Provocative Remarks Made by Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew’s Accuser

Virginia Giuffre, who previously accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault and reached a substantial settlement, has returned to social media with comments about associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Giuffre took to a platform known as X, previously Twitter, and posted: “A merry early Christmas - Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates and victims are likely to be publicly identified in court documents in the coming weeks - my gratitude and many blessings to Judge Preska, a seeker of truth and dispenser of justice.”

She further added in a subsequent post: “Over Christmas and New Years, there will be a lot of anxious individuals, precisely 170, wondering who’s on the naughty list? This wouldn’t have been possible without the Honourable Judge Preska”.

This follows a federal judge’s order for the public disclosure of the identities of over 150 individuals mentioned in a plethora of court documents related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The judge stated that most of the names were already in the public domain and that many had not opposed their release.

Giuffre, now 40, was one of the victims of Epstein’s trafficking operation. She filed a lawsuit against the Duke of York for battery and infliction of emotional distress, alleging that the royal sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old, in 2001.

The lawsuit was settled in February 2022 for a reported sum of £10 million. Prince Andrew has consistently denied her allegations and any misconduct.

Epstein, who passed away in a federal detention center in Manhattan in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, was accused of enticing numerous underage girls to his residences under the pretense of providing him massages, and then sexually exploiting them.