Ms Giuffre took her own life earlier this year. In a statement on Saturday, her family said they were “deeply disappointed” by the decision to drop the investigation “without explanation and without speaking to us”.
They added: “With the Epstein files about to be released by Congress since the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act, we are surprised that the Metropolitan Police didn’t wait to see what further evidence might appear.
“While we have hailed the UK’s overall handling of the case of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor previously, today we feel justice has not been served.”
Ms Giuffre said she was among the girls and young women sexually exploited by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his wealthy circle.
She claimed she was forced to have sex with the then-Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17 at the home of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell in London, in 2001.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges related to Epstein, her former boyfriend – he died in a New York police cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
In her memoir, published posthumously, Ms Giuffre described her allegations against the former prince in detail.
She alleged the third time she had sex with Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was on Epstein’s island, as part of what she called “an orgy”.
She also recalled seeing a picture of Epstein and the former prince together in New York in 2011, saying she was “revolted to see two of my abusers together, out for a stroll” but “mostly I was amazed that a member of the Royal Family would be stupid enough to appear in public with Epstein”.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor said he did not remember meeting Ms Giuffre “at all”, and that they “never had any sort of sexual contact.”
He reached a financial settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, formally ending a civil sex assault case against him in the US.
