Virginia Giuffre‘s posthumous memoir is set to be released on Tuesday, which details her claims that she was a victim of Epstein’s years-long sex trafficking operation.
This includes being flown to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17. However, Andrew has strongly denied these claims.
Discussing Ms Giuffre’s book, Emily said: “It will be harrowing, it will be devastating and it will document a life of pain and a woman who was in so much trauma that she believed by speaking out that she could help others through what she had gone through and that she could in some way try and repair the damage to her own life.”
Ms Maitlis conducted a now infamous Newsnight interview with Andrew in 2019 where he claimed he had cut off contact from Epstein before the email.
Epstein was found guilty of child sex offences in 2008 before taking his own life in 2019.
Prince Andrew stepped away from royal duties following the release of the interview in which he made a series of claims about his relationship with the disgraced financier.
Further revelations in the time since have put additional pressure on the Royal Family, with the prince ultimately forced to relinquish his royal title and other honours.
The legendary broadcaster believes that Andrew’s decision to give up his royal titles was “inevitable”.
She added: “It feels like it’s been a long time coming this. I mean, the interview was done nearly six years ago, and in the weeks and months after it, he renounced, relinquished a lot of his royal duties, a lot of his public duties, a lot of his charities, his patronages.
“And yet there has been this sort of drip, drip effect, and we’ve all had to follow. Will he be at Sandringham? Will he be with the family for Christmas? Will he be allowed at the coronation or the jubilee, whatever it is?
“And in a way, I think this was an inevitable place that the palace was going to end up at, I mean, pretty soon after we realised the ramifications from what he said. So yes, I think six years has been quite a long time to wait for this.”
