THE UGLY TRUTH
Sex accuser exposes ‘quick and disgusting’ Prince Andrew
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17, made devastating allegations in an interview last night.
Prince Andrew’s sex accuser says in a new interview that their first time in bed was quick and “disgusting” — while calling out his “BS” and the “ridiculous excuses” given for his behavior.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, in a teary BBC sit-down that aired Monday, claimed she was sex-trafficked to the royal by his rich pedophile pal, Jeffrey Epstein, at a London townhouse in 2001.
“There was a bath, and it started there, and then it led into the bedroom,” said Giuffre, who was 17 at the time.
“It didn’t last very long, the whole entire procedure,” she said of her sex session with the prince. “It was disgusting,” she said. “He wasn’t mean or anything,” Giuffre said of the divorced, then41-year-old prince.
But afterward, the father of two just “got up, and he said thanks, and then he walked out. And I sat there in bed and felt ashamed and dirty. I had just been abused by a member of the royal family.”
Giuffre, now a 36-year-old mother of three, said Epstein used her as his sex slave while she got “passed around like a platter of fruit’’ to his powerful friends for nearly two years.
“This is not some sordid sex story,” she said. “This is a story of being trafficked. This is a story of abuse.
“And this is a story of your guys’ royalty,” she told the UK show “Panorama,” imploring its viewers to “stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being OK.”
Giuffre said she was sex-trafficked to the prince three times, a claim Andrew has vehemently denied. He told the BBC in an interview that aired last month, “I have no recollection of ever meeting this woman.’’
Giuffre’s sit-down was taped in
October — before Andrew’s disastrous November interview with the BBC that was full of bizarre explanations about why she couldn’t be telling the truth.
Giuffre has since told “Panorama’’ that she stands by her claims, the BBC said on Monday.
“The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses” involving Andrew, Giuffre said in her follow-up.
“I’m calling BS on this. He knows what happened. I know what happened. And there’s only one of us telling the truth. And I know that it’s me.’’
In her interview, Giuffre told the BBC that her brief sexual encounters with the prince began after she was flown to London by Epstein in March 2001 and his socialite then-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, took her to the nightclub Tramp, where the teen partied with Andrew.
Giuffre said Andrew bought her
a drink and asked her to dance.
“He is the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said with a slight chuckle.
“I mean, it was horrible, and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like — it was raining basically everywhere,’’ Giuffre said, repeating a claim she has made about the prince.
“And I was just, like, grossed out from it,” Giuffre said, mimicking retching at the memory.
“But I knew I had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would expect from me.”
Maxwell has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the case.
Andrew suggested in his BBC interview that Giuffre was lying — because his service in the Falklands War had left him with a condition that made him unable to sweat. Photos have since surfaced challenging his odd denial.
He also denied being at the club at all, claiming he remembered going to a pizza joint outside London with his daughter Princess Beatrice on that exact day 18 years ago. Still, he said they went in the early evening, and no one has corroborated his alibi.
Giuffre said that after the pair’s night of clubbing, the prince was driven in his own chauffeured car back to Maxwell’s London pad while she and Ghislaine were taken separately to the home.
“In the car, Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey — and that just made me sick,” Giuffre said.
“I just didn’t expect it from royalty,” Giuffre said of Andrew. “I didn’t expect it from someone people look up to and admire in the royal family.’’
Giuffre claimed that the next day, after she had sex with Andrew, “Ghislaine said, ‘ You did a really good job,’ and pats me on the back and says, ‘You made him really happy.’ ”
Giuffre briefly stopped the interview while describing the memory because she was crying.
“It was a wicked time in my life,” said Giuffre, who has described being sexually and emotionally abused by others since age 7.
“I wasn’t chained to a sink. But these powerful people were my chains. And I couldn’t comprehend how in the highest level of government powerful people were allowing this to happen. Not only allowing it to happen but participating in it.”
The interview came as new details emerged that could challenge some of Andrew’s claims.
While the royal has insisted he doesn’t recall meeting Giuffre, an e-mail from the prince shows she was at least on his mind four years ago, the BBC said.
The broadcaster said it had a copy of an e-mail sent “From: Duke of York” to Maxwell in 2015 — the year Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation amid Giuffre’s claims that Epstein raped and trafficked her.
“Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts,” the note reads.
Maxwell replied, “Have some info. Call me when you have a moment,” according to the BBC.
The prince has also suggested that the photo allegedly showing him with his arm around Giuffre on that March night in 2001 is fake — because he doesn’t hug in public.
Photos of the prince through the years have surfaced showing him engaged in heavy public displays of affection with women.
The BBC said it has an affidavit from Giuffre’s boyfriend in 2001 saying that he saw the picture of her with the prince at the time and that she told him she was forced to have sex with the royal.
The photographer whom Giuffre had allowed to snap a copy of the shot, making it public, added to the broadcaster, “There’s no way that photo is fake.
“It wasn’t like [Giuffre] pulled the photo of Prince Andrew out — it was just in amongst the rest of them,’’ he said. “These were 5-by-7 photos that looked like they had come from [a London drugstore], nothing more complicated than that. They were just typical teenage snaps.”
Buckingham Palace, in a statement to the BBC, said: “It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”
Epstein, 66, died behind bars in Manhattan in August while awaiting sex-trafficking charges.
US prosecutors are reportedly continuing to investigate his alleged accomplices.