3 Most Disturbing Smuggling 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 children. She was also a woman who did what no one else could. He publicly named Prince Andrew, sued him, and forced the world to look at what the British royal family wanted to be buried. On February 19, 2026, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested.
All that follows is from Giuffre’s memoir No Girlwritten with Amy Wallace. We also link to affidavits, and reputable third-party sources to add more context to the claims. Prince Andrew denied them all.
London. March 2001.
On the morning of March 10, 2001, Ghislaine Maxwell shook a seventeen-year-old girl 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 years old.
Maxwell went shopping with Giuffre that morning. Burberry bag. Three clothes. 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 right. Seventeen. He noticed that his daughters were just a little bit younger.
Maxwell’s response: “I think we’ll have to trade him soon.”
Giuffre asked Epstein to photograph him and the prince. Andrew explained putting his arm around his waist while Maxwell stood next to them, smiling. Epstein photographed with a disposable Kodak camera. It was founded three days later in a one-hour photography shop in West Palm Beach. That image would become one of the most scrutinized in modern British history.
After dinner, the group went to the Tramp, an exclusive London night club. Giuffre says that Andrew bought him a cocktail, asked him to dance, and broke into a sweat while doing so. These details are important. Andrew would go on national television and say he wouldn’t sweat in that nightclub because of a medical condition he attributed to an adrenaline rush during the Falklands War, nearly two decades earlier.
When they got in the car back home, Giuffre says Maxwell instructed him: “When we get home, you have to do for him what you did for Jeffrey.”
Giuffre describes drawing Andrew in the bath. Then sleep with him. He was seventeen years old. The encounter lasted less than thirty minutes. The next morning, Maxwell said to him: “You did well.
Giuffre says Epstein paid him $15,000.
New York. April 2001.
About one month later, Giuffre allegedly had a second encounter at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. Another alleged victim, Johanna Sjoberg, was also present.
Maxwell had the gift of a prince. A doll. It had a tag that read “Prince Andrew.”
Maxwell arranged a group photo. The puppet was placed in Giuffre’s lap with his hand on his chest. Sjoberg was placed on Andrew’s lap, and according to Giuffre, Andrew placed his hand on Sjoberg’s chest.
Giuffre wrote of the scene in his memoir: “Johanna and I were Maxwell and Epstein’s puppets, and they were pulling the strings.”
She says she was sent to a room after that, where she slept with Andrew a second time. He was seventeen years old.
James Jr. Summer of 2001.
The third alleged encounter is more disturbing.
Giuffre said in a 2015 affidavit that on Epstein’s private island, she, Epstein, Andrew, and about eight other girls slept together. He said some of the girls appeared to be under the age of eighteen and did not speak English. Epstein allegedly laughed off the language barrier, saying they were “easy girls to get along with.” Giuffre says Epstein told him French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel offered it.
Pilot David Rodgers later testified at trial that the note on his July 4, 2001 flight log, “AP,” was 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 Says About All This
In a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew said he did not remember ever meeting Virginia Giuffre. “There is nothing.”
He said on March 10, 2001, he was taking his daughter Princess Beatrice to buy pizza. He said he wouldn’t sweat at the Tramp nightclub because of a medical condition he said was caused by an adrenaline rush during the Falklands War. He described his only fault as “a tendency to be too polite.” He expressed no sympathy for Epstein’s victims. He suggested that the photo might be fake.
What Virginia Did With It
On August 9, 2021, his thirty-eighth birthday, Giuffre filed a civil suit against Prince Andrew under the Child Victims Act. You entered four days before the lookback window closes. Andrew hid in Balmoral Castle. The judge scolded his lawyers for playing “a game of hiding behind palace walls.” The case was allowed to proceed. Queen Elizabeth stripped her son of his royal and military titles. Andrew has deleted all his social media accounts.
The case settled out of court in 2022 for an undisclosed amount. Virginia Giuffre committed suicide in April 2025.
His family said he was “a strong warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. He was a light that lifted up many survivors.”
Lisa Phillips, also an Epstein survivor whose testimony has helped reveal important evidence, calls Virginia “a brave, beautiful, courageous woman.” Phillips, who appeared in portraits about Epstein, Maxwell, and Andrew, says Giuffre’s courage changed the course of his life: “Virginia’s speaking out gave me courage, if it wasn’t for her, it would have taken a lot longer.”
