The book\u2019s claims will heap further embarrassment on the Prince who was forced to relinquish his Dukedom<\/a> on Friday to avoid inflicting further damage on the Royal family.<\/p>\n It describes how Prince Andrew\u2019s disastrous Newsnight interview<\/a> provided ammunition for her civil suit.<\/p>\n The Prince reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre on Feb 15 2022.<\/p>\n Giuffre claimed she was sexually abused or raped by Prince Andrew on three separate occasions when she was 17. She sued him for unspecified damages.<\/p>\n Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell – AFP<\/p>\n The Prince denied all the allegations and the settlement included no admission of guilt<\/a>, but Giuffre said his acknowledgement of the abuse suffered by Epstein\u2019s victims brought tears to her eyes.<\/p>\n \u201cI agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the Prince because it ensured that his mother\u2019s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n The Prince was reportedly intent on clearing his name, even as headlines about the case threatened to overshadow his mother\u2019s big year.<\/p>\n The settlement meant Giuffre was silenced, barred from discussing the abuse she suffered at the hands of Epstein, throughout the late Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee celebrations<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n Prince Andrew did not attend his mother\u2019s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022 – Chris Jackson\/2022 Getty Images<\/p>\n Giuffre finished writing Nobody\u2019s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice in October last year. She took her own life<\/a> six months later.<\/p>\n Her book describes how she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> to work for Epstein at the age of 16.<\/p>\n Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence for procuring underage girls for Epstein.<\/p>\n Epstein was arrested in 2019 and charged with running a sex trafficking network involving dozens of underage girls at his homes in New York and Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n He died by suicide before he could face trial.<\/p>\n The book sets out Giuffre\u2019s allegations that she was trafficked to a string of rich and powerful men.<\/p>\n She describes her astonishment that Prince Andrew was photographed in public with the financier in 2010, after he served a sentence for sex crimes, including procuring a child for prostitution.<\/p>\n Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured together in 2010 – Jae Donnelly<\/p>\n And it details her legal battle with the Prince after suing him for unspecified damages in 2021.<\/p>\n Her case, she said, built on some of the claims he made in his 2019 Newsnight interview when he said he did not remember ever meeting Giuffre.<\/p>\n The interview was a public relations disaster<\/a> for the member of the Royal family.<\/p>\n The Prince said he was with one of his daughters at the Woking branch of Pizza Express on the night Giuffre claimed to have first been trafficked to him, and that he could not have been seen dancing sweatily with her at a nightclub because he had temporarily lost the ability to perspire because of an \u201coverdose of adrenaline\u201d during his service during the Falklands War.<\/p>\n \u201cAs devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel,\u201d Giuffre wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cIts contents would not only help us build an ironclad case against the Prince but also open the door to potentially subpoenaing his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe world didn\u2019t know it, but settlement discussions with Prince Andrew\u2019s team were suddenly moving quickly,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter he\u2019d stonewalled us for months, the scheduling of his deposition, which was to take place on March 10, seemed to motivate him.\u201d<\/p>\n The Prince during his 2019 Newsnight interview<\/p>\n In January of that year, Buckingham Palace announced it had stripped Prince Andrew of all military titles and patronages.<\/p>\n A month later the settlement was announced. It reportedly included a $12m payout along with a $2m donation to her charity.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019d gotten more out of him than that: An acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Her memoir details each of her three alleged encounters with the Prince and her shock at seeing a photograph of him years later strolling through Central Park together.<\/p>\n \u201cI was of course revolted to see two of my abusers together, out for a stroll,\u201d writes Giuffre, who finished the book six months before she took her own life in Australia, aged 41.<\/p>\n![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6066ee0af3d75b11d02761e986bea391.jpeg\"\/)
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