3 Highly Disturbing Trafficking Claims Virginia Giuffre Made Against Prince Andrew

Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at the age of 41. She was a mother of three. She was also the woman who did what no one else could. She named Prince Andrew publicly, sued him, and forced the world to look at what the British royal family wanted buried. On February 19, 2026, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested.

Everything that follows comes from Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl, written with Amy Wallace. We also link to sworn declarations, and reputable third-party sources to add further context to the claims. Prince Andrew has denied all of them.

London. March 2001.

On the morning of March 10, 2001, Ghislaine Maxwell shook a seventeen-year-old girl awake and told her she was going to meet a prince.

The girl’s name was Virginia Giuffre. The prince was Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II. He was forty-one.

Maxwell took Giuffre shopping that morning. A Burberry purse. Three outfits. That evening, Prince Andrew arrived at Maxwell’s London townhouse for dinner. Maxwell introduced Giuffre using the name “Jenna” and told Andrew to guess her age. According to Giuffre, he guessed correctly. Seventeen. He noted his own daughters were only slightly younger.

Maxwell’s alleged response: “I guess we will have to trade her in soon.”

Giuffre asked Epstein to photograph her with the prince. She describes Andrew placing his arm around her waist while Maxwell stood beside them, grinning. Epstein took the shot on a disposable Kodak camera. It was developed three days later at a one-hour photo shop in West Palm Beach. That photograph would become one of the most scrutinized images in modern British history.

After dinner, the group went to Tramp, an exclusive London nightclub. Giuffre alleges Andrew bought her a cocktail, invited her to dance, and sweated heavily while doing so. This detail matters. Andrew would later go on national television and claim he could not have sweated at that nightclub because of a medical condition he attributed to an adrenaline overdose during the Falklands War, nearly two decades earlier.

On the car ride home, Giuffre states Maxwell gave her an instruction: “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”

Giuffre describes drawing Andrew a bath. Then having sex with him. She was seventeen years old. The encounter lasted less than thirty minutes. The next morning, Maxwell told her: “You did well. The prince had fun.”

Giuffre states Epstein paid her $15,000.

New York. April 2001.

Approximately one month later, Giuffre alleges a second encounter at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. Another alleged victim, Johanna Sjoberg, was also present.

Maxwell had a gift for the prince. A puppet. It had a tag that read “Prince Andrew.”

Maxwell arranged a group photograph. The puppet was placed in Giuffre’s lap with its hand positioned on her breast. Sjoberg was placed on Andrew’s lap, and according to Giuffre, Andrew put his hand on Sjoberg’s breast.

Giuffre wrote about the scene in her memoir: “Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.”

She states she was sent to a bedroom afterward, where she had sex with Andrew for a second time. She was still seventeen.

Little Saint James. Summer 2001.

The third alleged encounter is even more disturbing.

Giuffre stated in a 2015 sworn declaration that on Epstein’s private island, she, Epstein, Andrew, and approximately eight other young girls had sex together. She stated the other girls appeared to be under eighteen and did not speak English. Epstein allegedly laughed about the language barrier, saying they were “the easiest girls to get along with.” Giuffre states Epstein told her the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel had supplied them.

Pilot David Rodgers later testified in a deposition that a coded notation in his flight log for July 4, 2001, “AP,” referred to Prince Andrew. His testimony placed Epstein, the prince, Giuffre, and another woman on a flight from Saint Thomas to Palm Beach that day.

What Andrew Said About All of This

In a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew said he had no recollection of ever meeting Virginia Giuffre. “None whatsoever.”

He claimed that on March 10, 2001, he was taking his daughter Princess Beatrice out for pizza. He claimed he could not have sweated at Tramp nightclub because of a medical condition he attributed to an adrenaline overdose during the Falklands War. He described his only mistake as “a tendency to be too honorable.” He expressed no sympathy for Epstein’s victims. He suggested the photograph may have been faked.

What Virginia Did About It

On August 9, 2021, her thirty-eighth birthday, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew under the Child Victims Act. She filed four days before the look-back window closed. Andrew hid at Balmoral Castle. A judge scolded his lawyers for playing “a game of hide and seek behind palace walls.” The case was allowed to proceed. Queen Elizabeth stripped her son of his royal and military titles. Andrew deleted all of his social media accounts.

The case settled out of court in 2022 for an undisclosed amount. Virginia Giuffre took her own life in April 2025.

Her family said she “was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors.”

Lisa Phillips, a fellow Epstein survivor whose testimony has helped bring critical evidence to light, calls Virginia “a bold, beautiful, courageous woman.” Phillips, who has appeared in documentaries about Epstein, Maxwell, and Andrew, says Giuffre’s courage changed the course of her own life: “Virginia speaking out gave me the courage. If it wasn’t for her, it would have taken a lot more time. I knew she was telling the truth from the very beginning.”