Virginia Giuffre’s memoir claims Prince Andrew knew she was 17 when they met and compared her age to his daughters. The revelations reopen old wounds.
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl is stirring global outrage and dragging Prince Andrew back into the Epstein scandal. In a newly released excerpt, published by The Guardian, Giuffre recalls meeting the Duke of York in London in March 2001 — when she says she was just 17.
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According to her account, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell flew her to London and took her to Maxwell’s townhouse in Belgravia. When Prince Andrew arrived, Maxwell reportedly encouraged him to guess Giuffre’s age. He got it right. “Seventeen,” he said, adding, “My daughters are just a little younger than you.” Maxwell, ever flippant, followed with, “I guess we’ll have to trade her in soon,” as reported by Newsweek.
At that time, Andrew was 41. His daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were 12 and 11.
Giuffre describes her outfit that night — a pink sleeveless T-shirt and glittery, multicolored jeans embroidered with horses. She says she idolized Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, like many teenage girls in the early 2000s.
She also recalls asking for a photo, saying she didn’t want to miss proof of meeting someone famous. She ran to grab a disposable Kodak camera and asked Epstein to take the picture — the same photo that later became infamous, showing Andrew with his arm around her waist as Maxwell smiled beside them.
Later, Giuffre says, they went to London’s nightclub Tramp. She remembers Andrew buying her a cocktail and asking her to dance. “He was sort of a bumbling dancer,” she wrote, adding that he “sweated profusely.” On the way back, Maxwell allegedly told her, “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”
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Giuffre claims that when they returned, Epstein and Maxwell went upstairs, leaving her alone with Andrew. She says he was friendly but entitled — “as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.” According to her account, the encounter lasted less than half an hour. She wrote that he thanked her “in his clipped British accent” before leaving. The next morning, Maxwell reportedly told her, “You did well. The prince had fun.” Epstein later gave her $15,000.
The memoir also describes further encounters with Andrew at Epstein’s New York townhouse and on his private island, Little St. James, which she said Epstein jokingly called “Little St. Jeff’s.” Giuffre claimed there were group encounters involving several underage girls. In a sworn statement from 2015, she said, “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together. The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18.”
Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied all allegations. In 2021, Giuffre sued him in New York civil court for sexual assault. The case was settled in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, with Andrew maintaining his innocence.
Giuffre died in April in what her family described as suicide. Her publisher, Knopf, confirmed she had “stated unequivocally that she wanted it published.” Nobody’s Girl is scheduled for release on October 21.
