Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre signs memoir deal worth ‘millions’: sources

Virginia Giuffre is publishing her memoir — a yr after agreeing to a multimillion-dollar settlement with Prince Andrew in her sex-abuse lawsuit in opposition to the royal, The Put up can reveal.

Giuffre (née Roberts), who has lengthy alleged she was trafficked and abused as a teen by the late Jeffrey Epstein, has signed a e book deal believed to be price tens of millions, a number of sources verify. It’s not but identified which writer has received the rights.

Affirmation of the Giuffre deal comes amid studies that Prince Andrew desires to launch a authorized bid to reclaim the estimated $12 million settlement they signed in February 2022, which he partly funded by promoting his $22 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 Giuffre when she was 17 — thinks he has a shot after Giuffre not too long ago dropped her lawsuit in opposition to lawyer Alan Dershowitz, during which she accused him of sexual abuse.

Reps for each Andrew and Giuffre have been unavailable for remark, however authorized sources careworn that it could be difficult for the prince to launch authorized motion, with one telling The Put up: “It will be very tough to overturn.”

Regardless of agreeing to the payout, 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 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.

Nevertheless, sources within the know say that it’s unlikely she shall be allowed to put in writing about Prince Andrew or their settlement.

Regardless of this, royal insiders instructed The Put up that any e book from Giuffre shall 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 making ready to rejoice his coronation on Could 6. One insider stated, “Andrew goes to clearly be invited to the coronation, though he is not going to be invited onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace. However the palace will need as little drama as doable, so that is horrible timing.”

Pages from a doc — known as Giuffre’s “memoir” — have been first unsealed in August 2019 amid a batch of court docket information associated to her lawsuit in opposition to Epstein’s former lover, Ghislaine Maxwell, which settled in Could 2017.

That memoir, known as “The Billionaire’s Playboy Membership,” detailed Giuffre’s life as a teen inside Epstein’s alleged intercourse ring, the place she claimed she was pressured to have intercourse with Epstein and Maxwell on command.

She alleged she was additionally instructed 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.

Within the 139-page exposé, which was by no means printed, Giuffre described how Maxwell scouted her whereas she was working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida. Maxwell invited her to audition for a job as a masseuse — then groomed her for intercourse work, based on Giuffre.

However Giuffre additionally alleged that Maxwell herself participated in intercourse acts and performed a key function 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 dealing with fees 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 fueled widespread controversy and conspiracy theories.

Maxwell, now 61, did not apologize 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 “pricey buddy” Prince Andrew ever assembly Giuffre.