Much of Virginia Giuffre’s story was already known, but her posthumously published memoir describes what she faced in gruesome detail.
The BBC obtained a copy of the book two days before its official release.
The memoir reveals details of Juffre’s encounters with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Jislen Maxwell, as well as more information about her allegations against Prince Andrew, which he has always denied.
Here’s what we learnt from this 367-page book.
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The allegations against Prince Andrew and the orgies
In the memoir, Giuffre claims she had sex with Prince Andrew three times.
Thirdly, she says it took place on a private island owned by Epstein. Giuffre called what he claimed any wrongdoing.
In a 2019 interview with the BBC, he said he had no recollection of meeting Giuffre and that they “never had sexual contact”.
“Epstein told me I had a miscarriage”.
Giuffré writes that after this alleged “orgy” she was “not in the best of health.” She had irregular bleeding and abdominal pain.
She claims that Epstein took her to the hospital, where she remembers being taken to an examination room. However, she does not remember what happened next due to the painkillers affecting her memory.
Soon after, she writes, one of the other girls at Epstein’s house suggested that a scar near her navel could mean she had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.
“But Epstein told me I had a miscarriage, which is different,” rhyming with whips, lashing and other instruments of torture.”
“Session after session he acted out various fantasies in which I was the victim,” she writes.
Giuffré claims that the chains and other devices he used “caused such pain that I prayed to faint.” But she adds, “When it happened, I regained consciousness, and I got it again.”
Giuffre also details the physical effects of such abuse: dark circles under her eyes and ribs appearing under her skin.
Instead of offering her help, Epstein was resentful of her appearance, she says.
“You’re not the girl you used to be,” Epstein said coldly. “You need to clean up your act,” she writes in the book.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s role
Giuffre details how she claims that when she arrived at the house, she was taken to a room where Epstein was lying completely naked on a massage table. “Just do what I do,” Maxwell told her.
According to Giuffre, she began giving Epstein a massage, then Maxwell undressed, removed her clothes, and she and Epstein sexually assaulted her.
” The frustration was unbearable. I blamed myself. “Is sex all anyone ever wanted?” – she writes.
She later describes how Maxwell introduced her to Prince Andrew in March 2001.
She writes that Maxwell woke her up and told her it would be a “special day” – that she, “like Cinderella,” would meet "a handsome prince.”
Dali Giuffre writes that even decades later, she remembers how much she feared both Epstein and Maxwell.
Disappointment over Epstein’s death
Another theme that runs through the book is Giuffre’s quest for justice.
Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 for molesting a person under the age of 18. He died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sexual exploitation charges.
Giuffre describes his disappointment at his death. “Justice was not supposed to work this way,” she says.
As for Prince Andrew, she recalls standing outside the courtroom and telling reporters, “He knows exactly what he did … and I hope he admits it.”
She later writes that she hopes Andrew, who has always denied involvement in the violence, will be eager for accountability.
Giuffre may have left the strongest words at the end of the book.
“In my mind’s eye, I see a girl who asks for help and finds it easily,” Giuffré writes. “I imagine a woman who, coming to terms with the pain of her childhood, feels she has the power to take action against those who hurt her. If this book brings us one centimetre closer to that reality, if it helps even one person, I have achieved my goal.”
In April 2025, Virginia Giuffre committed suicide at the age of 41.