January 6th 2024.
Ghislaine Maxwell has contradicted Prince Andrew's claims about how he met Jeffrey Epstein, according to new court documents. The Duke of York had previously said that he had met the American sex offender through his then girlfriend Maxwell - but she has denied this in the court documents.
One of Epstein's victims, who received a payout from the millionaire's compensation fund, said ‘one of them is lying’. The 36-year-old mum added that the two had been ‘like peas in a pod, backing each other every step of the way’.
The court documents revealed that Maxwell had said Prince Andrew knew Epstein, but she did not know how they had met. In an exchange with the alleged victim's lawyer in April 2016, Maxwell said ‘I never introduced Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein at any time ever.’
Maxwell also said that Virginia Giuffre's supposed meetings with the Duke of York were a ‘tissue of lies’. When asked if she had ever introduced Andrew to any girls under the age of 18, she said ‘I have not introduced Prince Andrew to anyone that I am aware of.’
In response to the court documents, Prince Andrew again strenuously denied Ms Giuffre's claims. He was famously quizzed about how he met Epstein in a BBC Newsnight interview in November 2019. Following the interview, he stepped back from public life and lost his HRH title.
On Friday, another document was unsealed which revealed an interview with one of Epstein's former housekeepers, who said Andrew had spent ‘weeks’ at the financier's Florida home and had ‘daily massages’. There are also fresh claims that he had participated in an ‘underage orgy’. Prince Andrew settled a claim by Ms Giuffre for an undisclosed sum in 2022.
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