‘Sex slave’ Virginia Roberts Giuffre details sex claims with Prince Andrew
Jeffrey Epstein’s Australian accuser from Cairns has told how she had sex with Prince Andrew when she was just 17 years old - a claim the royal denies.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Australian accuser claims she had sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 after the royal plied her with alcohol.
Cairns mother-of-three Virginia Roberts Giuffre, now 35, has told Dateline NBC in the US that Prince Andrew was a “participant” and an “abuser” during her time with Epstein.
Prince Andrew has vehemently denied the accusation against him, branding them “false” and “without foundation”.
Ms Roberts Giuffre claims her first sexual encounter with the Prince took place in the London townhouse of Epstein’s ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell.
She told NBC: “The first time in London, I was so young. Ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said, You’re gonna meet a prince today.’
“I didn’t know at that point that I was going to be trafficked to a prince.
“We went out to Club Tramp. Prince Andrew got me alcohol, it was in the VIP section, I’m pretty sure it was vodka.
“He was like, ‘Let’s dance.’ I was like, ‘OK.’ We leave Club Tramp and I hop in the car with Ghislaine and Jeffrey. She says ‘He’s coming back to the house and I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein.’”
Ms Roberts Giuffre then claims they went back to Ghislaine’s townhouse where she and Prince Andrew had sex in the bathroom and then in the bedroom.
“He wasn’t rude or anything about it, he said, thank you and some kind of soft sentiments like that and left,” she claims.
“I just couldn’t believe it, that even royalty were involved.
“He denies that it ever happened, he’s going to keep denying that it ever happened but he knows the truth and I know the truth.”
Ms Roberts Giuffre alleges that she slept with Prince Andrew three times — claims the royal vehemently denies.
Last month, she stood outside a court in Manhattan and delivered a message to Prince Andrew.
She said: “He knows exactly what he’s done. And I hope he comes clean about it.”
The royal has denied any wrongdoing, saying at no stage did he “witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to [Epstein’s] arrest and conviction”.
A previous Buckingham Palace statement said: “The Duke of York has been appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes.
“His Royal Highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent.”
Victim 'in mourning' over Epstein death
Ms Roberts Guthrie also told Datelinee of how she was in “mourning” when she heard about his sudden death as his global sex scandal landed him in prison.
But she said she was sad because it meant he wouldn’t be held accountable for his crimes.
Ms Giuffre she was a teenager when she was recruited as one of Epstein’s “sex slaves” and allegedly ordered to sleep with high-powered men.
She also alleges Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, played a crucial role in his sex trafficking organisation.
In the Dateline TV special titled ‘Reckoning’, Giuffre told of how she was in “shock,” after she heard jailed financier was found dead in his high-security jail cell from an apparent suicide on August 10.
“I was in mourning,” Giuffre said.
“Not because the world lost a monster, I wasn’t mourning the death of this man.
“I was mourning the death of my ability to hold this man accountable.”
Giuffre was one of six accusers interviewed on the program, and she appeared in a teaser trailer that aired on NBC’s Nightly News Thursday night.
NBC News Exclusive: Epstein accusers speak out.@SavannahGuthrie has the story. https://t.co/jEN7iee22I
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) September 20, 2019
The women were part of a group of nearly two dozen Epstein accusers who shared their stories of abuse during a hearing on August 27 to dismiss the federal sex trafficking charges against the late multi-millionaire.
Other accusers in the program include Anouska De Georgious, Rachel Benavidez who have come forward to tell their stories for the first time.
Other accusers on the program are Jennifer Araoz and Chauntae Davies.
In the episode, which airs Friday, the women said they believe the justice system failed them, in part because of the plea deal Epstein received in Florida in 2008.
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They allege this led to him avoiding federal charges — and he continued to allegedly target more victims.
Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter, who oversaw the original local investigation into Epstein, also appears on the show, where he said he his department uncovered substantial evidence against Epstein but subsequent handling by state and federal prosecutors was flawed.
He said it was “the worst failure of the criminal justice system … in modern times”.
“There is no explanation. I didn’t believe it back then, I don’t believe it now,” Reiter said. “It’s just unfathomable to me.”
Originally published as ‘Sex slave’ Virginia Roberts Giuffre details sex claims with Prince Andrew