Late Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir to Be Released

Prince Andrew's sex accuser is set to release an 'unsparing' memoir from beyond the grave.

The 'intimate' tome by Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre will be published this autumn, six months after she died.

Ms Giuffre sued Andrew, claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 and under the spell of paedophile financier Epstein. The duke settled out of court but has always vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for release in October, with the 400-page manuscript finished before Ms Giuffre took her own life.

The book contains 'intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, fellow sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew, about whom she speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022', publishers Alfred A Knopf said.

The announcement included an email to author-journalist Amy Wallace a few weeks before Ms Giuffre's death, saying that it was her 'heartfelt wish' the memoir be released 'regardless' of her circumstances.

Sent while Ms Giuffre was in hospital, following disputed claims that a car crash had left her with kidney failure, it said: 'The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders.

'It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.

'In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that Nobody's Girl is still released. I believe it has the potential to impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices.'

The email was sent on April 1. Ms Giuffre died, aged 41, on April 25.

More than three years after Prince Andrew, 65, finalised the civil case brought against him in New York for a reported £12 million, the allegations harking back to 2001 continue to dog him.

Ms Giuffre had long said she was flown from Florida to London by Epstein and Maxwell, a university friend of Andrew's. She alleged that, after a night at Mayfair hotspot Tramp, the pair had sex in Maxwell's mews home, where they had been photographed earlier that night.

There were two further allegations about trysts at Epstein's New York home and his private island in the Caribbean.

Ms Giuffre also made claims against other 'powerful and influential' men that Epstein pimped her out to.

Andrew, in the car-crash Newsnight interview that effectively ended his role as a working royal, denied ever meeting her.

In 2023, the New York Post reported that former masseuse Ms Giuffre had reached a deal 'believed to be worth millions' with an undisclosed publisher.

Knopf spokesman Todd Doughty said she initially agreed to a seven-figure contract with Penguin Press, the same publishers behind Prince Harry's memoir Spare, but moved when Knopf poached a Penguin executive.

Publisher and editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin called Nobody's Girl a 'raw and shocking' journey and 'the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break free'.

Ms Giuffre's time with Epstein has been well documented, although her accounts have been challenged. She acknowledged getting details wrong, errors she attributed to trying to recall events from years ago.

In 2022, she dropped allegations against attorney Alan Dershowitz, saying in a statement at the time that she may 'have made a mistake in identifying' him as an abuser.

Nobody's Girl was 'both vigorously fact-checked and legally vetted', the Knopf statement said.

It comes just days after the release of Maxwell's recent interview behind bars with the US Department of Justice. In it, she claimed it was Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and not herself who had introduced the duke to Epstein.

Ms Giuffre's family reacted with fury to the interview, accusing the US government of giving Maxwell a platform to 'rewrite history'.

In a statement to The Mail on Sunday, they said: 'We are outraged. During (the) bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history.

'This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security and lives on the line to ensure her conviction.'

Maxwell's interview is being seen as part of Donald Trump's attempts to shut down an outcry over a failure to release evidence around Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial after pleading not guilty to sex trafficking.

The US President was friendly with Epstein as the pair crossed paths regularly on the New York social and finance scenes.

Maxwell is seeking a pardon from Mr Trump and gave the interview from a tough Florida prison in July.

She was moved to a new minimum-security facility in Texas shortly afterwards. The White House said 'no leniency' was being given to her.