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Convicted youngster intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has mentioned a decades-old {photograph} of Prince Andrew along with his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is “faux,” in a collection of interviews from jail.
The disgraced British socialite is at the moment serving a 20-year sentence in US federal jail for finishing up a years-long scheme together with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage women.
Talking from a Florida jail to UK broadcaster TalkTV, which aired a particular program on Monday evening, the 61-year-old – who additionally seems within the {photograph} – mentioned she doesn’t “imagine it occurred.”
“I don’t imagine it’s actual for a second, actually, I’m certain it’s not. There has by no means been an unique. I don’t imagine it occurred and positively, the way in which it’s described would have been not possible. I don’t have any reminiscence of going to Tramp [nightclub],” Maxwell mentioned.
Prince Andrew, who’s considered one of King Charles III’s youthful brothers, has strenuously denied Giuffre’s allegation that he was launched to her at London’s Tramp nightclub in 2001 with Maxwell, earlier than then-17-year-old Giuffre was allegedly compelled to carry out intercourse acts with the British royal.
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit in a US court docket in 2021 towards Andrew, who’s also referred to as the Duke of York, alleging sexual abuses whereas she was a minor on a number of events. Andrew later settled out of court docket for an undisclosed determine with out admitting any wrongdoing and the case was dismissed. Nonetheless, the allegations towards the senior royal severely tarnished his popularity. He stepped again from royal duties in late 2019 and was stripped of his army titles and royal patronages final 12 months.
Maxwell appeared to indicate little regret to Epstein’s victims and supplied no apology within the interviews broadcast Monday. As a substitute, she mentioned the victims ought to “take their disappointment and upset out on the authorities who allowed” the billionaire pedophile to die in jail.
Maxwell additionally instructed TalkTV that she believes Epstein was murdered – a conspiracy concept for which she supplied no proof. Authorities dominated Epstein died by suicide in 2019 whereas he was awaiting trial on federal costs accusing him of sexually abusing underage women.
Concerning the victims, Maxwell mentioned, “I hope they’ve some closure by way of the judicial course of that happened.”
Maxwell acknowledged throughout her sentencing listening to final 12 months that she had been convicted within the intercourse trafficking scheme however stopped wanting taking duty. She didn’t testify in her protection throughout the trial in late 2021, which ended together with her conviction on 5 counts, together with intercourse trafficking of a minor.