Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most courageous accusers, repeatedly alleged that Prince Andrew sexually exploited her on three separate occasions in 2001 when she was just 17—a minor trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In her accounts, royal privilege transformed into a private nightmare, where status and power shielded the duke from immediate consequences for years.
Giuffre first detailed the encounters in court filings, depositions, and her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl (October 2025). The initial assault allegedly occurred in March 2001 at Maxwell’s London townhouse after a night out at Tramp nightclub. Giuffre described being dressed up like “Cinderella” to meet the “handsome prince.” Andrew, then 41, correctly guessed her age, yet, she claimed, later had sex with her in the bathroom after running him a bath. The infamous photograph—Andrew’s arm around her waist, Maxwell grinning nearby—captured that evening.
The second alleged exploitation took place weeks later at Epstein’s sprawling Manhattan mansion, where Giuffre said she was again directed to satisfy the royal. The third, she claimed, was part of an “orgy” on Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, involving Andrew, Epstein, herself, and approximately eight other young girls who appeared underage and spoke little English.
Throughout her testimony, Giuffre portrayed Andrew as relaxed and entitled, behaving as though intimacy with a trafficked teenager was simply another perk of his position. “He believed having sex with me was his birthright,” she wrote in her memoir, describing how Maxwell praised her afterward and Epstein paid her $15,000 for “servicing” the man tabloids called “Randy Andy.”
Andrew has always vehemently denied the allegations, stating he has no recollection of meeting Giuffre and insisting the claims are false. He settled her 2021 civil lawsuit in February 2022 with a reported multimillion-pound payment and donation to her charity—without any admission of liability. The out-of-court agreement spared a public trial but cost him military titles, patronages, and royal duties.
Giuffre, who tragically died by suicide in April 2025 at age 41, carried the weight of these experiences until her final days. Her unflinching accusations exposed how royal privilege could allegedly intersect with Epstein’s predatory world, turning what should have been protection into exploitation. Though legally resolved, her voice endures, challenging the powerful and reminding the world that no title grants immunity from accountability.
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