Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her father at the age of nine.
In her posthumous memoir, she describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the ‘perfect victim’ for sexual predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
‘I know about monsters,’ she wrote. ‘As a child, I experienced nearly every kind of abuse: Incest, parental neglect, severe corporal punishment, molestation, rape.’
Ms Giuffre took her own life at the age of 41 this year. It has long been known she came from a troubled home, but this is the first time she has described – in harrowing detail – her unimaginably cruel upbringing.
Her father, Sky Roberts, has strenuously denied touching her sexually.
Ms Giuffre says her father ‘touched me in ways nobody had before’ and called it ‘his way of giving me “extra love” ’ – before arranging with his friend Forrest to ‘trade’ their young daughters for a night.
Mr Roberts is quoted in the book 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, I would have been very angry and taken care of the situation.’
Among other shocking claims in Ms Giuffre’s beyond-the-grave autobiography, Nobody’s Girl, published today:
RECRUITED AS SEX SLAVE
She tells the full story of how she was recruited by Maxwell to be Epstein’s sex slave – and then ‘stooped so low’ as to entice her friends to be abused by him too. ‘I knew I was exploiting their vulnerabilities. The faces of girls I recruited will always haunt me,’ she wrote.
When she was taken to see Phantom Of The Opera by Epstein, it reminded her of the sick financier himself.
She says Epstein later became obsessed by sadomasochism. He made the teenager wear a ‘black leather metal-studded collar’ chained to her hands and feet, and ‘the backbreaking contortions that contraption forced upon me caused so much pain, I prayed I would black out’.
She added: ‘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.’
‘MY DAUGHTERS ARE A LITTLE YOUNGER’
Ms Giuffre claims Prince Andrew remarked that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were ‘just a little younger than you’ on the first night they allegedly had sex.
On the day Ms Giuffre says she met the prince in March 2001, Maxwell woke her up at her London townhouse and told her she was going to have a ‘special day’ and ‘just like Cinderella’ she would meet a ‘handsome prince’.
When Andrew arrived, Maxwell told him to guess her age. The prince, then 41, ‘guessed correctly’ that she was 17, she recalled, and he added: ‘My daughters are just a little younger than you.’
Ms Giuffre said she remembered running for her disposable camera to snap the now infamous picture of her with Andrew – saying that ‘my mom would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn’t pose for a picture’. The prince has repeatedly denied her claims.
BATH AND SEX
Later that night, Ms Giuffre claims she went to Tramp nightclub with Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell, where the prince ‘sweated profusely’ – despite him later insisting a medical condition made this impossible. Maxwell instructed her: ‘When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.’
Ms Giuffre doubles down on her claim she and Andrew had a bath together, even though photos have since shown the bathroom in Maxwell’s house was tiny.
She wrote: ‘We didn’t stay there long because the prince was eager to get to the bed. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour.’
She added: ‘He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.’
Epstein later gave her $15,000 ‘for servicing the man the tabloids called “Randy Andy”,’ she said.
SPITTING IMAGE PUPPET
Ms Giuffre tells the familiar story of how Prince Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet was used in a prank by Maxwell at Epstein’s New York mansion, in April 2001.
The ‘saucy flirt’ British socialite allegedly put Andrew’s puppet’s hand on her breast, and his real hand on the breast of another accuser, Johanna Sjoberg.
Ms Giuffre saw ‘symbolism’ in the supposed joke, saying: ‘Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.’
‘ORGY ON PAEDO ISLAND’
Ms Giuffre repeats her fiercely denied claim that Andrew took part in an orgy with her and ‘approximately eight other young girls’ on Epstein’s Caribbean island of Little St James, known as ‘Paedo Island’, in 2001.
She wrote: ‘It was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18, and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.’
Andrew has always strenuously denied her claims.
LOSING HER BABY
Days after the ‘orgy’ with the prince, she claims she lost a baby she had not even known she was carrying.
In July 2001 she was rushed to New York’s Presbyterian Hospital suffering bleeding and crippling pains in her abdomen.
The teenager remembers being examined by medics while Epstein was in the consultation room, and when a doctor left the room ‘Epstein intercepted him’ and ‘a gentleman’s agreement was struck’ to keep it quiet.
After being discharged a couple of days later, Ms Giuffre wrote that she noticed ‘a tiny incision near my belly button, which was consistent with a laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for an ectopic pregnancy… but Epstein told me I’d had a miscarriage, which is something altogether different’.
There is no suggestion Andrew was the father of the unborn baby.
SURROGATE BABY
Epstein and his British madam later asked their ‘sex slave’ to bear them a child by surrogate pregnancy, she claims. The twisted pair ‘cosied’ up to her on a sofa and Epstein praised her for showing ‘a devotion that is difficult to find’, before adding: ‘I want you to have our baby.’
Ms Giuffre recalled: ‘There was no way I wanted to bring a child into the world for them to raise.’ She said: ‘What if the baby was female? This proposal would endanger another person: a helpless child.’
QUEEN’S JUBILEE DEAL
Prince Andrew insisted Ms Giuffre sign a gagging order – so he did not embarrass the late Queen during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, the book claims.
After Ms Giuffre launched a court action against the prince for alleged rape and emotional distress, she was paid a reported £10million in a settlement in which the prince did not admit any wrongdoing. He has consistently and vehemently denied all her claims.
Ms Giuffre said she agreed to stay silent for at least one year, as part of the settlement, saying it ‘seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished’.
