The disgraced former Prince Andrew and alleged victim Virginia Giuffre had ‘consensual sex’, a new email has claimed.
An email between Jeffrey Epstein and a journalist showed the paedophile didn’t deny that Andrew and Virginia Giuffre had ‘consensual’ sex.
While emailing New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr, Epstein appeared not to correct the journalist when he said Andrew had ‘consensual sex’ with VR – Virginia Roberts (maiden name).
Thomas said: ”I think the big issue is separating yourself from Andrew. I mean, in the end, he had consensual sex with VR. And VR worked for you.
‘The rest is atmospherics. You have moved on! People don’t know that and can’t accept that unless you say as much.’
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The emails were sent weeks after Giuffre filed a claim in court saying she was trafficked to Andrew for sex at least three times in 2001.
Andrew has continuously denied any wrongdoing, but settled out of court with Giuffre, paying her an ‘undisclosed sum’.
Metro has contacted Andrew’s representatives for comment.
Last year, an unseen interview with BBC Panorama revealed how Giuffre was allegedly first introduced to Andrew.
In the 2019 BBC Panorama interview clip, aired for the first time just months after her death, Giuffre told how she first met Andrew.
She said: ‘Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey, and that made me sick.
‘I just didn’t expect it from royalty. I didn’t expect from someone who people look up to and admire in the royal family.’
Giuffre says cryptically that ‘he knows what happened, I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth.’
Giuffre accused Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, of being ‘more physically abusive in some aspects than Jeffrey Epstein even was.’
She said: ‘She almost took pleasure in the fact, knowing that you were highly uncomfortable and that you were feeling sick to your stomach and that you were going through pain.’
Before her death, Giuffre was a vocal accuser of the former Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew before he was stripped of his titles, has been at the centre of Giuffre’s allegations.
She has claimed that the then-Duke of York had sex with her when she was 17 years old on Epstein’s island.
Giuffre added flames to the fire with her posthumous memoir in which included details of an orgy allegedly involving Andrew Windsor and eight other girls.
Andrew relinquished his royal titles after the Epstein scandal over his links with the late disgraced financier escalated.
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