EXCLUSIVE: Prince Andrew's 'Missing Millions' - Accuser's Charity 'Fraudulently Listed Director'

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, which covers my five-year investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal. More details and exclusive interviews with key witnesses to follow soon.

Virginia Giuffre’s multi-million-dollar estate instantly became a bone of contention in the days and weeks following her tragic death. Having died intestate, under Australian law her husband Robert could be set to scoop up as much as a third of his estranged wife’s wealth – something which her siblings appear desperate to prevent.

Her brothers, Sky Roberts and Danny Wilson, have hired a lawyer to file a legal challenge, claiming it was their sister’s wish that Robert should “not receive a dime”.

But their qualms don’t stop there. Virginia’s upcoming posthumous book, ‘Nobody’s Girl’, the second memoir she’s written, is already generating controversy.

“We are filled with utter dismay over their [Knopf’s] decision to move forward with the publication, despite Virginia’s express wishes, stated in the last weeks of her life to no less than six people, that she did not want it published in its current form,” her brothers, along with their wives, Amanda Roberts and Lanette Wilson, said in a statement to The Times. Her siblings went on to accuse the book’s publisher, a division of Penguin Random House, of “sensationalising” Virginia’s alleged abuse and “exploiting her legacy.”

They state that, in the days before her death, Giuffre told her lawyer, carer and brothers, of her deep desire to change sections of the memoir to include the physical abuse she alleges was inflicted upon her by her husband, with whom she was engaged in bitter divorce proceedings. So much was this desire, they allege, that she was even willing to use a portion of her millions to buy back publication rights.

Knopf, seemingly keen to stick to saleable sensationalism, however, have justified their imminent publishing of the unchanged memoir by citing an earlier instruction given by Giuffre herself, in writing.

Virginia Giuffre, photographed in Perth in 2023.

Weeks after her hospitalisation and the contested series of events that placed her there, Giuffre sent an email to the book’s co-author, Amy Wallace, stating it to be her “heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time. The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders.”

It was revealed that the email was also sent to Dini Von Mueffling.

Von Mueffling, a former New York City journalist turned PR firm CEO, is not only the late Virginia’s spokesperson and publicist, but also a board member of Virginia’s charity, ‘Speak Out, Act, Reclaim’ (S.O.A.R.).

This is where the controversies of Giuffre widen, extending to fellow accusers such as Teresa Helm (formerly listed as the charity’s Vice President), and to her lawyers, Bradley Edwards (a co-founder and director of the charity, formerly going by the name ‘Victims Refuse Silence) and David Boies (whose firm is listed on the charity’s website as a partner).

Well-known lawyers David Boies (left) and Bradley Edwards (right) are associated with the controversial charity.

In an ‘informal’ will drafted by her lawyer, Virginia allegedly expressed her intention for her millions to be bequeathed to her children and to SOAR.

But the charity, which is now including in the ongoing legal battle as part of her estate, has been accused by some abuse victims of ignoring their pleas for help, instead palming them off to other organisations (the official website simply directs abuse victims to contact the National Trafficking Hotline, which has no connection to SOAR). And all this despite receiving millions of dollars in donations against the promise that the charity would raise awareness of human trafficking and, more specifically, help victims.

In the charity’s bank account, amongst those millions of dollars, once sat a substantial donation made by Prince Andrew as part of his out-of-court settlement – and no-one seems to know exactly where that money has gone.

Queen Elizabeth is believed to have contributed the $2.7 million to SOAR from her private Duchy of Lancaster estate.

Prince Andrew with his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Legal experts said the late Queen’s cash was a charitable asset that could be accessed only by board members of Soar. It was allegedly being held in an escrow account managed by a third party. No-one knows for sure.

Nor does anyone seem to know where the rest of SOAR’s cash has ended up, for the charity itself – which to all extents and purposes boils down to a mere ominous website – hasn’t been forthcoming with satisfactory financial transparency.

In January, 2023, The Telegraph reported about this mystery under the headline, “Virginia Giuffre yet to set up charity despite accepting $2m donation from Prince Andrew,” further adding, “Duke’s accuser has published website ‘for survivors of sex trafficking’ but organisation does not appear to have been officially registered”.

“SOAR is not thought to be officially registered as a non-profit with the Internal Revenue Service, the US governmental department with which charities file their annual accounts and are granted tax-exempt status,” the article continued. “Its website says it was incorporated as Victims Refuse Silence in 2015 but there have been no official filings by that organisation since 2019.

“The organisation’s website states that SOAR is “dedicated to providing a safe and empowering space for survivors of sex trafficking to reclaim their stories and stand up for themselves and each other”.

“It adds that although it officially launched in November 2021, “at this early stage, we are not yet accepting donations”.

“A spokesman declined to comment, although one source insisted that there would be activity “soon”.”

But that ‘soon’ has stretched into the passing of another two years, with evidently little to no activity in-between.

Virginia did, however - as emails made public through Professor Alan Dershowitz’s lawsuit against Virginia demonstrate - offer her old school friend Rebecca Boylan, who has no recorded experience of working in the NGO sector, a position in the charity upon Boylan telling her she was in a dire financial situation and asking her for money.

Who else did Virginia offer positions to, or perhaps offer money from the ‘charity’s’ coffers?

The answer is that, due to the lack of financial transparency, we simply just don’t know. A quick check on Guidestar.org shed further light on the controversy.

GuideStar is a public charity that aggregates and presents comprehensive information about IRS-registered non-profit organisations in the United States. With a database encompassing over 1.8 million organisations, it is the world’s largest source of information on US non-profits​​​​​​.

The site states the following regarding Virginia’s ‘charity’:

“The organisation’s (tax) exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF [informational forms required by law to present financial transparency in order to prove an organisation qualifies to be exempt from paying tax] for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.”

Upon learning this, I did some further digging. Curiously using its former name, ‘Victims Refuse Silence (VRS),’ Bradley Edwards filed an annual report in 2024 (though still I could find no financial transparency within it), listing the organisation’s ‘principle place of business’ as being based at his own head office in Florida. I reached out to Edwards, but received no reply. I did, however, manage to speak to another person officially registered as a director of VRS and mentioned by Edwards as a director of the organisation in the report – only to surprisingly discover that she had no idea she’d been registered as such.

Eliza Bleu, who claims she was added as a director without her knowledge.

On her Twitter account, Eliza Bleu describes herself as ‘a survivor and trained survivor advocate, certified in multiple states,’ and she has engaged with Elon Musk in relation to her outspoken campaigning against human trafficking.

When I showed her documentation proving that she was officially named as a director, she was genuinely flabbergasted. She claimed that she’d been approached by Virginia and Teresa Helm to help promote the newly fledged organisation on social media (Bleu has a very large following, particularly on Twitter).

“It was only a website when we met,” she told me. “They asked me to do a video for the fundraiser, and after that they asked me to be part of the organisation… But I never agreed to be a director.”

Searching through her emails, Eliza confirmed that she’d been asked to be a board member, but never sent any request or invitation to be listed as a director, nor had she even been informed of her role by anyone from within the organisation.

She also sent me screenshots of her early conversation with Virginia and the VRS’s Vice President, Teresa Helm, corroborating her claim that she was registered as a director without her knowledge or consent.

“Very excited to have you apart [sic] of the team,” Virginia emailed her on the 25^th September, 2020. “I know the three of us working together is a match made in heaven!! Please sign and send back. If you do not have a printer, please acknowledge you’ve received this email and agree to the terms attached.”

The attached document was in fact a scanned letter, which had already been signed by Virginia but awaited signatures from Helm and Bleu.

“Dear Ms. Eliza,” it began. “We would like to welcome you and express our appreciation for the beginning of a long business relationship with our charity Victims Refuse Silence Inc. We have made a draft of our conversation with you today, Friday, September 25^th 2020. It contains the ideas of an innovative motivation and dedication to the future of Victims Refuse Silence Inc. I will send you the details of our Dropbox account, of which [sic] where we record on a monthly basis a meeting between the three of us describing our short and long-term goals and notes of our conversations. Teresa Helm, Vice President & Virginia Giuffre, C.E.O. have voted you in and welcome you to Victims Refuse Silence as Chief Administrative Officer. Your role is and not limited to strategizing ways to best help victims of human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse as a whole.”

Again, Bleu stressed to me that she was never asked to be a director of VRS, and confirmed that she was never paid any money from the organisation - in fact sending me proof that she had made a donation to the charity in the hope that she would be helping victims of child trafficking.

“I agreed to be on the board and to be a chief administrative officer, but they listed me as something else than what I agreed to,” she told me upon me showing her that Bradley Edwards, as VRS’ ‘registered agent’, had recorded her as being a director. “That position (chief administrative officer) was the first and only position that I agreed to.”

Bleu claims that shortly after agreeing to come on as a board member and chief administrative officer, she tried to keep in touch with Virginia and Helm but was ‘ghosted’.

“It’s crazy to put my name as director without my consent,” she added. “I’d like to get my name removed asap. I want nothing to do with any of it, and I’ll take legal action if needs be.”