In 2009, Virginia Giuffre, a former masseuse at Epstein and Maxwell’s mansion, alleged that she had been groomed by Jeffrey Epstein, the now deceased (he committed suicide in 2019) sex offender, and his then-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell (who is currently 2 years into a 20-year prison sentence for grooming and trafficking underage girls). She claims the pair abused her in the early noughties when she was just a teenager (aged 17), and paid her to have sex with powerful men including the Queen’s son, Prince Andrew, whom reports indicate Giuffre was paid £12,000 to sleep with (pictured below).
A pyramid scheme of abuse within which ‘dozens’ of underage girls were abused, Giuffre and Maxwell would ‘reward vulnerable girls who brought someone new with extra cash.’
Giuffre’s lawyers alleged that the Prince sexually assaulted her three times, once in London, again in New York, and a third time on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Andrew has denied all allegations against him over the years, most notably in a BBC Newsnight interview which aired in 2019, in which he laid out his defense, claiming that he did not even remember meeting Giuffre.
‘Giuffre must be suffering from false memories’*, was one excuse used to dismiss Giuffre’s claims…
*Says the man who has consistently denied having even so much as met Giufree, counter to photographic evidence of the pair together which the photographer himself has weighed in to confirm isn’t fake…
‘The stamp on the back reads ‘000 #15 13Mar01’, the year the assault was alleged to have taken place.’
The interview was so ridiculous that it has been made into a newly released (05/04/24) Netflix drama, ‘Scoop’, with Rufus Sewell playing Andrew (the nonce), and Gillian Anderson playing Emily Maitlis (the interviewer).
Andrew’s proposed ‘get out of jail free cards’/his comments of:
- Not being able to sweat
- ‘It couldn’t possibly have been me because I remember precisely where I was 23 years ago, at a Pizza Express in Woking!’
were so ridiculous they’d be funny if there wasn’t a woman, (several dozen women), whose life/lives had been destroyed on the other side of it all…
Like the Amy Winehouse movie, Back to Black, which is also out this week (12/04), when it comes to stories/films that are based on real-life events, we must remember that there are people whose lives have been changed forever based on the very ‘story’ which is being told…
Not just a Netflix dramatisation to them, but their reality.
Giuffre’s reality.
2021 saw Giuffre beginning civil proceedings against Andrew under ‘New York’s Child Victims Act’, a 2019 law allowing victims of childhood sexual assault to pursue compensation for abuse that happened too long ago for criminal charges to be brought.
Despite Andrew’s lawyers trying to get the civil case thrown out several times, it was to no avail…
In 2022, to avoid the case going to court, a settlement was reached for which, although the exact fee was never released, is estimated to have been around £12 million…
‘How to say you’re guilty without saying you’re guilty 101.’
Andrew continued to visit Epstein, with him even staying in Epstein’s home just 18 months after he had completed a prison sentence for ‘soliciting a minor for prostitution.’
Yet, despite Andrew’s pedophilic connections, because of his status, he was STILL given a platform to deliver the spiel he delivered in the form of ‘that’ interview*.
*(^Albeit, not that the interview did anything to help his cause. What Andrew thought would be, in effect, ‘pouring water over the fire’ to put out and quell the controversy was, in fact, ‘pouring petrol onto the fire’, making it all blow up)…
But, despite the disastrous interview in which Andrew dug himself into a hole, massively, because of his wealth, Andrew was able to reach a settlement fee to stop the case from going to court.
Because he’s a powerful man, like all powerful men, Andrew was able to get away with it.
‘Power corrupts.’
& evidently, as is proven (again), that it does…
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