The upcoming posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most famous victims of billionaire financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was excerpted in The Guardian on Wednesday, going into detail about a number of twisted events that happened to her.
Giuffre, who passed away earlier this year from suicide, has implicated a number of prominent and well-connected people as part of Epstein's crimes, one of them being Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family.
She went into further detail about her encounters with him, including her first at Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001, after Andrew came to the premises to have dinner with them.
"In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved," said Giuffre. "He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright. I drew him a hot bath. We disrobed and got in the tub, but didn’t stay there long because the prince was eager to get to the bed. He was particularly attentive to my feet, caressing my toes and licking my arches. That was a first for me, and it tickled. I was nervous he would want me to do the same to him. But I needn’t have worried. He seemed in a rush to have intercourse. Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour."
The segment concluded with Giuffre confirming that many more people witnessed Epstein's crimes, which only seemed to excite him more, in her understanding.
"Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing," wrote Giuffre. "Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care."
All of this comes amid a spiraling controversy about the Trump administration's refusal to release troves of case files on Epstein publicly, after promising they would. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is even accused of dragging his feet on swearing in a Democrat who won a special election to prevent passage of a bipartisan discharge petition to compel the administration to release the files.