Andrew ‘used his puppet to grope girl at Epstein’s home’
DONALD Trump yesterday appeared to support claims that paedophile Jeffery Epstein did not commit suicide in his prison cell.
During an interview on US television, the president was asked why he had sent good wishes to Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell – who has been charged with child sex trafficking – at a White House press conference last month.
Trump said: “Well, her boyfriend died in jail, and people are still trying to figure out how did it happen. Was it suicide? Was he killed?”
Pushed on why he had offered her his compassion, the president added: “Yeah, I’d wish her well. I’d wish you well, I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty.”
The President and Epstein both owned properties in Palm Beach, Florida, and were often photographed together.
Epstein was found hanging in his prison cell in August last year. His death was ruled a suicide, but his attorneys and some family members claim he was murdered to stop him talking.
PRINCE Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre has told in new court documents how he groped her breast using his Spitting Image puppet.
Ms Giuffre, 17 at the time, claimed the Duke “cupped” her with “a doll made in his image” in the lavishlyfurnished study of paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion.
She lso alleged that after many crude jokes she was made to lead him away to a dark room known as “the dungeon” for an erotic massage to “fulfil his seedy requests”.
The claims were made in the manuscript of Ms Giuffre’s as yet unpublished book, released by a US judge.
They mirror 2016 allegations by Epstein’s former PA Johanna Sjoberg, who said the Duke fondled her breast while she sat on his knee in the study.
The incident allegedly happened in 2001 when Epstein and pal Ghislaine Maxwell presented Andrew, now 60, with his puppet from the hit 1980s show at the mansion known to victims as The Houser of Horrors. Ms Guiffre, now 36, said she was summoned to billionaire’s Epstein’s study by Maxwell.
She claimed: “I cracked open the heavy wooden doors and a familiar face revealed itself. Prince Andrew had that notorious cheesy grin as he looked me up and down like a shiny new car.
“All I had to do was pretend to be entertained by their lewd gestures, and when Andrew cupped my breast with a doll made in his image, I giggled away.
“Ghislaine wanted to take a picture
Prince insisted he was at Pizza Express in Woking and even got Johanna to sit on his other knee, giving the impression girls couldn’t stay away from Randy Andy.”
Ms Giuffre has claimed in court she was loaned out to Andrew for sex three times by Epstein, allegations the Duke has vehemently denied.
Epstein died in jail last year and Maxwell has been arrested on a series of grooming and abuse charges. The mansion is up for sale for £69million.
Last night a spokesman for the Duke declined to comment.