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Ghislaine Maxwell witness's bombshell for Prince Andrew:
Victim waives anonymity to claim Virginia Giuffre told a fellow
'sex slave' she slept with the Duke of York in London
By STEPHEN WRIGHT and BARBARA MCMAHON IN FLORIDA FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:31 EST, 7 January 2022
Virginia Roberts told a fellow Jeffrey Epstein ‘sex slave’ that she slept with Prince Andrew in London, it was claimed last night.
The then 17-year-old is also said to have shown the infamous picture of her posing at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home with the Queen’s second son.
In a world exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Carolyn Andriano says Miss Roberts texted her from London in March 2001 to say she was going for dinner with Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein.
Miss Roberts is alleged to have shown the picture to Mrs Andriano back in Florida, saying of the prince: ‘I got to sleep with him.’
Mrs Andriano, 35, gave harrowing testimony against Maxwell at her trial last month. Four of the five guilty verdicts against her were underpinned by the evidence of the married mother of five, including the most serious charge of sex trafficking a minor which carries a maximum 40-year jail term.
Today Mrs Andriano bravely waives her legal right to anonymity to tell the full story about her horrific ordeal in Epstein’s ‘House of Sin’ in Palm Beach, Florida – when she was aged 14 to 17 – and her then friendship with Miss Roberts, who she says, recruited her into Epstein and 60-year-old Maxwell’s sexual abuse ‘pyramid scheme’.
Her account of her conversations with Miss Roberts is the first time there has been any contemporaneous and independent report of the purported meeting with the Duke of York.
Mrs Andriano’s astonishing interview with the Daily Mail – for which she is not being paid – comes in the week that Andrew’s lawyers made a desperate courtroom bid to get Miss Roberts’ rape lawsuit against him in the US thrown out.
His legal bid is said to be hanging by a thread, with a judge expected to rule shortly. The duke strenuously denies any wrongdoing, and says he cannot remember meeting his accuser. Sources close to him have suggested that the picture of him with Miss Roberts may be fake.
Andrew’s lawyers are seeking to persuade the court that the 38-year-old – now based in Australia and known by her married name Giuffre – had waived her right to sue him when she signed an earlier £370,000 legal settlement with US financier Epstein, who killed himself on remand in prison.
In her interview with the Mail, Mrs Andriona says she believes what Miss Roberts told her in 2001 – ten years before the teen sex accuser first told her story in a Sunday newspaper.
Mrs Andriona said: ‘I asked her if she’d been to the palace. And she said “I got to sleep with him”. I said “What? You’re f****** with me” and she said “no, I got to sleep with him”. She didn’t seem upset about it. She thought it was pretty cool.’
Mrs Andriano, 35, (pictured) gave harrowing testimony against Maxwell at her trial last month
Mrs Andriona, who has been widely praised for her courageous testimony at Maxwell’s trial, added: ‘I waive my right to anonymity. I am doing this because I want all young women to know what happened to me when I was a teenager and how it has affected my life.
‘I want to be a voice for all survivors of sexual abuse so that they are not afraid to come forward, even if it is years after the event, and say what happened to them. This is my story and I want to tell it.’
Earlier this week Maxwell’s lawyers demanded a retrial after one of the jurors who convicted her of trafficking confessed to being a sex abuse victim.
Prosecutors who put Maxwell behind bars asked the trial judge for an investigation into the admission by Scotty David during media interviews. But the British socialite’s lawyers went further, saying it was ‘incontrovertible grounds for a new trial’.
Mr David is now likely to be summoned back to the New York courtroom.
Prince Andrew declined to comment.
Virginia Giuffre told me she'd slept with Prince Andrew just days after that trip to London with Jeffrey Epstein: Key witness at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial bravely waives her anonymity and makes a sensational new claim
There is much more to this story. Please visit The Daily Mail for the rest.
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Lord Peter Mandelson parties with Jeffrey Epstein in photo taken
after paedophile had been charged in underage sex probe
James Beal, The Sun
22:23, 8 Jan 2022
LORD Peter Mandelson grins as Jeffrey Epstein blows out the candles on a birthday cake in a photo taken months after the paedophile was charged in an underage sex probe.
The never-before-seen photograph shows Tony Blair’s former spin doctor at a party for the monster in his Paris lair.
Mandelson was European Commissioner for Trade on a taxpayer-funded salary of more than £200,000 while his companion in the pic had been publicly accused of sex acts with minors a year earlier.
Ex-Cabinet minister Mandelson had been introduced to Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell — just as she had introduced Prince Andrew to the billionaire US financier.
Maxwell was last month found guilty of procuring young girls for Epstein to abuse.
Prince Andrew and the “Prince of Darkness” — as Mandelson was known — also went on to enjoy a friendship, with the MP even lobbying for the duke to get a plum British trade posting.
The picture of Labour’s former Director of Communications with Epstein was taken after Epstein had been formally charged with soliciting a woman for prostitution in August 2006.
A US grand jury had refused to indict the ex-Wall Street trader on charges of sexual contact with minors — despite the police investigation uncovering evidence that he had abused underage girls.
Epstein eventually pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution in 2008 — after our photograph with Mandelson was taken.
But news articles published before the photo detailed how the late tycoon allegedly had massages from girls as young as 14 and engaged in sex acts with minors.
A source told The Sun on Sunday last night: “This demonstrates how astonishingly close Peter Mandelson was to Jeffrey Epstein, even as his crimes were being exposed.
“Peter undoubtedly has questions to answer over this.
There is more to this story on The Sun
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Case against Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner
set to crumble after investigators found he has an alibi
Michael Hamilton, The Sun
22:34, 8 Jan 2022
THE case against Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian B is set to crumble after British investigators found he has an alibi.
A team led by an ex-detective have discovered the sex predator, 44, was “30 minutes away” from the resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal, when Madeleine disappeared.
The case against Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner is set to crumble after British investigators found he has an alibi. A new TV programme is set to show Christian Brueckner's alibi 'stacks up'
Their TV programme, Madeleine McCann: Investigating the Prime Suspect, is set to demolish the case against Brueckner, who is in jail in Germany where authorities have said he killed her.
Phone records were said to show him near the scene the night she vanished aged three in 2007.
But the new probe led by former Surrey Police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, is said to show an alibi for Brueckner “stacks up”.
The TV team, who spent months in Portugal and Germany, found new witnesses in both countries who throw his guilt into doubt.
Our source said: “They have concluded Brueckner could not have snatched Madeleine. He was 30 minutes away and was not on the phone in Praia da Luz the night she vanished.”
The three-parter is set to air on Channel 5 soon.
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