Prince Andrew’s ‘pimp’ pal Ghislaine Maxwell ‘had sex with dozens of underage girls’
Prince Andrew’s longtime friend Ghislaine Maxwell ‘had sex with underage girls virtually every day’ it has been alleged in court papers filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
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Prince Andrew’s gal pal and alleged “pimp” Ghislaine Maxwell had sex with dozens of girls, it is claimed in court papers.
The allegations are made in statements by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says she was forced to sleep with the Duke of York when she was aged 17, according to The Sun.
Ms Giuffre, 35, says the British socialite Maxwell procured underaged girls for the billionaire financier paedophile and his pals.
In the US papers she is asked by investigators: “It is your contention Ghislaine Maxwell had sex with underage girls virtually every day, correct?”
Ms Guiffre says: “Yes. There’s a lot of girls that were involved.”
Epstein, 66, killed himself in jail earlier this year while on sex trafficking charges.
Prince Andrew, 59, has kept in touch with Maxwell, 57, throughout the crisis.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Maxwell has not been seen in public since June this year and The Sun newspaper is offering a reward of £10,000 (A$19,000) for information leading to her whereabouts.
CHRISTMAS AT SANDRINGHAM WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
Prince Andrew could reportedly be banned from attending church with the Queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day, it has been revealed.
The decision comes as sex abuse campaigners plan to infiltrate the monarchist crowds, T he Sun reports.
A royal source revealed: “There are discussions about Christmas Day and a desire from many courtiers for Prince Andrew to stay away from the church, where he would be pictured with the rest of the family.
“There are now genuine concerns over sex abuse campaigners planning to be part of the crowds to jeer the Duke publicly.
“They know the world’s media would be there and it would end up dominating headlines of the day.
“There is no real fear from officials about the protest turning violent. It’s more about the further embarrassment it would cause to the Royal Family.”
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PHILIP BLASTS ANDREW OVER SEX SCANDAL
Prince Andrew was given a “tense” telling off by his dad, Prince Philip — who told him to “take his punishment” because he had endangered “the very fabric of the royal family,” it has been claimed.
Prince Andrew’s scandalous ties to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal had already seen him dumped from royal duties and later “read the riot act” by his older brother, heir to the throne, Prince Charles, reports the New York Post.
Now it has emerged that he was ordered to drive 230km to the Queen’s country retreat, Sandringham, for an earlier showdown with his father, 98-year-old Duke of Edinburgh Philip, according to The Telegraph.
“It was a tense meeting and Philip told his son he had to take his punishment,” a royal insider at Sandringham told the UK paper.
“There was no screaming or shouting but Philip told him in no uncertain terms that he had to step down for the sake of the monarchy.
“Philip doesn’t like trial by the media but he is realistic enough to realise that Andrew’s actions were a danger to the very fabric of the royal family.”
Prince Philip arranged for Prince Charles to take over giving his brother “the riot act” because he is slowly preparing to take control of the royal family as king, another source reportedly told The Telegraph.
“The feeling is that with Prince Philip retired at 98 and the Queen now 93, Charles has to take a firm grip on the family and plan for the future,” another source said.
“The first task was to support the Queen in helping to sort out the Andrew problem.”
ACCUSER’S DAD SAYS ‘SHE’S TELLING THE TRUTH’
It comes as Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s father has reacted following his daughter’s explosive interview with the BBC.
In the bombshell interview, the Cairns-based woman called “BS” on Prince Andrew’s denials of her claim that she was forced to have sex with him while she was underage.
The 35-year-old tore down Prince Andrew’s rejection of her account, saying she was forced to sleep with him by convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Ghislaine tells me I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that made me sick.”
Following the interview her father Sky Roberts told Good Morning Britain that he had “no doubt” his daughter was “telling the truth”.
“My feelings towards Prince Andrew is that he knows the truth and what he really did,” he said.
“I’ve seen the interviews, him denying everything, apparently he’s not telling the truth and I think most of Britain knows that. I feel so sorry for my daughter for everything she went through.
“At the time she was going through it, I had no idea. I love my daughter very much. She’s really brave to be going through all of this and to come up against these powerful people.
“I’m just glad she’s out of it and fighting back – we’re very proud of her.
“She has no reason to not tell the truth about this. He has every reason to deny it because him being a royal and what he’s done.
“These are young girls, these are kids. He has young daughters, what if it was his daughter that went through this? These powerful people that pick on young girls like this, they should be prosecuted.”
ANDREW’S ACCUSER THANKS SUPPORTERS
Ms Roberts Giuffre has received overwhelming public support for her “brave” and “courageous” interview.
She thanked her supporters after the documentary aired.
Just want to say a million thank you’s to ALL of the beautiful support I received today!! It makes me so grateful to know that there is so much public outcry for the world to change. It needs to change and we HAVE to band together to do that!! ALL MY LOVE 💕🦋
— Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) December 3, 2019
“I was very moved by your dignity and courage when I watched #Panorama. I hope that justice will be done,” a member of the public responded.
Another said: “You are a very courageous women, thank you for telling your story.
“Thank you for speaking out against injustice and empowering others to do the same.”
In the documentary, Ms Roberts Giuffre added details of her encounter with Andrew.
“There was a bath and it started there, then it led into the bedroom,” she said.
“It didn’t last very long, the whole entire procedure, it was disgusting.
“He wasn’t mean or anything but …
“He got up and he said thanks, and walked out.
“I sat there in bed, just horrified and ashamed and felt dirty and had to get up and go have a shower.”
Epstein and Ms Maxwell were friends of Prince Andrew, who stayed in the financier’s New York mansion after he was convicted of procuring sex with minors.
The BBC uncovered emails between Prince Andrew and Ms Maxwell from 2015 in which the Duke asks her for information about Ms Roberts Giuffre.
“Let me know when we can talk, got some specific questions about Virginia Roberts,” the Duke wrote to Ms Maxwell.
Ms Maxwell replied: “Have some info – call me when you have a moment.”
The revelations the Duke sought the help of an alleged child abuser to ward off allegations against himself will heighten calls for him to go to America and testify to the FBI on his dealings with Epstein.
The BBC also revealed that five other women have claimed the Duke knew about the abuse Epstein was inflicting on them, and have prepared pre-written witness subpoenas for him.
Lawyer David Boies, who is representing the five women, said: “One of the things that we have tried is to interview Prince Andrew and to try to get what his explanation is.
“He was a frequent visitor. They ought to submit to an interview. They ought to talk about it.”
Prince Andrew vehemently denies he saw, witnessed or suspected any behaviour that led to Epstein’s arrest.
“It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts,” a spokesman for Prince Andrew told the documentary in a statement.
“Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”
Ms Roberts Giuffre claims she has a vivid recollection of the time she spent with Prince Andrew, which began at London nightclub Tramp.
“We went into the VIP section. There was no waiting in the lines obviously – you were with a prince,” she said.
“Andrew asked me what I wanted to drink, you know, and I said oh, you know, something from the bar.
“He had something clear. I know mine was vodka.”
Ms Giuffre said he “asked me to dance”, which is at odds with Prince Andrew’s claims he never danced with her.
She also called out his claim about his inability to sweat due to an injury sustained in the Falklands War.
“He is the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me,” she said.
The Duke of York, 59, has denied he ever met Ms Roberts Giuffre, despite a photograph of the pair together taken in 2001 where he had his arm around her bare midriff.
He has denied the photograph was real, with some of his supporters saying his hands were too chubby.
Ms Roberts Giuffre said she was stunned at the denials.
“The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses. Like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or uh he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein,” she told Panorama.
“I mean come on, I’m calling BS on this, because that’s what it is. He knows what happened. I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth, and I know that’s me.”
“It’s a real photo. I’ve given it to the FBI for their investigation and it’s an authentic photo. There’s a date on the back of it from when it was printed.”
And she called on the British public to back her in her battle against Prince Andrew, who is fighting a rearguard action despite stepping down from his royal duties.
“I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being OK,” she said.
“This is not some sordid sex story. This is a story of being trafficked, this is a story of abuse and this is a story of your guys’ royalty.”
Epstein, a convicted paedophile, took his own life in jail in August.
Ms Roberts Giuffre claims that Epstein introduced her to Prince Andrew and forced her to have sex with him when she was 17.
Buckingham Palace has repeatedly denied Ms Roberts Giuffre’s claims, which were struck out of a US court case in 2015.
Ms Roberts Giuffre told the program that it was a “scary time in my life”.
“He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there’s only one of us telling the truth,” she said, according to a preview clip.
The Queen, under the advice of Prince Charles who is taking an increasing role in the monarchy, forced Andrew to step down from all royal duties for the “foreseeable future” following his BBC interview.
Ms Maxwell, who is in hiding, has been accused of procuring girls for Epstein’s sordid fantasies, offering them trips to exotic islands and then forcing them into becoming sex slaves.
Some of the girls claimed they were farmed out to Epstein’s older male friends.
Ms Roberts Giuffre claimed in US court papers she slept with Prince Andrew twice when she was underage and a third time after the age of consent under duress.
Prince Andrew claimed that he could not have met Ms Roberts Giuffre in 2001 because he was at a birthday party at a Pizza Express with his daughter Beatrice.
He also argued that Ms Roberts Giuffre’s claim that they had sweated on the dancefloor at London’s Tramp nightclub was untrue because of an injury during the Falklands War that made him unable to perspire and he had never been to the nightclub.
However, photographs have emerged of Prince Andrew’s sweat stained armpits and an image of him standing outside Tramp nightclub.
A YouGov poll taken after Prince Andrew’s interview found only six per cent of people believed him.
ANDREW ‘EXPLOITED’ ROYAL STATUS
Meantime, it’s been claimed Prince Andrew exploited his royal status as a British trade envoy to lobby for a rich financier who was also his business partner, The Australian reports.
In bombshell email revelations, it emerged that Prince Andrew promoted a private Luxembourg bank on trade missions and was a co-owner of a business with the bank’s owner, David Rowland, in a Virgin Islands tax haven.
The Australian reports that there are calls for a public inquiry into Prince Andrew’s activities, with one British MP saying he was “a million miles away’’ from separating his personal and business life.
The Mail on Sunday newspaper obtained and published “The Prince Andrew Papers”, a series of emails showing how the scandal-riddled prince blurred the lines between royal, official and private business.
He appears to have used official duties to plug Mr Rowland’s Luxembourg bank while being in a business with the financier himself.
The emails show that Prince Andrew was also considering taking a financial stake in the bank he was secretly promoting.
Prince Andrew’s moves to try to line his own pockets on taxpayers’ time and money has infuriated a public that is already distrustful of his friendship with Epstein.
– with staff writers
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