Sex-trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre has launched a bombshell attack on Britain’s Prince Andrew from beyond the grave, accusing him of being “entitled” and saying he thought sex with her was his “birthright”.

Giuffre, 41, who settled a sexual assault lawsuit against the Duke of York, died in April at her farm in Western Australia.

She was a central figure in the downfall of disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his New York jail cell in August 2019 while he awaited trial. His death was ruled as a suicide.

In subsequent lawsuits, it was said Giuffre was a spa attendant as a teenager at Mar-a-Lago – US President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club – when she was approached in 2000 by Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

In June 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in New York  after being found guilty of helping to recruit his underage victims.

Giuffre was hired as a masseuse for Epstein and flown around the world for meetings with men at his behest, while she was 17 and 18. She repeatedly alleged that Prince Andrew, the younger brother of the King, slept with her on three separate occasions.

In extracts from Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice published in The Guardian on Thursday, Giuffre said she was introduced to Andrew in March 2001 while staying at Maxwell’s house near Hyde Park, London.

“Maxwell woke me up that morning by announcing in a sing-songy voice: ‘Get out of bed, sleepyhead!’ It was going to be a special day, she said. Just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince!,” the extract states.

In the memoir, Giuffre says when she met Andrew he correctly guessed her age of 17.

“‘My daughters are just a little younger than you,’ he told me, explaining his accuracy.”

Giuffre said she went to get her camera for Epstein to take a photograph of her meeting with the prince.

Prince Andrew has denied the veracity of this photo with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo: Getty

The book goes on to describe Giuffre going to the Tramp nightclub with the Duke of York.

“He was sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely,” she writes.

The extract describes how they returned to the house, and she claimed she ran Andrew a bath before they had sex.

“He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” Giuffree writes.

“Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour. The next morning, Maxwell told me: ‘You did well. The prince had fun’.”

Giuffre said Epstein paid her $US15,000 ($23,000) for “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy'”.

The memoir also includes two other occasions the British royal is alleged to have had sex with Giuffre – in New York a month later and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands when she was about 18.

The extract describes the latter as an “orgy” with “approximately eight other young girls” who “appeared to be under the age of 18”.

In his now infamous BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, the duke denied sleeping with Giuffre.

“I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” he said.

The prince also said he had no memory of the photograph of him with his arm around Giuffre’s waist at Maxwell’s house.

He said he spent the day of the alleged encounter with Giuffre in with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, taking her to Pizza Express in Woking, south-west of London, for a party.

In one of his most bizarre claims, Andrew said there was a “problem” with Giuffre’s story of a medical condition he had.

“I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falklands War when I was shot at and I simply … it was almost impossible for me to sweat,” he said.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holding a photo of herself as a child. Photo: AAP

Buckingham Palace declined to comment. But the revelations in the book are likely to be a further blow to the prince, following recent explosive allegations of emails between him, his former wife Sarah Ferguson and Epstein.

Last weekend, two British tabloids published an email purportedly from the prince to Epstein, in which he said “we are in this together” – months after Andrew said he had ended contact with Epstein.

Royal author Ingrid Seward told The Sun that the claim “looks very, very bad for Andrew”.

“It’s a small but hugely damning email. By getting caught in this lie, he has put one foot in the mire and slipped and got his whole body in the muck,” she said.

“If it was his contention that he had never met Virginia [Giuffre], or indeed that the infamous image was a creation, then surely he would have said something straight away?

“This is the point of no return for Andrew. The lifeless tentacles of Epstein’s reputation are ruinous to many people and I can’t see a way back from this.”

British historian AN Wilson, meanwhile, said the monarchy faced a major crisis over Andrew’s conduct – “perhaps the gravest since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936″.

“His very existence as an official royal is a scandal,” he said.

“They must cast him out, for if they show him mercy, they are themselves implicated, and we are only a hair’s breadth away from a republic.”

Prince Andrew’s representatives have been contacted for comment.

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice will be released on October 21

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