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Virginia Giuffre described being called a “complete whore” and “ghetto” by a former girlfriend of Prince Andrew in her posthumous book.
Giuffre said in a lawsuit that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands to have sex with Prince Andrew in 2001 and feared death if she refused. Andrew has always denied the allegations and settled out of court in 2022 without admitting liability.
In her book Nobody’s Girlpublished Tuesday, Giuffre says Lady Victoria Herveya former girlfriend of Prince Andrew, had publicly criticized her on Instagram during the court case.
“The prince was not without his supporters,” Giuffre wrote. “On January 31 [2022]a former girlfriend of his, a socialite named Lady Victoria Hervey, took to Instagram to say that in her opinion, I was ‘a complete whore.’
“Then, just in case anyone had forgotten that this story is not just about sexual abuse but also about class, she added that I was ‘just a ghetto opportunity whose [sic] seriously mixed up.’
“Never one to shirk her public duty, Lady Victoria—the daughter of the sixth marquess of Bristol, half sister of the seventh marquess, and sister of the eighth marquess, whatever all of that means—would give many mean-spirited interviews about me in the coming months.”
Newsweek approached representatives of Hervey for comment via email.
Giuffre’s account broadly matches an article from 2022 on The Steeple Timesthough that version had the word “opportunist” in place of “opportunity.” Steeple Times published screen grabs purporting to show Hervey’s comments, said to have been published to her Instagram Stories. Posts on Stories disappear shortly after they are posted.
Hervey was a guest on Piers Morgan Uncensored on October 17 when she reacted to early passages of Giuffre’s book by suggesting Giuffre had lied about having four days to live earlier in the year.
“I think the whole thing is such a joke,” Hervey said. “You know that actually people believe the girl that said, ‘Oh, I have four days to live.’
“And she, you know, the girl just made up stories and it’s probably not her fault. Like she was abused by her father and her father’s friend when she was seven years old and that obviously had a huge impact on her life. But then to take that out on a member of the royal family…”
In another Instagram story published Tuesday, she questioned whether Giuffre had actually died in April: “On another note, there’s a growing consensus questioning whether she is truly dead.
“We never saw a body, never saw a funeral. Usually there’s at least a covered stretcher—but this time we got nothing.”
Hervey has a history of disputing the accounts of Epstein accusers, including in January 2022, around the time of the posts referenced by Giuffre in her book. That was also just after Maxwell was found guilty in December 2021.
“Please can someone let me know what the age of consent is in the UK,” she wrote, “I thought it’s 17. Some of these stories sound like a case study of Regret turning into Revenge. This story has been so blown out of proportion.
“Or has it. Nobody knows. People are literally murdering people in LA and getting out of jail. It’s a real life gotham city blood bath. I know Ghislaine is obviously not a saint and should pay back the trauma caused to her ‘victims’ but lifetime in jail for touching a girls tit 20 years ago and taking them on yacht, private jet and shopping trips. Come on. This has become a witch 🧙🏼♀️ hunt.”
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