Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her own father – who strenuously denies touching her sexually
Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her own father who farmed her out to be molested by his friend when she was about nine.
In her posthumous memoir, she describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the ‘perfect victim’ for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
‘I know about monsters,’ she wrote. ‘As a child, I experienced nearly every kind of abuse: Incest, parental neglect, severe corporal punishment, molestation, rape. As a teen, I had been sexually trafficked by another paedophile even before I met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.’
It has long been known that Ms Giuffre came from a troubled home, but this is the first time she has described – in shocking detail – her unimaginably cruel upbringing. She says it was time to tell the whole story.
Her father, Sky Roberts, has strenuously denied ever touching Ms Giuffre sexually, and stressed: ‘I never abused my daughter.’ Given that Ms Giuffre is dead, she cannot be asked to provide any evidence to support her allegations.
Ms Giuffre grew up in Florida with her parents and two brothers and her beloved pony Alice.
Virginia Roberts when she was aged 7 with her father Sky Roberts, who strenuously denies claims in her posthumous memoir that she was abused by him
Sky Roberts, pictured recently, issued a firm denial to claims made in his late daughter’s book after her unhappy childhood
Virginia Roberts when she was a teenager, in a photo from her memoir
She recalls a happy early childhood but when she was about nine, bathtime with her mother was taken over by her father, she alleges, who turned it into an excruciating ordeal as she had to stand up in her bath so he could clean between her legs.
She wrote: ‘That night in my room, Dad touched me in ways nobody had before. He told me I was his special girl, his favourite, and that this was his way of giving me “extra love”.’
She claimed he ignored her protests that she was a ‘big girl now’ who could bathe herself, and when she tried to hide under the bed, he threatened to take away her pony.
In her harrowing account, Ms Giufrre tells how she developed a succession of urinary tract infections, mystifying nurses and a doctor who told her mother that her hymen was broken. ‘Oh, she rides horses bareback,’ was the explanation allegedly given.
Matters took an ever darker turn when she was introduced to Forrest, a friend of her father’s, and his daughter Sheila. One evening, the adults were drinking beer on the porch when one of the men suggested that they ‘trade’ the girls for a night.
‘I’ll never know the exact date I was first left with Forrest. I do remember that it was with my father’s permission,’ said Ms Giuffre who claimed Forrest put her in a bath and said: ‘We’ve got to wash you. You’re a dirty girl.’
Happier times: Virginia with her father Sky, a maintenance man who used to work at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
Ms Giuffre said that by the time she was molested by Jeffrey Epstein, she had already endured childhood rape and sexual abuse by her father, which he strenuously denies
Copies of Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which will be published on Tuesday
Her vivid memories of what was done to her are too horrific to repeat.
She wrote: ‘Sometimes what they did to me was so similar that I suspected they were comparing notes.’
According to Ms Giuffre, later in life she and Sheila swapped stories, and she was told Forrest had been convicted and jailed for abusing another girl.
Sky Roberts did not respond to attempts to contact him today. But in Ms Giuffre’s book, which she co-wrote with an author, there is a footnote quoting from a response received from Mr Roberts, in which he says: ‘Just to straighten this out, I never abused my daughter and didn’t know that Forrest did that either; if I had known about that, I would have been very angry and taken care of the situation. I gave my daughter every single thing she ever wanted and never ever touched her sexually.’
Mr Roberts added that he was ‘a moral person and believe that men who take advantage of young children should be prosecuted and then castrated. It really p****s me off that someone would write that I would ever abuse my children. As a father, I only tried to give my children a good life.’
