Jeffrey Epstein scandal: ‘Andrew no fairytale prince … he’s an abuser, says Virginia Roberts Giuffre in new documentary

Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre tells new documentary series Prince Andrew ‘deserves to be outed’.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, left, says Prince Andrew, right, ‘deserves to be outed'. Pictures: Getty

The Duke of York is not a fairytale prince but an abuser, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims claims in a new documentary.

In an interview to be broadcast this month Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who was photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001, says he should be held to account for his association with Epstein.

“I am happy to talk about him because he abused me, he participated in a sexual-trafficking operation with one of the most prolific sex-trafficking operators in the world the entire time,” Ms Giuffre, 37, says. “Prince Andrew is not the prince from the fairytale stories you read. Andrew deserves to be outed, he deserves to be held accountable, he is an abuser.”

Andrew, 60, has consistently denied Ms Giuffre’s allegations and recently rejected claims she made in court documents that he lobbied for a plea deal for the financier. A friend of the duke said the allegation that the duke sought leniency for Epstein was “a straightforward untruth”.

An appeal court that released other documents from the same case last year advised that the claims be treated with caution and read by the public “with discernment”.

The case was Ms Giuffre’s action against Ms Maxwell, 58, the British socialite and long-time friend of Epstein and the duke. She is in prison in New York awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and perjury charges. The charges, which Ms Maxwell denies, relate to three victims who were abused by Epstein from 1994-97.

Ms Giuffre, who is not one of the complainants in the criminal case against Ms Maxwell, claims in the documentary Surviving Jeffrey Epstein on the Crime+Investigation channel that her first encounter with Epstein led immediately to a sexually abusive situation. She says: ‘The younger you look the better it is’

“The massage seemed legit at first. Ghislaine grabbed one foot, I grabbed the other and she said you always want to keep one hand on the body when you are massaging somebody, and then he turns over and the entire thing changed.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005. Giuffre says the sexual abuse began at her first encounter with the Epstein. Picture: Getty.

“They said, take off your clothes. I had these little girl undies on, like hearts on them, and they were laughing because they liked that. The younger you look the better it is. So I stripped down, Ghislaine stripped down, it turned very sexual. It was abuse straight away, from both of them.”

The four-part series is being screened to mark the first anniversary of Epstein’s death in prison. Courtney Wild talks about her first encounter with him in Florida. She says: “When you drive over the bridge to go on Palm Beach Island you can just feel the money and power. I was brought to his house. It’s like the end of the street, the last house. Everything is like super secluded and super private. It’s a beautiful mansion and there’s his chef and his secretary and these gorgeous women, barefoot models, and here I am, 14.

“And I remember thinking, why do they want me? It quickly transitions to him molesting me and me going along with it, because I just went along with it.

“I remember walking down the staircase after and I’m given the $200 and I am like so upset and disgusted and just feeling like, how did this just happen? I was like, I will never come back here ever again and then you know after a week went by I kind of downplayed the situation to myself and maybe it wasn’t so bad and I could go back because I do need more money and it was just a, it was just a sick cycle.

“He groomed me to be exactly what he wanted me to be: a personal sex slave, that brought him underage girls.”

Rachel Benavidez said that she was hired to give Epstein a massage and found him intimidating. “He said, ‘Massage my feet’, and then started asking me ‘Oh can you do my psoas muscle’ which is close to the groin,” she added.

The Times