A memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, who died earlier this year, is set to hit the shelves within months in a fresh blow for Prince Andrew. Virginia Giuffre, who was found dead at her home in Australia in April, had spent the last few years of her life working on a book called Nobody’s Girl.
The memoir, which will be released in October, will reportedly repeat accusations that the Duke of York, 65, sexually abused her when she was 17 – claims the prince has always strongly denied. This includes Giuffre’s claims that the duke allegedly used a puppet of himself to sexually assault her.
She previously made these claims in her earlier memoir The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, where she alleged that she was paid by convicted paedophile Epstein to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew.
Giuffre claimed in her first memoir that in April 2001, she was introduced to the duke in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion where Andrew was given a caricature puppet of himself from the satirical 1980s TV show Spitting Image by Epstein and Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
She then claimed Andrew used the puppet to touch her inappropriately.
Prince Andrew has always repeatedly and vehemently denied the claims made by Giuffre and later settled a lawsuit against her for an undisclosed sum, without accepting any liability.
However, his links to Epstein led to him stepping down as a senior working member of the Royal Family in 2019.