She begs the British to support her: the American woman who claims to have been forced to have sex with Prince Andrew under the influence of financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke on Monday, December 2, in an interview on the BBC.
"I beg the British to support me, to help me fight this fight, not to accept (...) the story of (sexual) abuse that concerns your royal family," she said. .
Virginia Roberts, Giuffre's wife, says she was introduced in 2001 to the second son of Queen Elizabeth II by Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend at the time, Ghislaine Maxwell, during a nightclub trip, where the Prince's would have invited to dance.
"It was horrible and this guy kept sweating on me," detailed one who was then only 17 years old. Virginia Giuffre says she was forced to have sex with him later in the evening, and then on two other occasions in New York and on the private Caribbean island of Jeffrey Epstein, who has since committed suicide in prison.
"Only one of us tells the truth"
The prince had "categorically" denied these accusations at the end of October in an interview deemed disastrous on the BBC that pushed him to withdraw from public life. He argued that an illness prevented him from sweating and that he did not remember meeting this young woman.
About a photograph where he held it by the hip, the Duke of York had previously claimed to have no memory, insinuating that it had been retouched. "The people involved will obviously continue to use these ridiculous excuses that one would have extended his arm or that the photo has been retouched," says Virginia Giuffre in the interview.
"It's bullshit!", She insurgent. "He knows what happened, I know what happened, and only one of us tells the truth." Virginia Giuffre assured that the photo was "authentic" and that she had given the original "to the FBI for their investigation".
No criminal investigation in London
The BBC program also reveals that the prince could be summoned to court if he returned to US soil, with the lawyers for five Epstein victims having asked him to testify in court. According to these victims, the Duke of York would have attended massage sessions given at the home of his friend Jeffrey Epstein, which is denied by the son of Elizabeth II.
Since filming this one-hour BBC program, Buckingham Palace has stated that Andrew "unequivocally regretted (his) misguided association with Jeffrey Epstein", but "categorically denied that the Duke of York had any contact or sexual relationship with Virginia Roberts ". The British police confirmed last week that there would be no criminal investigation in the UK.
With AFP