Prince Andrew’s Epstein Interview ‘A Plane Crashing Into An Oil Tanker’
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LONDON (AP) – British media have slammed Prince Andrew´s effort to rebut claims that he had sex with a woman who says she was trafficked as a teenager by Jeffrey Epstein, branding the interview a public relations disaster.
In a rare interview with BBC Newsnight broadcast Saturday, Andrew categorically denied having sex with the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. But Britain´s newspapers and social media commentators are criticizing him for still defending his friendship with Epstein and failing to show sympathy for the convicted sex offender’s victims.
“I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at.”
Prince Andrew disputes claims he had a sweaty dance with a woman who made allegations against him bbc.in/2QpVehe#Newsnight
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Even some who closely follow the Royal Family, such as the editor of the Royal Central website, offered more shock than sympathy. Charlie Proctor wrote on Twitter: “I expected a train wreck. That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion-level bad.”
In a rare interview with BBC Newsnight broadcast Saturday, Andrew categorically denied having sex with the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. But Britain´s newspapers and social media commentators are criticizing him for still defending his friendship with Epstein and failing to show sympathy for the convicted sex offender’s victims.
“I didn’t sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at.”
Prince Andrew disputes claims he had a sweaty dance with a woman who made allegations against him bbc.in/2QpVehe#Newsnight
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Even some who closely follow the Royal Family, such as the editor of the Royal Central website, offered more shock than sympathy. Charlie Proctor wrote on Twitter: “I expected a train wreck. That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion-level bad.”
'I let the side down': Prince Andrew tells BBC's Emily Maitlis he was wrong to stay with Jeffrey Epstein but has 'no recollection' of meeting billionaire paedophile's 'slave' who says she had sex with him three times
- Duke of York has faced scrutiny over friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
- Andrew said he kicks himself 'daily' for staying with Epstein after his conviction
- Virginia Roberts alleges she was coerced into having sex with Andrew 3 times
- Claims she was flown to London by Epstein on his 'Lolita Express' jet to see Duke
- Duke said he had 'no recollection whatsoever' of meeting accuser Miss Roberts
- Newsnight special with Andrew will be broadcast on BBC 2 at 9pm on Saturday
- Andrew strenuously denies allegations of 'impropriety with underage minors'
Prince Andrew has admitted he let the Queen and the Royal Family down by becoming involved with a paedophile billionaire.
In a ‘make or break’ TV interview about the scandal, he said he regretted going to stay with Jeffrey Epstein in New York after the financier’s release from prison on child sex offences.
‘The problem was the fact that once he had been convicted I stayed with him.
‘That’s the bit I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal Family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that,’ he told the BBC’s Emily Maitlis.
‘The problem was the fact that once he had been convicted I stayed with him,’ the duke told the BBC’s Emily Maitlis
Andrew (left) also again rejects the claim by one of Epstein’s (right) victims, Virginia Roberts, that he had sex with her when she was 17
Andrew also again rejects the claim by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts, that he had sex with her when she was 17.
The prince says he does not even remember meeting Miss Roberts, despite the existence of a photograph showing him with his arm around the teenager’s bare waist alongside Epstein’s alleged ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell.
‘She says she met you in 2001, she says she dined with you, danced with you at Tramp nightclub in London. She went on to have sex with you in a house in Belgravia belonging to Ghislaine Maxwell, your friend. Your response?’ asks Miss Maitlis.
The programme will feature Andrew's confrontation with allegations made by Epstein accuser Miss Roberts that she was flown to London on Epstein's private jet, nicknamed the 'Lolita Express', for sex with the prince who she has called 'an abuser'
Jack Scarola, a leading member of Virginia Roberts’ legal team, told Mail Online he would like the duke to submit to an interview 'under oath' instead of giving statements to the media that carry 'little weight'
Virginia Roberts (pictured) alleges she was coerced by paedophile US businessman Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the Duke, into having sex with Andrew on three occasions
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ABC anchor: British royals
‘threatened us a million different ways’ over Prince Andrew/Jeffrey Epstein
story
If royals threatened to withhold interviews with Prince
William and Kate Middleton, it wouldn’t be the first time they have been
accused of trying to protect Andrew in the Epstein scandal.
Prince Andrew, Duke of
York (Left). Billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (Right).
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PUBLISHED: November 5, 2019 at 2:01 pm |
UPDATED: November 5, 2019 at 2:25 pm
ABC News is facing
difficult questions Tuesday over anchor Amy Robach’s hot mic complaints that
the network killed her investigative story about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged
trafficking of underaged “sex slaves” and his circle of rich and powerful
friends, including Prince Andrew.
But ABC is not the only
institution that’s been embarrassed by the leaked video clip of Robach, which
was released by the right-wing group Project Veritas.
The British royal family
will once again face questions and backlash over Andrew’s decade-long
association with Epstein. That’s because Robach said “the palace” —
presumably Buckingham Palace — put pressure on the network to suppress the
story.
Robach said the story was
to include a 2015 interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s
alleged “sex slaves.” Giuffre, 35, has claimed in a lawsuit and in interviews
that she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times in 2001 when she was
17.
Robach said the palace
threatened to deny the network interviews with star royals, like Prince William
and Kate Middleton, if it aired her report.
“I’ve had this interview
with Virginia Roberts … we would not put it on the air,” Robach said on camera.
“First of all, I was told ‘Who’s Jeffrey Epstein?’ … Then the palace found out
that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a
million different ways.”
“We were so afraid we
wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that this also quashed the story,”
Robach continued. She added that attorney Alan Dershowitz also pressured
ABC to kill the story.
On Tuesday, ABC scrambled to address Robach’s complaints. The
video was recorded in late August in the network’s Times Square studio, the Associated Press
reported. Project Veritas said the video came from “an ABC insider.”
In a statement to the
Associated Press, ABC said it did not air Giuffre’s interview three years ago
because it did not meet the network’s standards and because it lacked
sufficient corroborating evidence. But ABC insisted that the network “never
stopped investigating the story” and is preparing a two-hour documentary
and six-part podcast on Epstein to air in the new year.
Robach, who co-anchors
“20/20” and reports for “Good Morning America,” attempted to walk back from her
on-camera complaints. In a statement, she said she was “caught in a private
moment of frustration” because her story never aired. She agreed that the story
didn’t meet the network’s standards in 2015.
“The interview itself,
while I was disappointed it didn’t air, didn’t meet our standards,” Robach said
in her statement. “In the years since no one ever told me or the team to stop
reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, and we have continued to aggressively pursue this
important story.”
But in the video, Robach
expressed confidence that the network had corroborating evidence. She also was
visibly exasperated as she said, “I tried for three years to get (the
interview) on to no avail and now it’s coming out and it’s like these ‘new
revelations’ and I freaking had all of it.”
Robach is likely
referring to revelations that have emerged since Epstein’s Aug. 10 death in a
Manhattan jail where he was being held on new sex trafficking allegations.
The New York City Medical
Examiner has ruled Epstein’s death a suicide and has rejected a statement last
week by a former New York City medical examiner that findings in Epstein’s
autopsy were “more consistent” with homicide. In the video, Robach expressed
confidence that Epstein’s death was a murder, not a suicide.
The controversy over
Epstein’s death inspired the hashtags #EpsteinSuicideCoverUp and
#EpsteinCoverup, the latter of which Project Veritas promoted in its Tuesday
tweets about the Robach clip.
According to the
Associated Press, Project Veritas is known for its efforts to try and embarrass
mainstream media outlets, often sending undercover reporters to catch employees
making statements that display an anti-conservative bent.
But AP noted that it
needed no such help with the Robach video, which also raised comparisons to
reporter Ronan Farrow’s accusations that NBC News discouraged his
reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. After Farrow
took his story to the New Yorker magazine, the Weinstein revelations helped
spark the #MeToo movement.
In an interview with NPR in August, Giuffre
talked about her 2015 interview with ABC and expressed confusion about it never
aired. NPR reported that ABC never explained its editorial reasons for not
airing the interview.
“I viewed the ABC
interview as a potential game changer,” she said. “Appearing on ABC with its
wide viewership would have been the first time for me to speak out against the
government for basically looking the other way and to describe the anger and
betrayal victims felt.”
The release of the video clip comes as Andrew, 59, has faced
intensified scrutiny over his friendship with Epstein. David Boies, an attorney
representing Guiffre, told Vanity Fair in July that the royal family has actively worked to “discredit” her allegations
against Andrew, who is said to be the queen’s favorite son.
Vanity Fair also reported
that Andrew’s situation could have been a factor in the lenient plea deal and
13-month jail sentence Epstein received in 2008, when he originally was charged
with sexual abuse of minors.
There is speculation that
the deal, crafted by former federal prosecutor Alex Acosta (who resigned as
Donald Trump’s labor secretary) was at least in part designed to help protect
Andrew, Vanity Fair said. According to one theory, George W. Bush’s White
House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein to protect Andrew on behalf of
the British government, then the U.S.’s closest ally in the Iraq war.
Andrew and Buckingham
Palace have repeatedly denied he had sex with Guiffre or that he knew of
Epstein’s illegal activities.
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Buckingham palace also declined to
directly address claims Robach made in the video about the royal family putting
pressure on ABC. In a
statement to People magazine, a spokesperson
only said, “This is a matter for ABC.”
Buckingham Palace also has tried to downplay his friendship with
Epstein, which Andrew said ended in 2010 when he last visited Epstein at his
Manhattan mansion.
During that December
2010 visit, Andrew and Epstein were
photographed walking together in Central Park. Reports also say the prince
enjoyed the financier’s lavish hospitality, including an intimate dinner party
thrown in his honor with such media celebrities as ABC TV anchor George Stephanopoulos,
as well as Katie Couric and Charlie Rose. Comedian Chelsea Handler and
Documentary:
Prince Andrew Took Part in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orgy with Nine Underage Girls
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A documentary that aired in the United Kingdom on Monday includes
claims that Prince Andrew and the now-dead sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein took
part in an orgy with nine underage girls on Epstein’s private-island estate.
While the royal long dubbed “Randy
Andy” has strenuously denied being involved in his friend’s sex ring, the
salacious details already leaking from “The Prince and the Pedophile” have only
intensified the spotlight on the friendship that Andrew has admitted was a
“mistake and an error.”
The special by Channel 4’s
“Dispatches” is taking a deep dive into the pair’s close ties — including the
claims in 2015 court papers that they had group sex on Epstein’s so-called
“orgy island” of Little St James, according to the Times
of London.
“The third time I had sex with Andy
was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands. I was
around 18 at the time,” longtime accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote in the
Florida court docs.
“Epstein, Andy, approximately eight
other young girls and I had sex together,” Giuffre said in the Post article. “The
other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really
speak English.”
“Epstein laughed about the fact they
couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls to get
along with,” Giuffre said.
“‘Dispatches’ will prove Andrew met
Epstein at least 10 times during their 12-year friendship and the royal
sometimes stayed with him for several days, according to the Times,” the Post reported.
Epstein, who committed suicide last
summer in a Manhattan jail cell, saw Prince Andrew as his most valuable
“trophy” of the high-profile people he liked “collecting,” socialite Lady
Victoria Hervey said in the documentary
titled, “The Prince and the Pedophile.”
The Times is cited as the source in the Post report
on “Dispatches” obtaining Giuffre’s medical records that confirm her abuse
claims, including vaginal bleeding that lasted for weeks.
“Without going into the details of
the sexual activities I was forced to endure, there were times when I was
physically abused to the point that I remember fearfully thinking that I didn’t
know whether I was going to survive,” Giuffre wrote in a legal statement from
2015, according to the Times.
“At no stage during the limited time
I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behavior of the sort that
subsequently led to his arrest and conviction,” Prince Andrew has said.
“Buckingham Palace has also said
that ‘any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically
untrue,’” the Post reported.
Jeffrey Epstein 'tried to
SUE Sarah Ferguson for calling him a paedophile' as she scrambled to cope with
the fallout over £15K gift from ex-husband Prince Andrew's former friend to
help clear her debts
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The Duchess of
York was threatened with legal action by Jeffrey Epstein
·
It
came after she publicly called him a paedophile it has been claimed
·
She made the
statement in an interview after it emerged she had accepted £15,000 from her
ex-husband's former friend to help clear a personal debt
·
The
Duchess of York was threatened with legal action by disgraced financier Jeffrey
Epstein after she publicly called him a paedophile, it has been claimed.
Sarah
Ferguson made the statement in a 2011 interview after it emerged she had
accepted £15,000 from her ex-husband's former friend to help clear a personal
debt.
Epstein
had given the money to one of Fergie's assistants at the request of Prince
Andrew.
But the
payment, which came after Epstein's release from prison over child sex
offences, caused a furore when it became public.
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Sarah Ferguson (pictured) made the statement
in a 2011 interview after it emerged she had accepted £15,000 from her
ex-husband's former friend to help clear a personal debt
The duchess subsequently accepted she had
made a 'gigantic error of judgement' and offered a 'heartfelt' apology.
Speaking to the Evening Standard she said: 'I
deeply regret Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor
paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic
error of judgment on my behalf.
'I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever
I can I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey
Epstein ever again. What he did was wrong and for which he was rightly jailed.'
According to sources, Epstein – clearly in
denial about the scale of his crimes – was incensed by her suggestion he was a
paedophile.
The billionaire was convicted in 2008 of
procuring an under-age girl for prostitution and served 13 months in
jail.
The billionaire (pictured) was convicted in
2008 of procuring an under-age girl for prostitution and served 13 months in
jail
He was facing numerous further charges of
sex-trafficking earlier this year when he killed himself in his cell in New
York.
In 2011 it is understood Epstein hired an
unnamed firm of lawyers to sue the duchess, unless she retracted her media
statement.
At the same time he took on the services of
crisis management PR firm Sitrick & Co to deal with the scandal over his
friendship with Andrew, who was infamously photographed with the shamed
billionaire following his release from prison.
The firm, which confirms it provided
'consulting advice and public relations services concerning Epstein's
relationship with Prince Andrew', advised him how to handle the media storm.
As a result of the outcry, the Queen's son
was forced to publicly apologise and lost his job as a roving UK trade
ambassador. In 2014 Sitrick sued Epstein for £65,000 in unpaid fees relating to
their services.
In recently re-surfaced court papers, which
meticulously chart what the PR firm did on Epstein's behalf, it includes a
reference on March 15, 2011 to 'work on statement for Fergie'. Two days later,
on March 17, 2011, it adds 'revise suggested statement for Fergie'.
A
source close to the duchess said yesterday that the 'for Fergie' reference
relates to a statement drafted for Epstein which he was trying to get her to
release.
The
source added: 'Epstein tried to force the duchess to release a statement
retracting her suggestion that he was a paedophile which he had drafted by his
PR firm.
'Epstein
was very unpleasant and very aggressive. She stuck to her guns despite the
pressure being put on her and refused to comply.'
Eventually
Epstein halted his threat of legal action.
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Virginia Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell
in early 2001. Virginia Roberts has accused Andrew of having sexual
relations with her when she was under-age, something Buckingham Palace and the
prince have strenuously denied
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Since
his death, which led to all criminal charges being dropped, several of his
alleged victims are now suing his estate for damages.
They
include Virginia Roberts, who has also accused Andrew of having sexual
relations with her when she was under-age, something Buckingham Palace and the
prince have strenuously denied.
Andrew
has also tried to distance himself from Epstein's activities, saying in a
statement last month: 'At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did
I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to
(Epstein's) arrest and conviction.'
'Sex slave'
Virginia Roberts 'went to hospital with internal bleeding following Jeffrey
Epstein orgies' - as she claims paedophile 'graded' her performance after she
slept with Prince Andrew
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New documentary airs claims Virginia Roberts
had sex with Andrew after photo
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She said in a court document that she felt
'graded' by Epstein after the meeting
·
Programme also unearthed medical records that
appear to support abuse claims
Medical
records show Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victim Virginia Roberts was admitted to
hospital in New York at the time she says she was suffering regular sexual
abuse.
The
evidence against Epstein - and details of his friendship with British royal
Prince Andrew - was set out in a Channel 4 documentary last night.
It
re-examined Virginia Roberts's court evidence from 2015 in which she told how
she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with his many friends.
As part
of that activity, she alleges, she had sex with Prince Andrew three times; the
first time in London in 2001, the second time in New York and the third in an
orgy in the US Virgin Islands.
According
to Channel 4's Dispatches programme, The Prince And the Paedophile, Mrs Roberts
later feared for her life due to the amount of sexual abuse she suffered at the
hands of Epstein and his associates.
The
programme obtained medical records from a New York hospital that shows that Ms
Roberts, suffered three weeks of vaginal bleeding from the 9th of July 2001.
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According to court documents, Ms Roberts
was brought to London by
Epstein in March 2001, when she was 17, and met the Prince at a house in
Belgravia.
Ms
Roberts said she was excited to meet a real Prince and wanted a picture taken
of her and Andrew together to send back to her family back in the United
States.
So she
handed her own camera to Epstein, who took the widely published photo of Andrew
with his hand around her.
She
alleges that moments after the photo was taken, she and the Prince went into a
bedroom and bathroom, where they had sex.
The
accuser claims she later felt like she was being 'graded' on her performance by
the disgraced paedophile financier, who told her: 'You did well, the Prince had
fun.'
The
programme cites a court deposition made in January 2015 as part of a defamation
case brought by Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
In it,
Ms Roberts claimed she had sex with Prince Andrew three times, the first at the
house in Belgravia, a second time at Epstein's house in Manhattan and the third
time in an 'orgy on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands'.
Referring
to the third time, Ms Roberts said she was 18 at the time and that the Prince,
Epstein and 'approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together'.
·
·
She
said Epstein had joked that the girls couldn't communicate well due to a language
barrier and that he said they were the 'easiest' girls to get along with.
Prince
Andrew has vehemently denied her claims and Ms Roberts' evidence was
thrown out by a court in May 2015.
Earlier
this year Buckingham Palace said: 'Any suggestion of impropriety with underage
minors is categorically untrue.' and 'It is emphatically denied that the Duke
of York had any form of sexual contact with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the
contrary is false and without foundation.'
Prince
Andrew said of Epstein: 'At no stage during the limited time I spent with him
did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led
to his arrest and conviction.'
The
documentary also unearthed claims that Epstein had '13 contact numbers for
Prince Andrew' in an address book.
Discovered
at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the address book was found to have
contact details for several of the Duke of York's residences, including
Buckingham Palace.
British
socialite Lady Victoria Hervey told Dispatches that Epstein, who killed himself
in prison, was 'addicted to collecting people' such as the royal.
'Andrew
was kind of like newly single... And he meets this charismatic man – Jeffrey
collected people. He was almost addicted to collecting important people.
'He
liked to impress people. So, the British Royal Family, can you imagine? This
was his biggest kind of trophy.'
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Andrew says he first met Epstein in 1999, around the same time he had a
brief romance with Lady Victoria.
An unnamed friend of Epstein told the programme the prince's friendship
with the American after his 2009 conviction for having sex with underage girls
was 'more than a lack of judgment' and showed hubris.
The friend added: 'You begin to believe you can't be damaged. You're
beyond being damaged. The little people out there can't touch you.'
He said he warned Epstein against having the prince visit him in New
York in 2010 following his spell in prison for sex offences. He claims he told
Epstein: 'They will attack Prince Andrew for being your friend, and each of you
will lose... And I remember him saying: 'No one will know'.'
The warnings proved correct and the pair were photographed together in
Central Park. Andrew admits he knew Epstein for 12 years but has strongly
denied any inappropriate behaviour with underage girls.
Dai Davis, who was in charge of royal protection for the Metropolitan
Police in the 1990s, said he was 'mystified' as to why Scotland Yard did not
investigate.
Epstein hanged himself in August in prison in New York while awaiting
trial for sex trafficking charges.
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·
Documentary:
Prince Andrew Took Part in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orgy with Nine Underage Girls
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
21 Oct 2019418
2:41
A documentary that aired in the United Kingdom on Monday
includes claims that Prince Andrew and the now-dead sexual predator Jeffrey
Epstein took part in an orgy with nine underage girls on Epstein’s
private-island estate.
While
the royal long dubbed “Randy Andy” has strenuously denied being involved in his
friend’s sex ring, the salacious details already leaking from “The Prince and
the Pedophile” have only intensified the spotlight on the friendship that
Andrew has admitted was a “mistake and an
error.”
The
special by Channel 4’s “Dispatches” is taking a deep dive into the pair’s close
ties — including the claims in 2015 court papers that they had group sex on
Epstein’s so-called “orgy island” of Little St James, according
to the Times of London.
“The third time I had sex
with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
I was around 18 at the time,” longtime accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote
in the Florida court docs.
“Epstein,
Andy, approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together,” Giuffre
said in the Post article.
“The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t
really speak English.”
“Epstein laughed about the
fact they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls
to get along with,” Giuffre said.
“‘Dispatches’
will prove Andrew met Epstein at least 10 times during their 12-year friendship
and the royal sometimes stayed with him for several days, according to
the Times,”
the Post reported.
Epstein,
who committed suicide last summer in a Manhattan jail cell, saw Prince Andrew
as his most valuable “trophy” of the high-profile people he liked “collecting,”
socialite Lady Victoria Hervey said in the documentary
titled, “The Prince and the Pedophile.”
The Times is cited as the
source in the Post report
on “Dispatches” obtaining
Giuffre’s medical records that confirm her abuse claims, including vaginal
bleeding that lasted for weeks.
“Without
going into the details of the sexual activities I was forced to endure, there
were times when I was physically abused to the point that I remember fearfully
thinking that I didn’t know whether I was going to survive,” Giuffre wrote in a
legal statement from 2015, according to the Times.
“At no stage during the limited
time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behavior of the sort
that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction,” Prince Andrew has said.
“Buckingham
Palace has also said that ‘any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors
is categorically untrue,’” the Post reported.
Report:
UK Security Fears Russia May Link Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein Abuse
22 Sep 2019111
2:48
The UK’s
main external security unit MI6 fears Russia may possess information
potentially linking Prince Andrew to the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse scandal,
says a security source.
The Secret
Intelligence Service is apparently worried a disgruntled ex-cop who fled the
U.S. and was granted political asylum in Russia might have “compromising
material on the royal”, the Times of
London reports, consisting of
direct evidence of the prince’s alleged 2001 tryst with then-17-year-old
Epstein “slave” Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre
claimed she was ordered to have sex to with Andrew and many of Epstein’s
powerful friends as a teenager — claims both Andrew and Buckingham Palace have
profusely denied.
Epstein was found dead from suicide by
hanging in a Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019, after he was charged with
multiple counts of sex trafficking.
The Times’ article draws
on the “bizarre case” of John Mark Dougan, a Marine Corps veteran and former
Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy who fled to Moscow in 2016 following an FBI raid on
his home in Florida.
Dougan, who
resigned from the force in 2009, angered police chiefs in America after setting
up whistleblower websites throughout the country for “good cops to spill their
secrets without fear or retribution”, according to his book, BadVolf.
The Times reports MI6 is
worried about how much Dougan knows of the original police investigation into
the billionaire pedo’s actitivites when based in Florida, and what information
the ex-cop might have shared with Russia.
The unnamed source told the paper: “His knowledge of the Epstein
case would have been of great interest to Russian intelligence.”
When
contacted in Moscow last week, Dougan agreed that details about Epstein might be “incredibly
valuable” for any intelligence agency and might give “leverage” over “a guy
like Prince Andrew”.
Dougan
claimed on Facebook in July he still possessed confidential documents no one
had seen, the Times said.
Prince Andrew’s name has been linked many times to the disgraced
tycoon.
As Breitbart New reported, Queen
Elizabeth II’s second son flew on
Epstein’s private jet on at least two
occasions with the disgraced multi-
millionaire’s alleged sex slave 17-year-
old Virginia Roberts on board, a pilot has
claimed.
Pilot David
Rodgers, 66, said in a deposition that
Prince Andrew and other VIP guests— including former President Bill Clinton,
disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, and model Naomi Campbell— also flew on the
private jet a number of times.
It is also claimed claimed that Prince Andrew was on the
maiden flight of Epstein’s “Lolita Express”— a Boeing 727-200 passenger jet
allegedly used to traffic underage girls to his private island in the Caribbean
— on August 7, 2001.
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