Epstein victim claims pal was forced into sex with Prince Andrew: ‘Traumatic’

Prince Andrew’s friendship with convicted financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has at all times been the topic of intrigue and thriller.

A brand new A&E documentary titled “Secrets and techniques of Prince Andrew” has accomplished a deep dive into their allyship, together with allegations in opposition to the disgraced royal made by Epstein accusers, Lisa Phillips and Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

The Duke of York, 63, met the now-dead felon in 1999, having been launched by British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend on the time.

“[Andrew and Epstein] grew to become extraordinarily shut,” royal biographer Andrew Lownie claimed within the documentary. “You recognize, actual greatest buddies. There have been seven totally different numbers for Andrew in Epstein’s little black e book.”

Based on Lownie, Epstein allegedly “had essentially the most intimate particulars of Andrew’s life,” and claims that “Epstein mentioned, ‘There’s just one one that likes intercourse greater than me, and that’s Andrew.’ “

“There’s little doubt that they had been seeing one another nearly each month,” he claimed.

Lownie mentioned that Epstein and Maxwell had been typically welcomed into Andrew’s royal life.

“They stayed at Balmoral. They had been at Sandringham. They had been invited to private birthday events at Windsor. They met different members of the royal household,” Lownie mentioned. “Epstein and Ghislaine had been invited to the guts of the British monarchy.”

Dickie Arbiter, who served as a Buckingham Palace press secretary, claimed that “Andrew would’ve sought permission from the queen to ask him” to “non-public occasions.”

“The queen would imagine her youngsters,” he added, noting that “Andrew fell beneath his spell. [Epstein] may present unique holidays. He may present yachts, present ladies.”

The Put up has reached out to Buckingham Palace for remark.

‘Secrets and techniques on high-powered males’

Phillips, 45, revealed she met Epstein and Andrew when she was on a modeling shoot in 2000 on an isle within the West Indies not removed from Epstein’s notorious non-public island, Little St. James.

Phillips’ good friend, whose title has by no means been revealed, invited herself and different fashions to the residence. Phillips naively tagged alongside, not considering that something was out of the unusual since she heard Epstein “does wonderful issues for fashions” and was reportedly “a extremely nice man.”

“The island was like a fortress that little or no folks knew about so if any info acquired to the surface world, that may be very dangerous for Epstein,” she mentioned. 

Whereas she was there, she met the prince throughout dinner.

“The mannequin had mentioned to me, ‘Do you know that was Prince Andrew?’ ” Phillips shared. “I don’t assume I used to be alleged to even see him, however he walked up at that second to say goodbye.”

Phillips then famous that Epstein had persuaded her to remain on the island, as a result of he didn’t need her to inform folks that she noticed Andrew there.

“Figuring out that Jeffrey launched me to a prince, he didn’t need anyone figuring out about it,” she mentioned.

He urged her to relaxation and chill out on the beachy peninsula and mentioned that he would typically be “good” to her and act “” in her future.

“I used to be utterly groomed by this man and was doing the whole lot he wished. It was sexual abuse,” she mentioned.

“On the time, the ladies didn’t assume Epstein was a nasty man. They regarded as much as him and felt like he cared about them. However if you look again on it, he was abusive and we had been groomed and manipulated,” Phillips recalled. 

She then claimed that one night, her good friend got here to her sobbing and admitted that Epstein had allegedly instructed her to have intercourse with Andrew in a non-public room.

She said: “It was traumatic for her and after that, she was not the identical. Her life went utterly uncontrolled.” 

Phillips mentioned she requested Epstein why he allegedly inspired her unnamed good friend to have sexual activity with Andrew, and she or he remembered Epstein saying, “It’s good to have issues on folks.”

“He had a variety of secrets and techniques on high-powered males,” Phillips dished.

‘A highway map to tear him aside’

Giuffre, 40, additionally spoke about her experiences as an alleged sufferer of Andrew, claiming that she was trafficked by Epstein for the royal within the early 2000s. She was solely 17 on the time.

Andrew has beforehand denied all allegations made by Giuffre.

The infamous photograph of herself and Andrew hugging in 2001 was launched to the newspapers in 2011.

In his tragic 2019 “Newsnight” interview, Andrew claimed he had “completely no reminiscence” of that individual photograph being taken — and lots of of his associates adamantly believed the snapshot was a faux, in line with the documentary. Andrew additionally claimed through the sit-down that he and Epstein had been “not that shut.”

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on expenses of underage intercourse trafficking, with the case coming to a dramatic halt when he allegedly dedicated suicide in jail only a month later.

After his demise, Giuffre filed a intercourse abuse lawsuit in opposition to Andrew in 2021.

By early 2022, the case between Giuffre and Andrew was dismissed, and he was ordered to pay a settlement of an undisclosed sum to her.

Consequently, Queen Elizabeth stripped him of his army and royal titles, and he stepped down from public obligation.

Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley additionally appeared within the sequence and defined that her authorized crew despatched Andrew a number of letters and subpoenas concerning the lawsuit. Nevertheless, he ignored them and stored ducking the authorized couriers who had been attempting to serve him papers.

“He mentioned so many false issues within the interview and it was only a highway map to tear him aside,” McCawley mentioned of Emily Maitlis’ dialog with the prince on “Newsnight.”

“Andrew and his crew was throwing the whole lot however the kitchen sink to the decide in an effort to get [the] case dismissed,” Epstein victims’ lawyer Lisa Bloom added.

A ‘very mysterious Gatsby-like determine’

Vicky Ward, the Self-importance Honest journalist who wrote a bombshell exposé on Epstein in 2003, claimed that Epstein’s enchantment for Andrew was as a result of the disgraced royal favored to “consort with individuals who had numerous cash, like millionaires like Epstein and Ghislaine.”

“Epstein bought himself as this sensible genius,” Ward mentioned. “I used to be a journalist investigating Epstein and he was this very mysterious Gatsby-like determine who famously liked this extraordinary posh way of life.”

“Jeffrey Epstein was extremely expert at studying folks and at manipulating folks,” she mentioned. “Prince Andrew was not the one particular person to be fooled by Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a superb, manipulative, misleading con artist.”

Maxwell, 61, who’s at the moment serving her personal jail sentence for being Epstein’s confederate in sexual abuse crimes, was additionally associates with Andrew since they “each knew highly effective folks.”

“Prince Andrew has at all times been obsessive about cash and that is the world that he thinks he belongs in,” Ward added, noting that Epstein launched Andrew to highly effective figures like former President Invoice Clinton.

“Maybe what Epstein gave Andrew was the courtiers that he didn’t actually have in actual life,” mentioned Ward.

The documentary “Secrets and techniques of Prince Andrew” premieres Monday, Aug. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on A&E.