‘CHESHIRE CAT’ GRIN THAT HAUNTS VICTIM
PRINCE Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts claims Ghislaine Maxwell had a ‘Cheshire smile’ when she allegedly picked out young girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.
Ms Roberts, who claims Epstein forced her to have sex with the Duke of York, said yesterday that Maxwell seemed delighted when she discussed her troubled youth and how she had been abused previously.
She described paedophile Epstein and his alleged madam Maxwell, 58, as ‘Pinocchio and Geppetto’ [the puppet’s creator].
‘Epstein was Pinocchio and she was Geppetto,’ said Ms Roberts. ‘She was pulling the strings, she had his money, he had her contacts but Ghislaine was much more fighting and smart than Epstein ever was.’
Maxwell, who is accused of abusing girls as young as 14, denies any wrongdoing.
Ms Roberts claims she met Maxwell at Donald Trump’s Florida estate Mar-a-lago when she was working as a locker room girl. Maxwell saw her reading a book about massage and said she knew a man who was looking for a travelling masseuse.
Talking to US TV network CBS, the motherof-three said Maxwell could ‘smell the vulnerability on the person’ including during her first massage session at Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaking over a picture of Maxwell smiling at a New York shop opening in 2005, Ms Roberts said: ‘I told them about my past and how I’d been abused and immediately it was like the Cheshire smile as I call it. I asked her, “Why are you having all these girls come in and sleep with your boyfriend?” She was like, “So I don’t have to do it all the time.” She made a joke out of it.’
Ms Roberts has claimed she was ‘loaned out’ by Epstein to Prince Andrew three times in 2001, when she was 17. Andrew has emphatically denied the claims and said he does not even remember meeting her.