Prince Andrew faces new embarrassment with accuser Virginia Giuffre ‘to write tell-all memoir’

Prince Andrew faces new embarrassment amid reports his accuser Virginia Giuffre has signed a deal to write a tell-all memoir.

Virginia Giuffre is publishing her memoir — a year after agreeing to a multimillion-dollar settlement with Prince Andrew in her sex abuse lawsuit against the royal.

Ms Giuffre (nee Roberts), who has long alleged she was trafficked and abused as a teenager by the late Jeffrey Epstein, has signed a book deal believed to be worth millions, multiple sources confirmed to the New York Post. It’s not yet known which publisher has won the rights.

Confirmation of the Giuffre deal comes amid reports that Prince Andrew wants to launch a legal bid to reclaim the estimated $US12 million ($16.9 million) settlement they signed in February 2022, which he partly funded by selling his $US22 million ($31 million) Swiss chalet.

Virginia Giuffre is believed to have signed a deal to write a tell-all memoir, a year after her multimillion-dollar settlement with Prince Andrew. Picture: Steve Parsons and Ben Gabbe / various sources / AFP) /

It was reported that the late Queen Elizabeth’s second son — who lost his HRH title and all public duties after it was alleged that he had sex with Ms Giuffre when she was 17 — thinks he has a shot after Ms Giuffre recently dropped her lawsuit against lawyer Alan Dershowitz, in which she accused him of sexual abuse.

Reps for both Prince Andrew and Ms Giuffre were unavailable for comment, but legal sources stressed that it would be challenging for the prince to launch legal action, with one telling The Post: “It would be very difficult to overturn.”

Despite agreeing to the payout, Prince Andrew did not admit any wrongdoing and has consistently and vehemently denied the claims.

As part of the settlement, the disgraced royal, 62, and Ms Giuffre, 39, are believed to have signed a one-year agreement that meant neither of them could publicly discuss the case or their settlement.

The infamous photo of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, taken in 2001. Picture: US District Court – Southern District of New York / AFP

However, sources in the know say that it’s unlikely she will be allowed to write about Prince Andrew or their settlement.

Despite this, royal insiders told The Post that any book from Ms Giuffre will be an embarrassment for the royal family, particularly on the heels of Prince Harry’s Spare and as King Charles — Andrew’s older brother — is preparing to celebrate his coronation on May 6. One insider said, “Andrew is going to obviously be invited to the coronation, although he will not be invited onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace. But the palace will want as little drama as possible, so this is terrible timing.”

Pages from a document — referred to as Giuffre’s “memoir” — were first unsealed in August 2019 amid a batch of court records related to her lawsuit against Epstein’s former lover, Ghislaine Maxwell, which settled in May 2017.

That memoir, called The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, detailed Ms Giuffre’s life as a teenager inside Epstein’s alleged sex ring, where she claimed she was forced to have sex with Epstein and Maxwell on command.

Pages from a document — referred to as Giuffre’s ‘memoir’ — were first unsealed with records related to her lawsuit against Maxwell. Picture: BBC

She alleged she was also told to sleep with Epstein’s powerful friends, including Prince Andrew and former senator and Disney chairman George Mitchell. Mitchell has denied any involvement with either Epstein or Giuffre.

In the 139-page exposé, which was never published, Ms Giuffre described how Maxwell scouted her while she was working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Maxwell invited her to audition for a job as a masseuse — then groomed her for sex work, according to Ms Giuffre.

But Ms Giuffre also alleged that Maxwell herself participated in sex acts and played a key role in manipulating the girls.

Maxwell was arrested by the FBI in July 2020 and accused of participating in the sexual abuse of underage girls and of sex-trafficking minors.

Ghislaine Maxwell and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Picture: Laura Cavanaugh and Handout / various sources / AFP

She was found guilty and is serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida jail. In a wide-ranging TalkTV interview from behind bars this week, Maxwell claimed that Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in August 2019, had been murdered. Epstein was facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex at the time of his death.

The autopsy concluded his cause of death was suicide by hanging, although the 66-year-old’s sudden demise fuelled widespread controversy and conspiracy theories.

Maxwell, now 61, failed to apologise to her victims — saying they should take their “disappointment and upset” out on the US authorities who had “allowed” Epstein to die. She also claimed she had no memory of her “dear friend” Prince Andrew ever meeting Ms Giuffre.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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