Virginia Giuffre claims she was sexually abused by her father as tell-all memoir poised for release
Prince Andrew and the royal family could face further embarrassment with the release of the posthumous book
Prince Andrew and the royal family could face further embarrassment with the release of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir - a book that documents sexual abuse by her father.
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The sexual abuse, reportedly at the hands of her father and a family friend, is documented in the memoir entitled 'Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice'.
In the memoir, set to be published on Tuesday, Ms Giuffre documents how she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell at the age of just 16 to work as a masseuse for late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41, with the abuse survivor explaining she was a “perfect victim” for the Epstein and Maxwell given her trauma.
The release comes as the Metropolitan Police said they would look into claims in the Mail on Sunday that Andrew had passed Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.
He is also said to have emailed the late Queen Elizabeth II’s then-deputy press secretary and told him of his request to his protection officer, and also suggested Ms Giuffre had a criminal record.
The allegations are the latest to emerge against the prince, who relinquished his dukedom and other honours on Friday, after excerpts from the posthumous autobiography of Ms Giuffre were released.
The book is to be published on Tuesday, a day before Charles begins a state visit to the Holy See, during which he will become the first British monarch to pray at a public service with the Pope since the Reformation.
“I know about monsters,” she wrote.
“As a child, I experienced nearly every kind of abuse: Incest, parental neglect, severe corporal punishment, molestation, rape."
“As a teen, I had been sexually trafficked by another paedophile even before I met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Her troubled teenage years were used by supporters of Epstein to cast doubt on her allegations of abuse at the hands of the billionaire.
The book documents her horrific abuse in the lead up to her taking up employment on Epstein's Island.
She goes on to describe how on one occasion, her father made her stand up in the bath so that he could clean between her legs.
“That night in my room, Dad touched me in ways nobody had before,” she wrote.
He told me I was his special girl, his favourite, and that this was his way of giving me “extra love”.
“He used his fingers at first. Then, days later, his mouth.”