In her posthumously published memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre shares a personal account of the story that made headlines worldwide: her accusations against Prince Andrew and years of alleged trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein.

“Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” was released on Tuesday. Guiffre died by suicide earlier this year.

Here are some key takeaways from the book:

More details about Prince Andrew

Giuffre’s book alleges that she had sex with Prince Andrew three times, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein. One time, she said, was part of an orgy involving around eight other girls.

“The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of eighteen and didn’t really speak English,” Giuffre said.

She said that, as her legal case progressed, Andrew made it difficult for her legal team to serve him papers by “fleeing to Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hiding behind its well-guarded gates.” Andrew denied her allegations.

But a turning point came with Andrew’s November 2019 interview on the BBC program Newsnight. He was widely criticized for seeming to lack empathy when asked about the accusations, and Giuffre says the interview “was like an injection of jet fuel” for her legal team.

“Its 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,” Giuffre wrote.

She said her settlement negotiations with Andrew began to move quickly after he hired American lawyer Andrew Brettler, who had worked with other public figures facing #MeToo allegations.

Brettler “was less reluctant than some of his British counterparts to face reality,” Giuffre wrote.

Giuffre said she and her team were asking for more than money as part of the settlement: They wanted an acknowledgement of what Giuffre had been through.

“After casting doubt on my credibility for so long — Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me — the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well. We would never get a confession, of course.”

The settlement was announced on Feb. 15, 2022, and Prince Andrew and Giuffre issued a joint statement which made clear he would pay Giuffre money, but didn’t specify the amount. It also said he would make a “substantial donation” in support of victims’ rights to Giuffre’s nonprofit organization. Andrew did not admit wrongdoing but said in court documents that he “regrets his association with Epstein.”

“I agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been,” Giuffre wrote.

Last week, ahead of the publication of Giuffre’s memoir, Prince Andrew announced he would no longer use his Duke of York title, after already having stepped back from royal duties in 2019.

Mar-a-Lago and a meeting with Trump

Before she first encountered Gislaine Maxwell and was brought into Epstein’s world, in 2000, Giuffre worked at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, alongside her father, who was a maintenance man responsible for the air conditioning units in hotel rooms, as well as the clay tennis courts.

“I remember he gave me a brief tour before presenting me to the hiring manager who — after I passed both a drug test and a polygraph — agreed to take me on,” Giuffre wrote. She said she met Mr. Trump a few days after starting work at the resort.

“They weren’t friends exactly. But Dad worked hard, and Trump liked that,” Giuffre said.

When she met Mr. Trump in his office, she said he “couldn’t have been friendlier, telling me it was fantastic I was there.”

He also asked if she babysat, Guiffre wrote, mentioning families with children who stayed in his properties nearby.

But it was also at Mar-a-Lago that Giuffre said she first met Ghislaine Maxwell.

“One steaming hot day some weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I was walking toward the Mar-a-Lago spa, on my way to work, when a car slowed behind me. I wish I could say that I sensed that something evil was tracking me, but as I headed into the building, I had no inkling of the danger I was in,” Giuffre said.

Maxwell jumped out of the car and introduced herself to Giuffre.

“I wish I could say that I saw through Maxwell’s polished facade — that, like a horse, I intuited the immense threat she posed to me. Instead, my first impression of Maxwell was the same one I formed when I greeted any well-heeled Mar-a-Lago guest. I’d be lucky, I thought, if I could grow up to be anything like her.”

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on federal charges including sex trafficking conspiracy, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein died in jail in 2019 after his arrest on sex trafficking charges.

Mr. Trump has denied knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell’s activities.

Giuffre’s message to the world

Giuffre writes about how the abuse she was subjected to affected her and how she dedicated herself to standing up those who harmed her and supporting others to do the same.

“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what Epstein was doing,” Guiffre said at the end of the book. “Anyone who spent any significant amount of time with Epstein saw him touching girls in ways you wouldn’t want a creepy old man touching your daughter. They can say they didn’t know he was raping children. But they were not blind. (Not to mention the fact that many prominent people were still associating with him years after).”

Though it was difficult, Guiffre said she was glad she had worked to share her story.

“I don’t regret it, but the constant telling and retelling has been extremely painful and exhausting,” she said.

Guiffre leaves readers with this message:

“I hope my story has moved you — to seek ways to free yourself from a bad situation, say, to stand up for someone else in need, or to simply reframe how you judge victims of sexual abuse. Each one of us can make positive change. I truly believe that. I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else. I yearn, too, for a world in which perpetrators face more shame than their victims do and where anyone who’s been trafficked can confront their abusers when they are ready, no matter how much time has passed. We don’t live in this world yet. …  If this book moves us even an inch closer to a reality like that — if it helps just one person — I will have achieved my goal.”

Virginia Giuffre was still haunted by the “hungry ghosts” of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell decades after she escaped their “house of shame”, her posthumous memoir reveals.

Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse that readers may find distressing.

Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at her property in Neergabby, about 80 kilometres north of Perth, was a prominent accuser of Epstein.

She had long alleged she was trafficked for sex to Prince Andrew by Epstein when she was a teenager.

Her memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is a harrowing account of a woman familiar with “monsters”, who wanted to be portrayed authentically.

In the 367-page book, Giuffre tells the story of her abuse, which allegedly began at the hands of her father and a family friend when she was young.

Her father, Sky William Roberts, denied the allegations.

Deemed “out of control” by her mother, who Giuffre alleged became “cold and remote” after the abuse by her father began, she was sent, as a teen, to a “tough-love treatment centre” until she ran away.

That led her to an “old man with a limousine” who claimed to own a modelling agency, groomed her with gifts and eventually trafficked her to a friend of his.

But it was her experiences with Epstein and Maxwell, “a molester with posh manners and an aristocratic pedigree” that continued to haunt her in vivid flashbacks.

She wrote that she still “feared them both”.

Excerpts of the book published by UK media last week included Giuffre’s allegations about being trafficked to Prince Andrew, who, she wrote was “entitled, as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright”.

In the memoir Giuffre claimed that just before she met Prince Andrew in March 2001, when she was 17 years old, she was told by Maxwell in a singsongy voice that “just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince!”

Upon meeting the royal, Giuffre recalled Maxwell telling him to guess her age.

The prince, who was then 41, “guessed correctly” that she was 17, Giuffre said.

“My daughters are just a little younger than you,” she remembered him saying.

She also detailed three separate occasions when she had sex with the prince, who she called Andy, in meetings that have been reported in previous witness statements and accounts.

The royal has previously denied Guiffre’s accusations that he forced her to have sex more than two decades ago.

A settlement was reached in February 2022 in a civil case brought by Giuffre against Prince Andrew.

Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.

On Friday, local time, Prince Andrew announced he had given up his royal titles and membership of the Order of the Garter after concluding that the “continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family”.

“I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” he added.

Amy Wallace, who ghostwrote the memoir, said that Giuffre would be pleased that Prince Andrew could no longer use titles and honours.

“I know that she would view it as a victory, that he was forced by whatever means to voluntarily give them up,” she told the BBC.

“And it’s also just a step in the right direction — you know, Virginia wanted all the men who she’d been trafficked to against her will to be held to account.

“And this is just one of the men, but he is being forced to, even though he continues to deny it.

“His life is being eroded because of his past behaviour.”

On the eve of the publication of the memoir, the British government faced calls to formally remove Prince Andrew’s titles.

It has so far resisted them, even as the book brings fresh scrutiny to the prince.

Worst thing Maxwell and Epstein did was ‘psychological’

The memoir goes into some detail about Giuffre’s early childhood and teen years before she recalls being spotted by Maxwell, whose accent reminded her of Mary Poppins, while reading a book at Mar-a-Lago one morning.

She claimed Maxwell invited her over to the “Pink House” for an interview, an offer she accepted in the belief it would lead to big things.

She was then ushered into a room asked to give a naked Epstein a massage.

Giuffre said she did so under the instruction of Maxwell, who took her clothes off and undressed Giuffre before they sexually abused her.

“Is sex all anyone will ever want from me?” Giuffre remembered thinking.

It was the beginning of an ordeal she claimed saw her suffer abuse by a web of rich and powerful people, many of whom were believed to be Epstein associates.

“In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people,” Giuffre wrote.

“I was habitually used and humiliated and, in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.

Giuffre claimed that the worst thing Epstein and Maxwell did to her “weren’t physical, but psychological”.

“From the start, they manipulated me into participating in behaviours that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself,” she wrote.

In one account Giuffre recalls Epstein’s callous reaction to how terrorised she felt after being “brutalised” by a “former minister,” who choked her and left her bleeding.

“Epstein cared only about Epstein,” she wrote.

Giuffre recalls alleged ‘orgy’ with Prince Andrew

In the memoir, which is interspersed with some lighter recollections of her life with her children, Giuffre recalled the moments leading up to the infamous photo of her with Prince Andrew and Maxwell.

She said she had the thought that her mother would never forgive her if she did not pose for a picture with someone so famous.

“I remember the prince putting his arm around my waist as Maxwell grinned beside me. Epstein snapped the photo,” Giuffre wrote.

That night she attended London’s Tramp nightclub with Epstein, Maxwell and the royal, who invited her to dance and “sweated profusely”.

“When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey,” Giuffre wrote that Maxwell told her in the car on the way to her place.

Back at the house, Maxwell and Epstein went upstairs, “signalling it was time that I take care of the prince”.

Giuffre wrote the pair had sex.

“He was friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” she wrote.

The next morning, Maxwell told her: “You did well. The prince had fun.”

Giuffre claimed she had sex with Andrew on two other occasions — at the townhouse in New York and on Epstein’s island in an “orgy” with “approximately eight other young girls”.

“The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English,” she wrote.

Years later, Giuffre recalled stumbling upon a photo of Epstein walking in New York’s Central Park with Prince Andrew.

The picture, taken by former British tabloid News of the World, was published in February 2011.

Giuffre wrote that by then “everyone knew that Epstein, though he’d gotten off with a light sentence, was a convicted sex offender”.

In 2008 Epstein was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a person under the age of 18.

“I was of course revolted to see two of my abusers together, out for a stroll,” Giuffre wrote.

She also touched on the confidential settlement she reached with Prince Andrew in 2022, after she had filed a lawsuit against him in New York State.

She had pushed ahead with it in the hope he gave “a general acknowledgement of what I’d been through”.

She claimed that after “casting doubt on my credibility for so long”, Prince Andrew’s team “had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me”.

“The Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well,” she wrote.

Allegations of abuse at home

In the memoir, there are allegations that Giuffre was sexually abused by her father.

Giuffre grew up in Florida after she was born in 1983 and wrote that she had a modest early childhood with her mother and father, until it took a turn.

“When I began working with a collaborator on this book, I had never said publicly that my father molested me and then gave me to another man to molest,” she wrote.

Giuffre alleged the abuse began when her father, who she said called her his “favourite”, began getting her ready for bed.

She accused him of touching her inappropriately and claimed he told her this was his way of giving her “extra love”.

In an effort to stop the abuse from happening, Giuffre wrote that she told her father she could bathe herself and began hiding under the bed to avoid his attention.

The abuse got worse when she was introduced to “Forrest”, a friend of her father’s, who she said also assaulted her.

Mr Roberts denied the allegations in a note sent to the book’s ghostwriter.

“Just to straighten this out, I never abused my daughter and didn’t know that Forrest did that either,” he said, according to the book.

“If I had known about that, I would have been very angry and taken care of the situation.”

Before she died, Giuffre told Wallace it was her “heartfelt wish” that the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.

“Two things made Virginia’s memoir different,” Wallace notes in the book.

“First, the stories she needed to share were devastating beyond measure for her to tell.

After Guiffre’s death earlier this year, Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for dozens of Epstein abuse survivors, described her as “an incredible champion for other victims”.

Those that knew Guiffre remembered her as “deeply loving, wise, and funny”.

Merck on Monday announced the groundbreaking of its new Virginia pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, a cornerstone of the company’s $70 billion U.S. investment strategy.

The 400,000-square-foot site in Elkton, Virginia, is expected to create 500 full-time positions once operational and generate roughly 8,000 construction jobs during development.

As one of the largest pharmaceutical investments of President Donald Trump’s second term, Merck’s push comes as the administration is prioritizing making pharmaceuticals domestically and reducing dependence on foreign drug production.

“We always will work with the U.S. administration to make sure that we remain, in America, a prime leader in innovation,” Sanat Chattopadhyay, executive vice president and president of Merck’s manufacturing division told FOX Business. “At the same time, do the best we can for our customers through investment in U. S. manufacturing.”

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The new plant will expand U.S. production of vaccines and critical medicines, including active pharmaceutical ingredients and new small-molecule manufacturing and testing capacity. Merck executives say the site will serve as a key hub for next-generation therapeutics beyond the company’s well-established oncology and vaccine portfolio.

Merck CEO Robert Davis called the groundbreaking “an important milestone for Merck, for Virginia, for manufacturing in the United States and, most importantly, for the patients we serve.” He said the investment “helps advance our goal of providing new, innovative treatment options for people facing serious health challenges in the U.S. and around the world.”

The announcement coincides with the White House’s renewed “Made in America” pharmaceutical push.

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“The pharmaceuticals are coming back,” Trump told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “China has been eating our lunch. Now, 90% of the pharmaceuticals that we need, underlying components, are made in China.”

Trump added that new tariffs are helping drive production back to U.S. soil.

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“I’m putting tariffs on pharmaceuticals, unless they’re made here, they’re all coming back,” Trump said.

The Elkton expansion marks Merck’s fourth major U.S. manufacturing project this year, with similar facilities under construction in Delaware, North Carolina and Kansas.

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Together, Merck’s expansion plan is expected to create more than 48,000 construction-related jobs by 2029.

Between now and 2028, Merck anticipates most construction will be completed, with manufacturing beginning in 2029 and supply operations launching in 2030, according to Dave Moraldo, Merck’s senior vice president of human health manufacturing.

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“We’re continuing to look forward to partnering with the Trump administration around policy that promotes and fosters and protects innovation while continuing to position the U.S. pharmaceutical industry as a center of biopharmaceutical innovation,” Moraldo told FOX Business.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin praised the move as “a monumental step forward for Virginia’s life-sciences sector,” saying it solidifies the state’s role as a national leader in advanced manufacturing and healthcare innovation.