous witness statements and accounts.
The royal has previously denied Guiffre’s accusations that he forced her to have sex more than two decades ago.
A settlement was reached in February 2022 in a civil case brought by Giuffre against Prince Andrew.
Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.
On Friday, local time, Prince Andrew announced he had given up his royal titles and membership of the Order of the Garter after concluding that the “continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family”.
“I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” he added.
Amy Wallace, who ghostwrote the memoir, said that Giuffre would be pleased that Prince Andrew could no longer use titles and honours.
Nobody’s Girl co-author on what it means to see Virginia Giuffre’s story out in the open (ABC News Breakfast)
“I know that she would view it as a victory, that he was forced by whatever means to voluntarily give them up,” she told the BBC.
“And it’s also just a step in the right direction — you know, Virginia wanted all the men who she’d been trafficked to against her will to be held to account.
“And this is just one of the men, but he is being forced to, even though he continues to deny it.
“His life is being eroded because of his past behaviour.”
On the eve of the publication of the memoir, the British government faced calls to formally remove Prince Andrew’s titles.
It has so far resisted them, even as the book brings fresh scrutiny to the prince.
Worst thing Maxwell and Epstein did was ‘psychological’
The memoir goes into some detail about Giuffre’s early childhood and teen years before she recalls being spotted by Maxwell, whose accent reminded her of Mary Poppins, while reading a book at Mar-a-Lago one morning.
She claimed Maxwell invited her over to the “Pink House” for an interview, an offer she accepted in the belief it would lead to big things.
She was then ushered into a room asked to give a naked Epste
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