Virginia Giuffre is publishing her memoir — a yr after agreeing to a multimillion-dollar settlement with Prince Andrew in her intercourse abuse lawsuit towards the royal.
Ms Giuffre (nee Roberts), who has lengthy alleged she was trafficked and abused as a young person by the late Jeffrey Epstein, has signed a e book deal believed to be price tens of millions, a number of sources confirmed to the New York Post. It’s not but identified which writer has gained the rights.
Confirmation of the Giuffre deal comes amid stories that Prince Andrew needs to launch a authorized bid to reclaim the estimated $US12 million ($16.9 million) settlement they signed in February 2022, which he partly funded by promoting his $US22 million ($31 million) Swiss chalet.
It was reported that the late Queen Elizabeth’s second son — who misplaced his HRH title and all public duties after it was alleged that he had intercourse with Ms Giuffre when she was 17 — thinks he has a shot after Ms Giuffre not too long ago dropped her lawsuit towards lawyer Alan Dershowitz, wherein she accused him of sexual abuse.
Reps for each Prince Andrew and Ms Giuffre have been unavailable for remark, however authorized sources pressured that it might be difficult for the prince to launch authorized motion, with one telling The Post: “It would be very difficult to overturn.”
Despite agreeing to the payout, Prince Andrew didn’t admit any wrongdoing and has constantly and vehemently denied the claims.
As a part of the settlement, the disgraced royal, 62, and Ms Giuffre, 39, are believed to have signed a one-year settlement that meant neither of them may publicly focus on the case or their settlement.
However, sources within the know say that it’s unlikely she can be allowed to write down about Prince Andrew or their settlement.
Despite this, royal insiders advised The Post that any e book from Ms Giuffre can be a humiliation for the royal household, notably on the heels of Prince Harry’s Spare and as King Charles — Andrew’s older brother — is getting ready to rejoice his coronation on May 6. One insider stated, “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 doc — known as Giuffre’s “memoir” — have been first unsealed in August 2019 amid a batch of courtroom data associated to her lawsuit towards Epstein’s former lover, Ghislaine Maxwell, which settled in May 2017.
That memoir, known as The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, detailed Ms Giuffre’s life as a young person inside Epstein’s alleged intercourse ring, the place she claimed she was compelled to have intercourse with Epstein and Maxwell on command.
She alleged she was additionally advised to sleep with Epstein’s highly effective mates, together with Prince Andrew and former senator and Disney chairman George Mitchell. Mitchell has denied any involvement with both Epstein or Giuffre.
In the 139-page exposé, which was by no means revealed, Ms Giuffre described how Maxwell scouted her whereas she was working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Beach, Florida. Maxwell invited her to audition for a job as a masseuse — then groomed her for intercourse work, in accordance with Ms Giuffre.
But Ms Giuffre additionally alleged that Maxwell herself participated in intercourse acts and performed a key position in manipulating the women.
Maxwell was arrested by the FBI in July 2020 and accused of taking part within the sexual abuse of underage women and of sex-trafficking minors.
She was discovered responsible 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 going through prices of trafficking underage women for intercourse on the time of his demise.
The post-mortem concluded his explanation for demise was suicide by hanging, though the 66-year-old’s sudden demise fuelled widespread controversy and conspiracy theories.
Maxwell, now 61, didn’t apologise to her victims — saying they need to take their “disappointment and upset” out on the US authorities who had “allowed” Epstein to die. She additionally claimed she had no reminiscence of her “dear friend” Prince Andrew ever assembly Ms Giuffre.
This article initially appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
Originally revealed as Prince Andrew faces new embarrassment with accuser Virginia Giuffre ‘to write tell-all memoir’
