In a recently surfaced interview, the late Virginia Giuffre described herself as having been treated like an object to be used by a now-former senior royal. The footage, recorded in 2019, aired publicly for the first time this week.
Giuffre, who was 17 at the time of the alleged incidents, recounted meeting the royal figure in London in 2001. “I was a toy. I was there to be passed around,” she stated in the broadcast. She expressed profound distress that the man, who was a father to two young daughters at the time, could have engaged in the behavior she described.
“I was still a human being with feelings and emotion and sadness,” Giuffre said. “And to know that this man had daughters, that he was still capable of abusing me… it just doesn’t make sense.”
The royal has consistently and categorically denied all allegations of any sexual contact or wrongdoing. In the interview, Giuffre countered those denials, asserting, “He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there’s only one of us telling the truth.”
The broadcast also included Giuffre’s allegations against the socialite who facilitated her introduction to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre claimed this woman was “more physically abusive in some aspects than Jeffrey Epstein even was,” and took pleasure in the suffering of others.
The interview’s release follows the posthumous publication of Giuffre’s memoir, which contained further detailed allegations. In one account, she claimed the royal guessed her age by comparing her to his own pre-teen daughters before an alleged encounter.
Giuffre also described a brief sexual encounter following a night out, for which she said she was later paid a substantial sum by Epstein. She characterized the royal’s demeanor during the alleged incident as “friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed it was his birthright.”
The airing of this testimony adds another layer to a long-running scandal that has already resulted in the royal being stripped of his military affiliations and charitable patronages. Giuffre, an advocate for trafficking survivors, died earlier this year.
