Royals: Epstein sex slave Virginia Giuffre slams Prince Andrew’s ‘ridiculous excuses’ in first UK interview
A woman who claims she was trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew says she felt ‘horrified, ashamed and dirty’.
Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave Virginia Giuffre has appealed to the British public “to stand up beside me to help me fight this fight’’ and to “not accept this as being OK’’ after claiming she was trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions.
Ms Giuffre, now 36 and living in Australia, said she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in 2001 when she was 17 and she knew she had to keep him happy because that was what Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell expected from her.
‘A wicked time in my life’
She said: "It didn’t last very long, the entire procedure. It was disgusting, he wasn’t mean, he said thanks and got out and I was horrified and ashamed and dirty. The next day Ghislaine pats me on the back and says you did a really good job, you made him really happy.’’
In the interview, Ms Giuffre then began to cry, saying: “It was a wicked time in my life, I had been abused by a member of royal family. … these powerful people were my chains.
“I couldn’t comprehend how the highest levels of the government were allowing this to happen. Not just allowing but participating in it.’’
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Ms Giuffre spoke to the BBC Panorama program before Prince Andrew’s car-crash interview on November 16 about his friendship with Epstein but was reinterviewed for her response after it.
The program revealed that five women have made claims that Andrew witnessed Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.
It also uncovered an email sent by Andrew at 5.50am to Ms Maxwell in 2015 when some aspects of Ms Giuffre’s court deposition became public.
In the email the Prince tells Ms Maxwell: “Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts”.
Ms Maxwell replies: “Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.”
Ms Giuffre told the program: ‘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.
“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.”
‘Sweat like it was raining’
She described her first meeting with Andrew and how they went to the Tramp nightclub, saying his sweat was like it was raining and she was “grossed out”.
“We went into the VIP section. There was no waiting in the lines obviously — you were with a prince.
“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 and then he asked me to dance.
“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 added that when they had left the club, Ms Maxwell gave her instructions what to do. She said later that same night she had sex with Andrew at Ms Maxwell’s house.
“In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.’ Ms Giuffre recalled. She said that Andrew was travelling in another car with his security detail.
In the BBC Newsnight interview two weeks ago Andrew claimed he did not sweat because he had a medical condition caused by excess adrenaline in the Falklands War when he was shot at.
Andrew denies having sex with Ms Giuffre and said in that interview: “I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
He also couldn’t recall the photograph being taken and raised questions about whether the image was authentic.
Ms Giuffre’s claims about Andrew were first filed in a defamation court case in Florida where the age of consent is 18.
She said in her deposition that she had sex with Andrew on three occasions including an orgy on Epstein’s private island, Little St James island.
Ms Giuffre said “people on the inside” were coming up with excuses about the photo she said was taken by Epstein of her and Andrew on the first floor of Maxwell’s London mews house.
“The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses. Like his arm was elongate or the photo was doctored, or uh he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein,” she told the program.
“I mean come on, I’m calling BS (bullshit) 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.”
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