Virginia Giuffre’s voice, silenced by suicide on April 25, 2025, at age 41, shattered Buckingham Palace’s fragile peace with a single line in her posthumous memoir: “Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright.” Published October 21, 2025, by Alfred A. Knopf and co-authored with Amy Wallace, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice indicts the royal as an “entitled” predator, mentioned 88 times across its 400 pages.
Giuffre recounts her 2001 recruitment at 16 from Mar-a-Lago, groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell into Epstein’s trafficking ring. The memoir details three alleged assaults by Andrew—in Maxwell’s London townhouse after a Tramp nightclub outing, Epstein’s New York mansion, and an orgy on Little Saint James with “eight other young girls” under 18. “He was friendly enough, but still entitled—as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” she writes, Epstein paying her $15,000 post-encounter. Andrew denies wrongdoing, but a 2011 email—“we are in this together”—contradicts his 2019 BBC Newsnight claim of severing ties in 2010.
The book’s release, a #1 New York Times bestseller, prompted Andrew’s Duke of York title relinquishment on October 17 and King Charles III’s full honors revocation by October 30. Palace sources report “days of pain ahead,” with #NobodysGirl trending globally (5.2 million X posts, 78% supportive). Giuffre’s unvarnished truth endures, challenging the impunity that once shielded her abusers.
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