Virginia Giuffre's explosive memoir: Prince Andrew's controversial comments
Virginia Giuffre, who accused disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Britain's Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, will be released in October
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Virginia Giuffre’s 400-page memoir, Nobody’s Girl, is set to be published on 21 October 2025.
The book, completed before she died by suicide in April 2025, was written with journalist Amy Wallace and explores her years as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
One of the most explosive parts of the memoir concerns the night she says she was trafficked to then-41-year-old Prince Andrew when she was 17.
According to her account, during a gathering at Maxwell’s London home, the duke guessed her age correctly and remarked: “My daughters are just a little younger than you.”
She says Maxwell quipped, “I guess we will have to trade her in soon.”
The book, completed before she died by suicide in April 2025, was written with journalist Amy Wallace.
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Virginia recalled being told that after dinner and a night out, she was expected to have sex with Andrew. She described him as friendly yet entitled, and claims he paid particular attention to her feet.
At the end, she says he murmured “thank you” in a clipped British accent.
She also claims Maxwell instructed her: “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”
In addition, Giuffre says Epstein gave her US$15 000 (R285 000) after that encounter.
Prince Andrew has always denied the allegations, saying he never had sexual contact with Giuffre - and arguing the well-known photograph of them together was manipulated.
In 2022, he reached an out-of-court settlement with her, without admitting liability.
Estimates of the settlement amount vary. Some reports suggest the amount could have been around £3 million ( R70 million), which included a donation to her advocacy charity.
Earlier reports had floated much higher sums, but those remain unverified.
The memoir also dives into her younger years, grooming, trafficking, and her escape, and offers a searing critique of how wealth, privilege and power shield perpetrators from accountability.
The publishers say the book contains “intimate, disturbing and heartbreaking new details” about her time with Epstein, Maxwell and other powerful individuals.
The memoir is expected to renew public scrutiny of those she named, and shine a spotlight on the systemic vulnerabilities that enable abuse to persist.
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