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By Jack Royston
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Virginia Giuffre's posthumously released memoir contains harrowing allegations of abuse at the hands of her own father, being trafficked to Prince Andrew at 17 and being silenced to protect Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.
Giuffre, one of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's most high-profile accusers, died by suicide in April. Here are some of the biggest revelations from her book, Nobody's Girl:
Virginia Giuffre Says She Was Abused by Her Father
Giuffre wrote. “As a child, I experienced nearly every kind of abuse: Incest, parental neglect, severe corporal punishment, molestation, rape. As a teen, I had been sexually trafficked by another paedophile even before I met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
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And she described her father telling her to stand up in the bath so he could clean in between her legs: “That night in my room, Dad touched me in ways nobody had before. He told me I was his special girl, his favourite, and that this was his way of giving me 'extra love.' He used his fingers at first. Then, days later, his mouth.”
Sky Roberts, her father, was approached by the book's ghostwriter and is quoted as saying: “Just to straighten this out, I never abused my daughter and didn’t know that Forrest did that either. If I had known about that, I would have been very angry and taken care of the situation."
Forrest refers to a friend of Giuffre's father, whom she said also abused her.
“I gave my daughter everything she ever wanted and never touched her sexually," Roberts said.
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Virginia Giuffre Feared She Would 'Die a Sex Slave'
The book describes abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell: "In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated—and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied. I believed that I might die a sex slave."
Prince Andrew Guessed Virginia Giuffre Was 17 Because of His Daughters
Most of Giuffre's account of being trafficked to London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands has emerged before in court filings, including her own suit against Andrew. Some passages directly quote her sworn depositions, which have been published previously.
He has always denied the allegations and has not admitted liability.
One new line came during her description of her first meeting with the prince, at Maxwell's London townhouse, hours before she alleged that she was forced to have sex with him for the first time in March 2001.
Andrew, she wrote, was asked to guess her age: "The Duke of York, who was then 41, guessed correctly: 17. 'My daughters are just a little younger than you,' he told me, explaining his accuracy. As usual, Maxwell was quick with a joke: 'I guess we will have to trade her in soon.'"
Giuffre went on to describe having sex with Andrew, stating he was "particularly attentive to my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches."
A Gag Order for the Platinum Jubilee
Giuffre sued Prince Andrew at civil court in New York and settled for an undisclosed sum in early 2022, months before Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations that June.
As the deal was being struck, Giuffre said Andrew asked for a temporary gag order to protect the royal celebrations: "I agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured his mother's Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been."
Giuffre's Suicide Attempts
Giuffre described how in 2022 she attempted suicide, weighed down by nightmares about her abuse and the smears on social media, as well as a hospital visit with COVID-19.
"I was weary of defending myself against vicious, hurtful words," she wrote, "liar, sellout, extortionist, drug addict, whore. I was sick of the nightmares: greedy, heaving men on top of me, men whose faces I recognized and would never forget, men whose faces I didn't recognize.
"Alarmingly, I see now, I wasn't afraid anymore; instead, I just felt hollowed out. So when my trauma tricked my brain into telling me lies, I listened: 'It would be better for everyone if you weren't here,' my brain said."
"I believed my brain," she continued, "so I reached for the painkillers that I had smuggled into the hospital and I swallowed as many as I could."
She survived and tried again days later, but was found by her son.
Why Giuffre Was Left Out of Ghislaine Maxwell's Trial: 'So Many Names'
Giuffre described her disappointment at not being allowed to testify against Maxwell during the New York sex trafficking trial that saw Maxwell found guilty in December 2021 and jailed for 20 years in 2022.
"The lead prosecutors, [Lara] Pomerantz and Maurene Comey, had broken the news to me that I would not be testifying because, essentially, I would be too big a distraction," Giuffre wrote.
"If I were a witness, all the men that I had previously named as my abusers would likely be called by the defense as rebuttal witnesses, the prosecutors said. They feared such theatrics would dilute jurors' focus, taking the spotlight off Maxwell.
"At its heart, prosecuting a case is about creating a clear narrative that jurors find easy to follow. My narrative was complicated, if only because I'd named so many names."
Prince Andrew's Ex-Girlfriend Allegedly Called Her a 'Whore'
"The prince was not without his supporters," Giuffre wrote. "On January 31 [2022], a former girlfriend of his, a socialite named Lady Victoria Hervey, took to Instagram to say that in her opinion, I was 'a complete whore.'
"Then, just in case anyone had forgotten that this story is not just about sexual abuse but also about class, she added that I was 'just a ghetto opportunity whose [sic] seriously mixed up.'
"Never one to shirk her public duty, Lady Victoria—the daughter of the sixth marquess of Bristol, half sister of the seventh marquess, and sister of the eighth marquess, whatever all of that means—would give many mean-spirited interviews about me in the coming months."
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