LONDON (AP) — Britain’s royal family is once again under intense scrutiny following one man’s memoir. prince andrew ” by Jeffrey Epstein’s most outspoken accuser, Virginia Giuffre, hits bookstores on Tuesday.
The memoir “Nobody’s Girl” will be published six months after Giuffre’s death. He died by suicide in April.
Giuffre has long accused Andrew of sexually abusing him multiple times when he was under 18 and that he was the victim of sex trafficking by convicted sex offender Epstein and his ex-girlfriend. Ghislaine Maxwell.
Although her book broke no new ground, it did fuel a series of new accusations against Andrew. Andrew is renewing efforts to limit damage to the monarchy from a years-long scandal over his friendship with Epstein.
The 65-year-old prince said last week that he would do so. stop using his title The Duke of York also reiterated that he “categorically” denies Giuffre’s claims.
In her book, which shot to number one on Amazon’s bestseller list on Monday ahead of publication, Giuffre details how she first met Andrew in March 2001 and how royal staff tried to hire “internet trolls” to embarrass her when she sued him years later.
Description of three interactions with Andrew
Giuffre has long maintained that she was scouted by Epstein and Maxwell when she was 16 and introduced to Andrew in London in March 2001 when she was 17. Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with members of the royal family on three separate occasions.
She wrote that on the first day she met Andrew, Maxwell woke her up and told her it would be a special day and that she would meet a “handsome prince” “just like Cinderella.”
When they met, she said, the prince told her: “My daughters are a little younger than you.” She said she was instructed by Maxwell to “do to him what you do to Jeffrey,” adding, “I thought you would be wiser than to question her orders.” She said Epstein gave her $15,000 shortly afterward for sex with Andrew.
Giuffre wrote that she had sex with the royal a second time about a month later at Epstein’s home in New York, and a third time on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean with about eight other girls believed to be under 18.
2022 litigation settlement
Ms Giuffre previously detailed how Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew forced her to have sex with the prince against her will. lawsuit She filed in New York in 2021.
andrew an out-of-court settlement was reached In 2022, he will sign with Giuffre for an undisclosed amount. Although Andrew denied any wrongdoing, he acknowledged Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking and agreed to donate money to her charity.
Regarding the settlement, Giuffre wrote: “After so many years of questioning my credibility – even though Prince Andrew’s team went so far as to hire internet trolls to embarrass me – the Duke of York also owed me a meaningful apology.”
“Of course we will never get a confession. The settlement is designed to avoid that,” she added. “But we were aiming for the next best thing, which is to get public recognition for what I went through.”
New suspicions against the prince
Andrew, the second son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, is already Retired from all public duties and philanthropy in 2019After an attempt to dispel reports about his friendship with Epstein backfired badly.
The prince was widely criticized for his BBC interview in which he gave an incredible explanation for his continued relationship with the disgraced investor. He also said he had no sexual contact with Giuffre and had “zero recollection” of ever meeting her, and said he had “zero recollection” of the now-infamous 2001 photo of Giuffre with his arm around her waist.
Andrew also said in the same interview that he stopped contacting Epstein in December 2010.
Last week, a British newspaper published emails showing that the royal family had been in contact with Epstein for longer than he admitted. In a note reportedly dated February 28, 2011, Andrew said they were “in this together” and “we have to get through it.”
Separately, in London on Sunday, The Metropolitan Police Department announced that it is investigating the details of the report. According to the Mail on Sunday, Andrew asked a police officer appointed as his bodyguard in 2011 to find out if Giuffre had a criminal record.
