Virginia Giuffre: What we know about Prince Andrew's accuser
13 Jan 2022
BBC News
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What we know about the woman who has accused the British royal of sexual assault.
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"They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then - I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused… That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was," she told the BBC.