Andrew joined paedophile’s island orgy, accuser claimed

Prince Andrew was involved in an orgy with Jeffrey Epstein and nine girls on the financier’s private island, it is claimed in a TV documentary to be broadcast overnight.

The claim was made by one of the women, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pictured, in US court documents. The Duke of York has denied ever having sex with her.

A photo of the prince with his arm around her waist, taken when she was about 17, emerged in 2011, but his supporters have suggested that the image was faked. Roberts Giuffre alleges that she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with his powerful friends, including Prince Andrew, three times.

In August Epstein, a convicted paedophile, committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on sex charges. Overnight a special edition of Channel 4’s Dispatches entitled The Prince and the

Paedophile, examines her claim to have had sex with the two men on Little St James, Epstein’s Caribbean island.

‘‘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,’’ she wrote in evidence to a Florida court in 2015. ‘‘Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together. 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." Roberts Giuffre has never spoken in public about the orgy allegation, and Buckingham Palace has denied that the Duke of York had any sexual contact with her.

However, Dispatches obtained medical records that appear to support her claim to have been abused by Epstein or others on separate occasions. Documents from New York Presbyterian Hospital show that she was admitted on July 9, 2001 after three weeks of vaginal bleeding. In a separate legal declaration from 2015, Roberts Giuffre wrote: ‘‘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.’’

There is no suggestion that she was speaking about Prince Andrew.