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Post by Admin on Jan 6, 2015 22:45:13 GMT
Last week it was sensationally claimed that Prince Andrew had taken part in what, it was implied, was sex with a girl who was under the age of consent according to the law in Florida. As the papers lodged in the Palm Beach court spell out: ‘Epstein forced Jane Doe 3 to have sexual relations with a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (aka Duke of York). ‘Epstein instructed Jane Doe 3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe 3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse. Maxwell facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a “madame” for Epstein.’ In response, Buckingham Palace issued a strongly worded denial. But Miss Roberts’s account differs. She says she first encountered Epstein and later Prince Andrew through Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell. Miss Roberts says she had no idea of the risks she was running when she leapt at an invitation from Ghislaine to work for Epstein. ‘I was wearing my sexy white Mar-A- Lago uniform – a white miniskirt and a skintight white polo top – and studying an anatomy book when I was approached by this striking woman in her mid-40s with a very proper British accent – Ghislaine,’ Miss Roberts told The Mail on Sunday. ‘She noticed what I was reading and I told her I wanted to become a masseuse and she said she worked for a very wealthy gentleman called Jeffrey Epstein who was looking for a travelling masseuse and I’d get training and be paid large amounts of money.’ Miss Roberts was told she could start work immediately and was driven to Epstein’s sugar-pink mansion on the Palm Beach waterfront. The stairway was decorated with photos of naked young girls and Miss Roberts eventually would learn that she, too, was being photographed by hidden cameras. It was in 2001 that Miss Roberts was told she would be flying to London – and after they landed they drove straight to Ghislaine’s house. ‘Ghislaine showed me upstairs to a small bedroom. That night I gave Jeffrey an erotic massage. I was jetlagged. I went to sleep. ‘The next morning, Ghislaine came into my room. She was chirpy and really giddy. She jumped on the bed and said, “Get up, get up, sleepyhead. You’ve got a big day. We’ve gotta go shopping. You need a dress because you’re going to dance with a prince tonight.” She said I needed to be “smiley” and bubbly and very happy to be around him and give a lot of energy to him because he was the Queen’s son. Miss Roberts said they went shopping for a £5,000 Burberry bag and other designer dresses, perfume and makeup. ‘We got back to Ghislaine’s house around 4pm and I ran straight upstairs to have a shower,’ she said. ‘When I went downstairs, Ghislaine and Jeffrey were in the lounge. No one seemed too fussed even though we were expecting the Duke of York any minute. There was a knock at the door. There was a car outside with two men, who I think were security. Ghislaine led Andrew in and introduced me and we kissed each other on the cheek as I’d been told is the English custom. ‘Ghislaine served tea. She knew Fergie, who I gathered was the Prince’s ex-wife, and they talked very fondly about their daughters. Then Ghislaine played one of her favourite guessing games. She asked Andrew how old he thought I was and he guessed 17 and they all kind of laughed about it and Ghislaine made a joke that I was getting too old for Jeffrey. She said, “He’ll soon have to trade her in.”’ ‘In the morning, Ghislaine said, “You did well. He had fun.” We flew straight back to the States. I suspected that the only reason we went to London was that I was a “gift” to Andrew.’ Miss Roberts makes the extraordinary claim that she was paid about $15,000 (just under £10,000) by the 58-year-old Epstein as a reward for sleeping with the Prince and other sexual services for Epstein. There is no suggestion that the Prince knew that Epstein paid her. ‘I was totally under Jeffrey’s spell. I was his personal sex slave. Ghislaine joked about how young I was when they introduced me to Andrew.’ Despite the Palace’s vehement denials of impropriety, Miss Roberts says: ‘It was made clear to me that my job was to do whatever pleased him’ – adding that she ‘wouldn’t have dared object’ to any demand.
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2015 22:55:25 GMT
Were it not for the trashy outfit, the fresh-faced blonde smiling out of the picture could easily be one of his daughters’ friends. Posing together on holiday, perhaps, or at some Hunt ball. He the dashing 40-year-old Prince, she a bashful 17-year-old, flushed from the dance floor and eager for a memento of their meeting. Sadly, it’s nothing of the sort. At the time the snap was taken in 2001, Prince Andrew’s two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, would have been aged around 13 and 11. Too young still for anything much wilder than the odd sleepover. By contrast, Andrew’s young companion, Virginia Roberts, was in London for work. She had been just two years older than Beatrice - 15 - when she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of crooked Press tycoon Robert Maxwell, as an ‘erotic masseuse’ for American financier Jeffrey Epstein. That’s Epstein, a close friend of the Prince, a man invited to visit Sandringham, Balmoral and Windsor Castle as a guest of the Queen. Epstein, the man who liked to flash his cash, and who helped bail out Fergie when she was on the verge of bankruptcy. Oh, and Epstein, the registered sex offender imprisoned for 18 months for soliciting prostitution from a minor. As the whole sorry saga unfolds, I feel desperately sorry for those girls. Not just Virginia, of course, whose account, if true, is the kind of tale that fills a mother’s heart with horror. After all, what kind of tragedy must have befallen this beautiful young girl for her to run away from home and find working as a ‘sex slave’ for some sordid old millionaire and his weirdo controlling ex-girlfriend preferable to her former life? But also for Beatrice and Eugenie. How must it feel for Andrew’s daughters to know that their father not only associated with such a man, but enthusiastically supported him, even visiting him in New York shortly after his release from prison? Loyalty towards a friend in difficulty is laudable, but for a man in Andrew’s position of privilege and influence to so publicly endorse a convicted paedophile is a shocking misjudgment. It smacks of pure Establishment arrogance, of the kind of person who believes that money and status justify all and any sorts of behaviour. There was a time, of course, when they did. But those days are long gone. Now, not even the Queen’s favourite son can escape scrutiny.But however painful the gaze of the world’s media may be, he wouldn’t be human if he didn’t fear the scandal might diminish him in his daughters’ eyes. Father/daughter relationships are complex yet crucial. After all, a father is the first real male role model a little girl has.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2015 22:24:19 GMT
The ‘sex slave’ who claims she was forced to sleep with Prince Andrew was promised she would ‘be looked after’ if she kept quiet, bombshell court documents allege. Virginia Roberts said she was contacted by lawyers acting for billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein just a week after she was interviewed by the FBI about allegations of sex abuse at his Florida mansion. Epstein’s legal team ‘tracked her down’ to Australia, leaving her ‘terrified’, before apparently trying to secure her silence, according to a transcript of a telephone interview she had with lawyers in 2011. Miss Roberts said she was warned any of the victims who did not comply would be smeared as ‘drug addicts and prostitutes’. Miss Roberts, who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times between 2001 and 2002, also expressed her disgust at a photograph which showed the royal and Epstein walking together in Central Park after the disgraced tycoon had served just 13 months in jail. ‘I am angry about how they are still up to their old ways together and that they’re still hanging out,’ she said, adding that the Duke of York ‘would know a lot of the truth’. Describing the conversation with Epstein’s lawyers, she said: ‘He told me in the first five minutes that, you know, if I stay quiet, that “I’ll be looked after”. ‘And that was the exact way it was said. It wasn’t like you know, “I’m gonna pay you a zillion dollars or anything if you be quiet”, but if I stay quiet, I would [be] “looked after”.’ Miss Roberts, who is now 30 and has now returned to her native America, said she was then called again by the lawyers a week later and was put on to Epstein. The financier apparently showed no remorse, dismissing the girls he allegedly assaulted as ‘drug addicts’ who were ‘just after the drug money’. ‘He exactly repeated what the lawyer said the week before,’ Miss Roberts added.‘That he would look after me if I stayed quiet, and if I need any help, you know, his lawyers would represent me and he would get legal help for me, whatever I need, he would do.
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2015 22:47:07 GMT
This is the woman at the center of the Prince Andrew underage sex storm, as she tries to go about a normal life after creating a crisis for the British royal family. Virginia Roberts was pictured on a family outing to McDonald's near her home in a small town in Colorado, where she is living with her husband and three young children. The 30-year-old mother of three claims that she slept with the prince when she was 17 and a victim of his billionaire friend Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile. Since filing the allegations at a court in Florida, Roberts has been with her family in Colorado. She and Robert Giuffre, her husband of 13 years with whom she has three children, have rented a house in the countryside on the outskirts of a small town close to Colorado Springs. They have maintained a low profile and her mother Lynn and stepfather Stan Miller live nearby. None have commented. Neighbors were unaware of the family's presence in the Rocky Mountain town. One said: 'I heard about it on the news. And then I saw the girl - Miss Roberts - who lives down the track, I couldn't believe it.' Roberts is now involved in an increasingly complex legal case - and has been branded a liar by one of America's most renowned lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, who she also alleges had sex with her while she was underage. The extraordinary allegations made by Roberts are part of a US civil case against Epstein, who served 13 months in jail in 2008 for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Roberts claims Prince Andrew had sex with her when she was 17 - a minor under US law - and was employed as a 'sex slave' by Epstein. They were introduced, she claims, through Ghislaine Maxwell.Epstein's friend. The fifth in line to the throne slept with Miss Roberts at an orgy with other under-age girls on Epstein's private Caribbean island, as well as in a private house in London and in Epstein's New York mansion, according to the court papers. The claims are denied by Prince Andrew.
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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2015 22:37:19 GMT
Prince Andrew's former wife Sarah Ferguson has said she cannot just stand by when "shockingly accusatory allegations" that he had sex with an underage teenager are being made. Speaking on US TV, Ms Ferguson referred to Buckingham Palace's statement that the claims were "categorically untrue". The prince was a "great father and humongously good man", she added. It was the second time she had come to his defence since allegations in a US court case became public this month. Ms Ferguson was asked about the claims when she appeared on NBC's morning television show Today to promote a weight-loss product. "The great news is that Andrew and I and the girls are the best family unit there ever is and I know him extremely, extremely well," she said. "And Buckingham Palace put out a denial two weeks ago or a week ago and we stand by that denial. "Secondly and more importantly I won't stand by - because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you - and not support him so publicly because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations which I don't think is right. Its defamation of character and as a great father and a humongously good man and all the work he does for Britain I won't stand by and let him have his character defamed to this level."
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