**Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir Reveals Harrowing Details and a Message of Hope**
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s powerful memoir, *Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice*, was released posthumously on Tuesday. In the book, Giuffre shares her firsthand account of the abuse she endured and her years of fighting for justice, including her well-known accusations against Prince Andrew and the trafficking ring orchestrated by Jeffrey Epstein.
Giuffre tragically died by suicide earlier this year, but her memoir stands as a testament to her courage and resilience. Here are some of the key takeaways from her story.
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### More Details About Prince Andrew
Giuffre’s book alleges that she had sex with Prince Andrew three times, including when she was just 17 years old, after being trafficked by Epstein. She describes one encounter as part of an orgy involving around eight other girls, noting, “The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of eighteen and didn’t really speak English.”
Giuffre also details the challenges her legal team faced while pursuing justice. She claims Prince Andrew made it difficult to serve him legal papers by “fleeing to Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hiding behind its well-guarded gates.” Prince Andrew has vehemently denied the allegations.
A pivotal moment in the case came with Andrew’s November 2019 interview on the BBC program *Newsnight*. Widely criticized for his apparent lack of empathy, Giuffre described the interview as “like an injection of jet fuel” for her legal team. She wrote that its contents helped build an “ironclad case” and even opened the possibility of subpoenaing Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Settlement negotiations accelerated after Andrew hired American lawyer Andrew Brettler, known for representing public figures facing #MeToo allegations. Giuffre noted that Brettler “was less reluctant than some of his British counterparts to face reality.”
Importantly, Giuffre and her legal team sought more than just financial compensation—they wanted acknowledgment of her experiences. “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long, Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me,” she wrote. “The Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well. We would never get a confession, of course.”
On February 15, 2022, the settlement was announced. Prince Andrew and Giuffre issued a joint statement confirming that Andrew would pay Giuffre a sum—undisclosed publicly—and make a “substantial donation” to Giuffre’s nonprofit supporting victims’ rights. Andrew did not admit wrongdoing but expressed regret over his association with Epstein.
Giuffre also revealed that she agreed to a one-year gag order, which was important to Andrew as it ensured his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be further overshadowed.
In a further development last week, ahead of the memoir’s publication, Prince Andrew announced he would no longer use his Duke of York title, having already stepped back from royal duties in 2019.
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### Mar-a-Lago and Meeting President Trump
Before falling under Epstein’s influence, Giuffre worked at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000, alongside her father, who was a maintenance worker responsible for air conditioning units and tennis courts.
“I remember he gave me a brief tour before presenting me to the hiring manager who, after I passed both a drug test and a polygraph, agreed to take me on,” Giuffre wrote.
She recalled meeting Mr. Trump in his office shortly after starting the job. “They weren’t friends exactly. But Dad worked hard, and Trump liked that,” she said. When she met Trump, he “couldn’t have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic I was there,” and even asked if she babysat children, referencing families staying at nearby Trump properties.
It was also at Mar-a-Lago that Giuffre first encountered Ghislaine Maxwell. She recounted a “steaming hot day some weeks before my seventeenth birthday” when Maxwell’s car slowed behind her, and Maxwell introduced herself.
“I wish I could say that I saw through Maxwell’s polished façade,” Giuffre admitted. “Instead, my first impression of Maxwell was the same one I formed when I greeted any well-heeled Mar-a-Lago guest. I’d be lucky, I thought, if I could grow up to be anything like her.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on federal sex trafficking conspiracy charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein died in jail in 2019 following his arrest on sex trafficking charges. President Trump has denied any knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell’s illegal activities.
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### Giuffre’s Message to the World
Giuffre reflects on the lifelong impact of the abuse she endured and expresses her dedication to fighting against her abusers and supporting others in similar situations.
“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what Epstein was doing,” she warned. “Anyone who spent any significant amount of time with Epstein saw him touching girls in ways you wouldn’t want a creepy old man touching your daughter. They can say they didn’t know he was raping children. But they were not blind. (Not to mention the fact that many prominent people were still associating with him years after.)”
Though recounting her story has been “extremely painful and exhausting,” Giuffre said she does not regret sharing it. She hopes her story will inspire others to seek freedom from abuse, stand up for victims, and rethink how society judges survivors of sexual abuse.
“I truly believe that each one of us can make positive change,” she wrote. “I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else.”
Giuffre yearns for a time “when perpetrators face more shame than their victims do,” and where survivors “can confront their abusers when they are ready, no matter how much time has passed.”
“*We don’t live in this world yet,*” she concluded. “If this book moves us even an inch closer to a reality like that—if it helps just one person—I will have achieved my goal.”
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir is a sobering, heartfelt account that sheds light on the dark realities of trafficking and abuse, while offering a message of hope and resilience for survivors everywhere.
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