Irish Independent

Claims: Epstein ‘victim’ calls for public support in interview

- Laura Elston

PRINCE Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre has called for the support of the British people and called the denials “bulls**t” .

Ms Giuffre has claimed she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and forced to have sex with Andrew when she was a teenager, which the British prince categorica­lly denies.

Ms Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida that she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17, below the state’s age of consent.

In an interview with BBC ‘Panorama’ broadcast last night, she told how Andrew was “the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life” and “his sweat was ... raining basically everywhere”.

She added: “I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being OK. This is not some sordid sex story. This is a story of being trafficked. This is a story of abuse and this is a story of your guys’ royalty.”

In the programme ‘The Prince and the Epstein Scandal’, Ms Giuffre alleged she was brought to London by Epstein and his then girlfriend, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2001.

She says she was introduced to Andrew, taken to Tramp nightclub, and asked by the prince to dance.

She told reporter Darragh Macintyre: “He is the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen.

“It was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, his sweat was, like, it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it, but I knew I had to keep him

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