Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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servitude for Jeffrey kept me there. I suggested he take a seat while I rubbed his feet.
“By the look in his eyes, I knew he could care less about a foot massage, his real desires were being shown by the arousal his body was forming.
“He indicated where he wanted me to touch him and how.
“I fulfilled his seedy requests but only just. There was no pleasure in this for me, the only thing I derived from this event was to sink further into my slumber of depression.”
Giuffre, who now lives in Australia, details how such encounters in the house left her “feeling abhorrent and ashamed” and that she “scrubbed” her body everywhere Andrew had touched her. Pictures of the room in which the women claim to have been abused emerged as executors of the late financier’s will put up his New York home for sale.
The mansion, known to victims as the House of Horrors, is on the market for £69million.
His home in Palm Beach, Florida – where Prince Andrew also stayed – is on sale for £17.3million.
The women’s testimony and media interviews do contain slight inconsistencies over who was sat on Andrew’s lap and when, and whether he was on a “couch” or a “big leather armchair”.
Giuffre has claimed in court she was loaned out to father-of-two Andrew for sex three times by Epstein, the first in March 2001 in London.
In a 2015 court affidavit, she claimed she had sex with the Duke in Maxwell’s Belgravia home, Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and during an orgy on the financier’s private island in the Caribbean.
Her court claims were later struck out of the civil case by Florida federal judge Kenneth
Marra. He ruled: “The factual details regarding with whom and where the Jane Does engaged in sexual activities are immaterial and impertinent to this central claim.”
The Duke and his legal team have vehemently denied Giuffre’s claims.
On the BBC’S Newsnight in November, the royal questioned whether he had ever met her.
But lawyers for Giuffre say Sjoberg’s testimony “corroborates Ms Giuffre’s account of being lent out to Prince Andrew by defendant (Maxwell), as even the interaction Ms Sjoberg witnessed included a sexual act: Prince Andrew using a puppet to touch Ms Giuffre’s breast while using a hand to touch Ms Sjoberg’s breast.”
Yesterday a lawyer for Epstein’s trafficking victims said she had given the FBI information from a woman claiming she saw the Duke with Giuffre at a London nightclub.
Lisa Bloom said of alleged witness Shukri Walker: “She credibly alleges that she was there at the Tramp nightclub in 2001 and recalls explicitly Prince Andrew being there with
Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. She had never been in the presence of a royal before or since, and so it was very memorable to her.”
Amid the scandal, Andrew stepped down from royal duties last year.
Epstein committed suicide aged 66 last year while in prison awaiting trial for underage sex trafficking.
Last month Maxwell, the daughter of crooked media tycoon Robert Maxwell, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of grooming and abusing three girls aged under 18.
She has since been indicted on four charges relating to incidents from 1994 to 1997. Two other charges are allegations of perjury in 2016.
If found guilty, she faces up to 35 years in prison. Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty and is due for trial in July 2021.
US President Donald Trump has wished pal Maxwell “good luck” and questioned whether Epstein might actually have been murdered.
Last night a spokesperson for the Prince declined to comment.