Noor Nanji,Culture reporter and
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Virginia Giuffre, seen here holding a picture of herself as a teenager, took her own life earlier this year
Virginia Giuffre says she feared she might “die a sex slave” at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle, her posthumous memoir reveals.
The BBC has obtained a full copy of Nobody’s Girl, written by the prominent accuser of convicted sex offender Epstein, ahead of its publication on Tuesday – almost six months after she took her own life.
In the memoir, Ms Giuffre also says she had sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions, including once with Epstein and approximately eight other young women.
Prince Andrew, who reached a financial settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, has always denied any wrongdoing.
The memoir, which the BBC bought from a book store in central London days before its official release, paints a picture of a web of rich and powerful people abusing young women.
At the centre of the abuse was Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges.
Ms Giuffre says that even decades later, she remembers how much she feared them both.
Much of the book makes for extremely harrowing reading, as Ms Giuffre details the sadistic abuse that Epstein put her through.
She says Epstein subjected her to sadomasochistic sex which caused her “so much pain that I prayed I would black out”.
A Buckingham Palace source told BBC News they accept there could be “more days of pain ahead” as a result of the publication of the book, which puts Prince Andrew under further scrutiny.
The King’s engagements this week include a visit to the Vatican, where he will pray alongside the Pope.
On Friday, Prince Andrew announced that he was voluntarily deciding not to use his titles including the Duke of York, an honour received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
He is also giving up membership of the Order of the Garter – the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.
In his statement, he said: “I vigorously deny the accusations against me.”
While Andrew – who remains a prince as son of a monarch – will no longer be using his titles, a small number of MPs are calling for them to be officially removed from him.
They include Rachael Maskell, Independent MP for York Central, and Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster.
Maskell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that it was “incredibly strange that you can give a title, but you can’t remove a title”. She argued a simple, single clause would give a monarch the powers to do this for any titles, including peerages.
Flynn said there was “no justification” for the UK government not to take action to remove Andrew’s titles.
“The family of Virginia Giuffre, whose life was destroyed, are angry and aghast,” he said, adding: “The public across these isles are angry and aghast and th
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