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ificandream

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Mon Aug 25, 2025, 02:47 PM Aug 25

Virginia Giuffre's memoir 'contains Prince Andrew puppet assault claim'

Virginia Giuffre's memoir 'contains Prince Andrew puppet assault claim'
Source: The Times of London

A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre is expected to deal fresh embarrassment to Prince Andrew and is likely to detail how the duke allegedly used a puppet of himself to sexually assault her.

Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein, spent years working on the book, titled Nobody’s Girl, before she took her own life at her home in Perth, Australia, in April, at the age of 41.

The 400-page book, which will be released in late October, is likely to repeat allegations about the duke she made in an earlier memoir, which was filed in 2015 as part of her defamation case against Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. In the earlier memoir, unsealed in 2019 and titled The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, Giuffre wrote of how she was paid by the financier to have sex with his circle of friends, including Andrew. She previously claimed she had sex with the duke three times as a teenager, including in New York and in London, allegations he denied.

She said Maxwell twirled her around to give him “a good look over”. Andrew had a “cheesy grin” on his face, Giuffre wrote, and “looked me up and down like a shiny new car on display and he was about to take it for a test drive” before she sat on his lap. She wrote that Epstein and Maxwell then presented Andrew with a caricature puppet of himself from the satirical 1980s TV show Spitting Image and that he used the puppet to touch her inappropriately.

Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-book-puppet-8xvq5w95j


Prince Andrew’s depiction in Spitting Image, 1986
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Virginia Giuffre's memoir 'contains Prince Andrew puppet assault claim' (Original Post) ificandream Aug 25 OP
Was the puppet a sexual fetish or a way to deny he did the abuse? Irish_Dem Aug 25 #1
I've read about that, too. At the time, I thought it very strange but he's obviously a deranged weirdo Deuxcents Aug 25 #2
We now look at PA's stuffed animal collection in a new light. Irish_Dem Aug 25 #3

Irish_Dem

(74,872 posts)
1. Was the puppet a sexual fetish or a way to deny he did the abuse?
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 02:55 PM
Aug 25

It is rumored that Prince Andrew keeps a big stuffed animal collection on his bed at home.
And becomes very angry if the servants don't arrange them exactly the way he wants.

Deuxcents

(24,021 posts)
2. I've read about that, too. At the time, I thought it very strange but he's obviously a deranged weirdo
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 03:24 PM
Aug 25

I also read that his mother, the Queen, was so angry about the reports of him and his accusations, she pretty much excommunicated him from his royal duties and benefits

Irish_Dem

(74,872 posts)
3. We now look at PA's stuffed animal collection in a new light.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 03:31 PM
Aug 25

What appeared to be a juvenile and immature fixation is now looking like a sexual fetish and perversion.

I also suspect that he used the stuffed animals in his sexual assaults and kept them as souvenirs.
A real serial rapist.

QE had no choice but to fire PA from royal duties.
He is a true disgrace.
But she kept the money flowing for him.

King Charles has been cutting off the gravy train, but Andrew keeps mysteriously coming up
with cash from somewhere.

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