Sunday Mirror

Andrew’s pal ‘shook with excitement’ before raping me as a teen Brit model on her ordeal at Epstein’s hands

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN US Editor

A BRITISH model says billionair­e paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “shook with excitement” before raping her when she was just a teenager.

Actress and ex- Playboy girl Anouska De Georgiou, 42, said just being alone together sent Prince Andrew’s pal into a frenzy.

She said: “When Jeffrey would see me he would physically shake because he wanted to get at me. That was very unnerving.”

Anouska, who attended Marlboroug­h College in Wilts, at the same time as Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, said the assaults came after a long process of grooming.

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She told NBC’s Dateline show in the US: “It wasn’t zero to 100 in one day. It was introduced piecemeal, along with constant emotional, financial reinforcem­ent that this was the path, the only path.

“In every location, there was this microcosm of acceptance, of ‘ yes’ people, who acted like this was normal.

“If you’re a young person walking into a mansion or someone’s island and all the people are acting as though this is OK and you’re the only one who thinks it’s weird, it’s hard to say something.”

Epstein, 66, hanged himself last month while awaiting trial for under-age sex traffickin­g.

Anouska, one of six victims to talk on Dateline, went on: “The only solace for me is that when a group of people who have experience­d trauma of this kind come together united against a common enemy, there’s a very special bond between us.

“I think the nature of this abuse means you are conditione­d to be silent, isolated, secretive and shameful.

“Jeffrey thought that we were disposable, and he threw us all away. And look who’s still standing.”

Virginia Giuffre – whose claim that she had sex with Prince Andrew, now 59, when she was a teenager is strongly denied – says Epstein paid doctors to drug his sex slaves.

She claims tranquilli­sers, anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax and anti- depressant­s were prescribed. Virginia, now 35, says: “There were doctors and psychiatri­sts and gynaecolog­ist visits.

“There were dentists who whitened our teeth.

“There was a doctor who gave me Xanax. What doctor in their right mind, who is supposed to protect their patients, gives girls and young women Xanax?”

There were all these ‘yes’ people who acted like this was normal ANOUSKA DE GEORGIOU ON ABUSE BY TYCOON

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