Prince Andrew is again under intense scrutiny following revelations from Nobody’s Girl, the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused him of sexual abuse linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The BBC obtained a copy of the book, which is set for publication on Tuesday, nearly six months after Giuffre’s death.
In it, she describes years of abuse by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, writing that she once feared she might “die a sex slave.”
Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions – in London, New York, and on Epstein’s private island – including once “with Epstein and approximately eight other young women.”
She recalled that when they first met, Maxwell told her she would meet a “handsome prince,” and Andrew, then 41, “guessed correctly: seventeen.”
“He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” Giuffre wrote.
She said Epstein later gave her $15,000 “for servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy.’”
Prince Andrew has consistently denied all allegations and reached an out-of-court financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022, while admitting no wrongdoing.
The memoir’s release comes as the prince faces growing political and public pressure. Last week, he announced he would stop using his titles, including Duke of York, and step away from the Order of the Garter.
“I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” he added in a statement.
Some UK lawmakers are now calling for Andrew’s titles to be formally removed.
MP Rachael Maskell told the BBC it was “incredibly strange that you can give a title, but you can’t remove a title.” Scottish National Party leader Stephen Flynn said there was “no justification” for the government not to act.
Meanwhile, London’s Metropolitan Police said they are “actively” reviewing reports that Prince Andrew allegedly tried to obtain Giuffre’s personal information through a police protection officer in 2011 – claims described as “scandalous” by former royal protection chief Dai Davies.
Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence.
US President Donald Trump has said he fell out with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he “stole” young women who worked at his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa.
The president made the remarks as he returned from Scotland, where he faced more questions over his relationship with the disgraced financier.
“He took people, I say ‘don’t do it anymore’, you know they work for me… beyond that, he took some others,” Trump said. “Once he did that, that was the end of him.”
It comes as the legal team for Epstein’s conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, indicated she would only testify before Congress on what she knows about the case if she is granted strict legal protections.
Amid public pressure for more disclosures in the Epstein case, a House of Representatives committee subpoenaed Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, to testify before lawmakers on 11 August.
In a letter obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS, her legal team said she would only do so if granted immunity or pardoned, and provided with questions in advance.
Questions about Trump’s relationship with Epstein followed him on to Air Force One on Tuesday, where he was asked to expand on comments he made the previous day in Scotland where he said: “He [Epstein] stole people that worked for me.”
Asked if the employees were young women, Trump responded: “the answer is yes”, and added that they were hired “out of the spa” he ran.
Trump said that one of them was Virginia Giuffre, who had said she began working at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000, when she was 16.
According to court documents unsealed in 2019, Giuffre alleged she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell to give massages to Epstein while she was working at the spa.
Giuffre accused Prince Andrew and Epstein of sexual abuse, allegations they both denied. She died by suicide earlier this year in Australia.
Trump remark’s aboard Air Force One are his latest on how he and Epstein’s relationship ended.
Last week, the White House said Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club “for being a creep”.
Pressed on whether there was a discrepancy between the reasons, Trump said: “You know, it’s sort of a little bit of the same thing.”
Trump and Epstein fell out in the early 2000s, after having been friends for more than a decade.
It also comes amid mounting pressure on Trump officials to release files related to Epstein and growing frustration with the administration’s handling of the issue, including its failure to deliver a rumoured “client list”.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump during a May briefing that his name was among hundreds that appeared in justice department documents related to Epstein. Being named in such files is no confirmation of wrongdoing.
The two were spotted together at parties throughout their friendship. At least two women who had attended those events later came forward with sexual assault allegations against Trump.
One of them was Jill Harth, who accused Trump in a 1997 lawsuit of forcibly kissing her and fondling her at a Mar-a-Lago event for young women where Epstein was also in attendance, the New York Times reported. Trump denied the allegations and the lawsuit was dropped.
Another woman, model Stacey Williams, accused Trump of groping her after she was brought to Trump Tower in Manhattan by Epstein to greet Trump. The president has also denied her allegations.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 for his birthday.
It reportedly contained a joking reference that “enigmas never age” and allegedly ended with the words: “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence
Trump and Epstein reportedly fell out in 2004 over a sought-after Palm Beach oceanfront property that had fallen into foreclosure. Trump ultimately outbid Epstein for the home.
In 2006, Epstein was indicted in Florida for solicitation of prostitution and later pleaded guilty to the charges. He was then arrested in 2019 over federal charges of sex trafficking, and died by suicide in prison before his trial.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was found guilty of helping Epstein sexually exploit and abuse young girls over the course of a decade.
She was subpoenaed by House Oversight chairman James Comer last week to testify before Congress.
Her lawyers made an appeal for clemency from President Trump, writing that if she “were to receive clemency, she would be willing – and eager – to testify openly and honestly”.
Earlier on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Comer said the Kentucky congressman “will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony”.
Comer told CNN last week that there were not “many Republicans that want to give immunity to someone that may have been sex trafficking children”.
Asked whether he would give clemency to Maxwell, Trump told reporters last week that doing so was within his powers, but that he had “not thought” about it.
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has died by suicide aged 41, her family has said.
Ms Giuffre was one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex offenders Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend. She alleged they trafficked her to the Duke of York when she was 17, which Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
Relatives said in a statement on Friday that she had been a “fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse”, and that the “toll of abuse… became unbearable”.
“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” they said.
The statement described the mother of three “as the light that lifted so many survivors” and said she died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia.
West Australia police said they were called to a home in the Neergabby area on Friday night, where Ms Giuffre was found unresponsive.
A statement continued: “The death is being investigated by Major Crime detectives; early indication is the death is not suspicious.”
Ms Giuffre – who was born in the US – had been living with her children and husband Robert in the suburb of North Perth, although recent reports suggested the couple had split after 22 years of marriage.
Three weeks ago, Ms Giuffre posted on Instagram to say she had been seriously injured in a car accident, which her family later said she had not intended to make public. Local police later disputed the severity of the crash.
In a statement, Ms Giuffre’s long-time spokesperson Dini von Mueffling described her as “one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever had the honour to know”.
She said Ms Giuffre was a “beacon to other survivors and victims” and that “it was the privilege of a lifetime to represent her”.
After making her abuse allegations public, Ms Giuffre became a prominent campaigner and was closely associated with the Me Too movement.
Ms Giuffre alleged that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to Prince Andrew when she was 17.
The prince, who has denied all claims against him, reached an out-of-court settlement with her in 2022.
The settlement included a statement in which he expressed regret for his association with Epstein but contained no admission of liability or apology.
Ms Giuffre said she became a victim of sex trafficking when she was a teenager.
She said she met Maxwell, a British socialite, in 2000.
From there, she said she was introduced to American financier Epstein and alleged years of abuse by him and his associates.
Epstein took his own life in prison in 2019, where he was being held awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
He was previously convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US for her role in Epstein’s trafficking and abuse.
