British Prince Andrew touched a young woman’s breasts at the mansion of 66-year-old American multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sex trafficking underage girls. That is according to court documents in the Epstein case, The Guardian reported.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late British parliamentarian and media mogul of Jewish descent Robert Maxwell, was also involved in the case. She is accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein and his social circle, which included famous and influential people.
American Virginia Giuffre sued Maxwell back in 2015. She alleged that Maxwell had defamed her and that Epstein had forced her into sexual relations with Prince Andrew.
Buckingham Palace has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s allegations. In a statement released in 2015, Buckingham Palace said that “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue” and flatly denied that Prince Andrew had ever had sexual contact with Giuffre.
“It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Giuffre. The allegations made are false and without any foundation,” the royal family later said.
Another woman appears in the documents: Johanna Sjöberg, who also testified in the case. “I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap. And so then I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe on my own volition, and he took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine,” Sjoberg said.
Giuffre herself alleges that Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was 16. The document also contains a photograph that, according to Giuffre’s lawyers, shows Andrew “with his hand around Ms. Giuffre’s bare waist.”
- Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 7, when his plane, arriving from Paris, landed at an airport in New Jersey. He was charged with human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The Epstein case has drawn particular attention also because the billionaire is well acquainted with current U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, Duke of York.
- In early July, it emerged that the FBI had found thousands of names of celebrities, politicians, movie stars and businesspeople in the address book of the arrested American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
- U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigned over the fallout from the scandal surrounding financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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