Virginia Giuffrie has claimed that Prince Andrew hired a team of online trolls to try and hassle her in the latest revelation from her explosive posthumous memoir.
The latest revelations come as the Duke of York was stripped of his titles following increasing pressure over his links with Jeffrey Epstein.
‘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,’ Virginia wrote.
Giuffre watched Prince Andrew’s car crash interview with Emily Maitlis where he claimed to be in Pizza Express in Woking with great interest.
Andrew also insisted her claims couldn’t be true of him sweating all over her at Tramp nightclub because he was couldn’t sweat after getting an overdose of adrenaline in the Navy.
‘We would never get a confession, of course. That’s what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgment of what I’d been through.’
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She wrote: ‘As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel. 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.’
‘Did he really take Beatrice out for pizza on March 10, 2001, as he claimed? If we deposed the princesses, his family members could potentially poke holes in his alibi. Would his medical records really show that he had a temporary case of anhidrosis (a lack of perspiration), which typically isn’t a response to adrenaline? We weren’t quite ready to sue yet, but this interview gave us a lot more to work with than we’d had before.’
Titled ‘Nobody’s Girl,’ the bombshell book contains ‘intimate and disturbing’ details of her time with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as many of their friends – including Queen Elizabeth’s second son.
In the book, she called Prince Andrew ‘entitled’ and claimed he thought having sex with her was his ‘birthright’.
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Virginia, who died in April aged 41, made the revelations in ‘Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’, which she finished writing before her death.
Within the 400-page book, she also says the Duke of York said ‘thank you’ in a ‘clipped British accent’ after having sex with her.
Giuffre also revealed how she lost a baby just four days after flying back from an alleged ‘orgy’ with Prince Andrew and eight other girls.
She wrote: ‘I don’t know exactly when I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the location: Little Saint Jeff’s.
‘I also know it was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy.’
She added that the incident happened with ‘Andy and approximately eight other girls’ who did not speak English.
The Metropolitan Police said they are looking into claims that Andrew had passed Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.
He is also said to have emailed the late Queen Elizabeth II’s then-deputy press secretary and told him of his request to his protection officer, and also suggested Giuffre had a criminal record.
In a statement released by Buckingham Palace, Andrew said the decision was made after a discussion with the King and his immediate and wider family.
‘I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life,’ he said.
‘With His Majesty’s agreement, we feel I must now go a step further. I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me. As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me.’
Virginia, a mum-of-three, was found dead at her home in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for the past several years.
The publishers said she completed the manuscript only 25 days before her death.