Jeffrey Epstein victim hits out at Prince Andrew’s ‘lame’ faked photo excuse.The young woman who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew by billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein says the Duke of York — who denies her allegations — needs to “stop with all of these lame excuses”.
In recent weeks, friends of the Royal have claimed that the infamous 2001 photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Roberts Giuffre is “doctored” — that his fingers look “too chubby” and their heights do not match.
“Those are his fingers. That is Andrew,” Ms Roberts Giuffre told 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
“This photo has been verified as an original and it’s been since given to the FBI and they’ve never contested that it’s a fake. I know it’s real. He needs to stop with all of these lame excuses. We’re sick of hearing it. This is a real photo. That’s the very first time I met him.”
The photo, which the FBI and US Justice Department believe is genuine, was taken at the London home of Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping procure young women for the disgraced financier.
“We went to club Tramp and he danced with me,” Ms Roberts Giuffre said.
“He sweats a lot and he smells funny. And then we get in the car and Ghislaine tells me in the car that I have to do what I do for Jeffrey for Prince Andrew and that’s where I learned what was going to happen.”
Ms Roberts Giuffre says she had sex with Prince Andrew three times — the first in London, another time at Epstein’s New York mansion and the final time on his private island in the Caribbean.
On that occasion, she alleges there were “a lot of younger girls with us”. “I believe there (were) eight,” she said.
Prince Andrew has vehemently denied the allegations.
In repeated statements, the Duke of York has said the claims – which were struck from the record by a judge in UK legal proceedings in 2015 as being “immaterial and impertinent” – are “false and without foundation”.
“Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue,” a statement from Buckingham Palace said earlier this year.
Ms Roberts Giuffre said she was “abused by people that I can’t even mention”. “I was trafficked to other billionaires, I was trafficked to politicians, professors, even royalty,” she said.
“It was the elite of the world. It was the people who run the world. It was the most powerful people in the world.
He used me as a form of blackmail. So these people would owe him favours. He wanted to always have something on someone just in case he needed it.”
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