Epstein in ‘royal bedding’
Model: Pal was ordered to have sex with Andrew
A former model who now runs a Los Angeles modeling agency claims her friend had sex with Prince Andrew on the orders of Jeffrey Epstein, who said, “It’s nice to have things on people.”
Lisa Phillips, 42, told The Sun that she first met the financier in 2000 after a Caribbean shoot when he invited her and another pal to his Little St. James Island, which was dubbed “Pedophile Island.”
“I found Jeffrey very charming and he seemed really nice,” Phillips told the outlet. “I had mentioned I had lived in England and he said, ‘Oh, would you like to meet a prince?’
“This man walked up and I recognized him as Prince Andrew,” she added. “He was very nice. It was very brief.”
Phillips said she observed no inappropriate activity on the isle and that she wound up meeting Epstein during charity events, parties and Broadway plays over the years.
“He always wanted to meet friends of mine,” she told The Sun. “He loved young women but none of us suspected he liked underage girls.”
In 2004, Phillips said, her friend told her about the alleged encounter at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse.
“She told me Jeffrey told her to go into a bedroom and have sex with Prince Andrew. She said Andrew had sex with her and left the room. I think she was confused by Jeffrey — manipulated by him. She felt like she had to do it,” Phillips said.
“That’s why she was so angry, so upset. She thought they had a different relationship.
“I had one last conversation with Jeffrey. I said, ‘My friend told me about you instructing her to have sex with Prince Andrew.’ He said something like it wasn’t a big deal, that she was OK with it,” Phillips said.
“I said, ‘Nobody’s OK with that — why would you do that?’ He grinned and said, ‘Oh, it’s nice to have things on people.’ That wasn’t the first time he’d said that to me,” Phillips continued.
“He had a lot of cameras in the house and I used to ask him about it and he used to say the same thing,” said Phillips, whose allegations are scheduled to be aired on British TV on Tuesday night.
A source close to the prince responded to the allegations.
“Unsourced, unverified, unsubstantiated claims, regurgitated on third-hand hearsay with no evidence — as an allegation it doesn’t bear any examination,” the source said. “We look forward to seeing the evidence.”