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Extracts from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir shed fresh light on the horrifying sexual violence she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle of rich and powerful friends.

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice was published on Tuesday, six months after 41-year-old Giuffre took her own life at her home in Western Australia.

Trafficked by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, Giuffre was one of the pair’s most prominent accusers. She also alleged she was abused by Epstein’s friend Prince Andrew at just 17.

Revelations about Andrew’s involvement in the scandal – including a claim he asked a taxpayer-funded police bodyguard to dig up dirt on Giuffre – saw the prince last week forced to give up his remaining royal titles.

Nobody’s Girl, co-written with journalist Amy Wallace, includes more details about Giuffre’s alleged encounters with Andrew, deeply disturbing descriptions of Epstein’s trafficking and “torture”, and references to the involvement of other powerful figures – including a politician.

Even the allegations previously aired seem more distressing when told in Giuffre’s own words as part of her life story, which included alleged childhood abuse at the hands of her own father.

The bombshell revelations in Nobody’s Girl include:

The ‘orgy’

Giuffre claims the third time she had sex with Prince Andrew (who continues to vigorously deny the allegations) was on an island Epstein owned in the US Virgin Islands.

“The private sanctuary, right next to St Thomas island, was called Little St James, but Epstein liked to call it ‘Little St Jeff’s’,” she writes in her memoir.

“It was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together.”

Giuffre goes on to say that the other girls, supplied by French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brune (who died in 2022), “all 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,” she writes.

Ghislaine Maxwell introduced Virginia Giuffre to Epstein.

‘Miscarriage’

Some time after the orgy, Giuffre suffered irregular bleeding and a tender abdomen. In Nobody’s Girl, she writes that Epstein took her to hospital but the pain medication she was given meant she couldn’t recall what happened in the examination room.

One of the other girls in Epstein’s house later suggested an incision mark could mean she’d had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

“But Epstein told me I’d suffered a miscarriage, which is altogether something different,” Giuffre writes.

“Epstein never wore a condom. Neither did the men he and Maxwell trafficked me to.”

Meeting Andrew

It was Maxwell (now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking) who introduced Giuffre to Epstein after spotting her working as a locker-room assistant at Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago in 2000.

Giuffre says Maxwell also took her on a shopping spree to get her ready for her first meeting with Andrew.

In Nobody’s Girl, she alleges that Andrew correctly guessed her age at 17 and seemed to think he was entitled to have sex with her. She writes that after dinner, they shared a hot bath before getting into bed.

“He was particularly attentive to my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches,” Giuffre claims in an extract published by The Guardian.

“That was a first for me, and it tickled. I was nervous he would want me to do the same to him. But I needn’t have worried. He seemed in a rush to have intercourse. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour.”

She claims that Epstein later gave her $US15,000 ($A23,000) for “servicing the man the tabloids called Randy Andy”.

Prince Andrew denies even meeting Virginia Giuffre, despite photo evidence.

The puppet

Giuffre describes another visit that Prince Andrew allegedly made to Epstein’s home in 2001, during which Maxwell brought out a puppet she had bought as a joke because she thought it looked like him. Another of Epstein’s alleged victims, Johanna Sjoberg, was also there, and Giuffre writes in her memoir that Maxwell suggested they pose for a photo with the puppet.

“The prince and I sat down next to each other on the couch, and Maxwell put the puppet in my lap, positioning one of its hands on one of my breasts. Then she put Sjoberg on the prince’s lap, and the prince put his hand on Sjoberg’s breast,” Giuffre alleges.

“The symbolism was impossible to ignore. Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.”

Sadomasochistic sex

Giuffre said Epstein experimented with “whips and restraints and other instruments of torture”, according to further extracts published by the BBC.

“In session after session, he would play out various fantasies, with me as the victim,” she writes in Nobody’s Girl, adding that the encounters “caused so much pain that I prayed I would black out … When I did, I’d awaken to more abuse”.

The politician

Epstein, however, was not the only member of his circle whom Giuffre claims abused her in this way. During her time with he and Maxwell, they “lent” her to scores of “wealthy, powerful people”, she writes.

“I was habitually used and humiliated – and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied. I believed that I might die a sex slave.”

She describes one of the men she was forced to have sex with as a politician. The book doesn’t name the man; instead, Giuffre refers to him as “the Prime Minister”, and says he took pleasure in choking her and seeing her afraid for her life.

 

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In Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre expresses disappointment that Epstein – who had previously been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a person aged under 18 – avoided further accountability by taking his own life in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell, meanwhile, is three years into her 20-year sentence and was transferred two months ago to a new prison in Texas known as a “Club Fed” for its reputation as one of the more hospitable penitentiaries.

It remains to be seen if Prince Andrew will suffer further investigation or censure. However, Giuffre’s co-author, Amy Wallace told the BBC she would have seen Andrew relinquishing use of his Duke of York title as a victory.

“It’s made history, modern history, in terms of the royal era,” Wallace said.

“Virginia wanted all the men who she’d been trafficked to against her will to be held to account and this is just one of the men but… even though he continues to deny it his life is being eroded because of his past behaviour as it should be.”

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