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Convicted baby intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has stated a decades-old {photograph} of Prince Andrew along with his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is “fake,” in a collection of interviews from jail.
The disgraced British socialite is at present serving a 20-year sentence in US federal jail for finishing up a years-long scheme together with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage women.
Speaking from a Florida jail to UK broadcaster TalkTV, which aired a particular program on Monday evening, the 61-year-old – who additionally seems within the {photograph} – stated she doesn’t “believe it happened.”
“I don’t believe it is real for a second, in fact, I’m sure it’s not. There has never been an original. I don’t believe it happened and certainly, the way it’s described would have been impossible. I don’t have any memory of going to Tramp [nightclub],” Maxwell stated.
Prince Andrew, who’s one in every of King Charles III’s youthful brothers, has strenuously denied Giuffre’s allegation that he was launched to her at London’s Tramp nightclub in 2001 with Maxwell, earlier than then-17-year-old Giuffre was allegedly pressured to carry out intercourse acts with the British royal.
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit in a US court docket in 2021 towards Andrew, who’s also called the Duke of York, alleging sexual abuses whereas she was a minor on a number of events. Andrew later settled out of court docket for an undisclosed determine with out admitting any wrongdoing and the case was dismissed. Still, the allegations towards the senior royal severely tarnished his repute. He stepped again from royal duties in late 2019 and was stripped of his army titles and royal patronages final 12 months.
A spokesperson for Giuffre’s US attorneys, David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, instructed that neither their consumer or the attorneys would touch upon Maxwell’s remarks right now, AFP reported.
Maxwell appeared to indicate little regret to Epstein’s victims and supplied no apology within the interviews broadcast Monday. Instead, she stated the victims ought to “take their disappointment and upset out on the authorities who allowed” the billionaire pedophile to die in jail.
Maxwell additionally advised TalkTV that she believes Epstein was murdered – a conspiracy concept for which she supplied no proof. Authorities dominated Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas he was awaiting trial on federal expenses accusing him of sexually abusing underage women.
Regarding the victims, Maxwell stated, “I hope they have some closure via the judicial process that took place.”
Maxwell acknowledged throughout her sentencing listening to final 12 months that she had been convicted within the intercourse trafficking scheme however stopped wanting taking duty. She didn’t testify in her protection throughout the trial in late 2021, which ended together with her conviction on 5 counts, together with intercourse trafficking of a minor.