Prince Andrew has been accused of taking part in an ‘underage orgy’ while staying at Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean home, nicknamed the ‘Island of Sin’, bombshell court documents claimed today.
This comes a year after the Duke of York settled the multi-million dollar case brought by Virginia Giuffre in 2022.
Today it emerged that one of Epstein’s alleged sex slaves, known only as Jane Doe 3, claimed that she was told to have intercourse with Prince Andrew during an orgy on Epstein’s island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.
A 2014 court filing alleges that she was ‘forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.’ She claims this happened ‘in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell’s apartment), in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls).’
The newly unsealed docs claim Epstein told Jane Doe 3 to ‘give the Prince whatever he demanded’. Jane Doe 3 claims that Ghislaine Maxwell ‘facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a ‘madame’ for Epstein’.’
Jane Doe 3 is not named in the documents. Virginia Giuffre claims she had sex three times with Andrew in around 2001 when she was 17 and 18. The age of consent in the US Virgin Islands is 18, for example, but is lower in the UK where it is 16. The age of consent in Florida is 18 and is 17 in New York.
The legal documents do not say when the orgy allegedly involving Prince Andrew took place.
Virginia Giuffre gave written evidence in 2015 to a Florida court and said: ‘The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
‘I was around 18 at the time. Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English’.
She added that Epstein, who killed himself in prison while awaiting trial on further child abuse charges in August 2019, had “laughed about the fact they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls to get along with’
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The names of more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein were made public following a US judge’s order last month.
In 900-plus pages of documents released last night, Prince Andrew is mentioned 69 times.
The first tranche of documents was released on Wednesday evening with high-profile figures such as the Duke of York and former US President Bill Clinton featuring heavily. There are also mentions of Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield, Alan Dershowitz and many more.
Mr Dershowitz has said that he wants all the documents released because it will prove that he ‘did nothing wrong’. Others have also released denials, including Prince Andrew himself. Mr Copperfield has also denied wrongdoing and said he regrets his association with Epstein.
Following the release of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein by a New York court, Virginia Giuffre, one of the paedophile financier’s victims, posted to X, noting one site where the files were being released had crashed.
She wrote: ‘We broke the website’.
Court documents show that Ms Giuffre said during a 2016 deposition that she had been told by Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with several men, including Andrew.
After asking Ms Giuffre in turn about each of the men, Laura Menninger, a lawyer who was part of Maxwell’s legal team at the time, asked: ‘Other than Glenn Dubin, (redacted), Prince Andrew, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince, the large hotel chain owner and Marvin Minsky, is there anyone else that Ghislaine Maxwell directed you to go have sex with?’
Ms Giuffre replied: ‘I am definitely sure there is. But can I remember everybody’s name? No.’
The unsealed documents include the transcript of Virginia being questioned over the whereabouts of the photograph showing her with the Duke of York.
Asked during her deposition in 2016 where the picture was, she said: ‘I probably still have it. It’s not in my possession right now.’
Ms Giuffre added it may have been in storage boxes at her mother and father-in-law’s in Sydney, Australia.
She also said documents related to the case may have also been in the storage boxes which were ‘full of Nerf guns, my kids’ toys, photos.’
During the deposition, Ms Giuffre said she had given the picture to the FBI in 2011 but had last seen it before she packed up her home to emigrate to Australia from Colorado.
The deposition of a woman named Johanna Sjoberg was also published as part of the documents.
She previously claimed Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001 while giving testimony in May 2016.
The incident is alleged to have taken place when Ms Giuffre and Ms Sjoberg, were at Epstein’s house off Fifth Avenue in New York.
