The release of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has definitely revealed some dark stories of the crimes and misdeeds of dozens of people connected to the former financier. One of the high-profile characters that have been associated with the criminal duo is Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth’s third child.
Accusations against Prince Andrew are not new, so his appearance in the now infamous Epstein List, ordered by Judge Loretta Preska to be unsealed, wasn’t a surprise at all. However, the details included in the court documents shed more light on the relationship he allegedly had with Epstein and Maxwell, as well as the disgusting acts described.
The documents belong to the 2015 defamation case Virginia Giuffre issued against Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been mainly accused of serving as a ‘madame’ and trafficking for Epstein over two decades. Giuffre was one of the alleged victims of the net and was forced to have intimacy with several of Epstein’s associates, including Prince Andrew.
For years, Buckingham Palace and Prince Andrew have denied the accusations; he never claimed he didn’t know Giuffre at all, even when there’s a very casual photograph of them and Maxwell at what seems to be one of Epstein’s properties. Now, it seems there’s more proof against the Duke thanks to the unsealed documents.
Prince Andrew and the Rare Puppet
In the documents appear the testimonies of Johanna Sjoberg, another victim who gave a very disturbing testimony of one of her encounters with the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. According to her story, Andrew touched her breasts while sitting on a couch in Epstein’s Manhattan apartment back in 2001.
Sjoberg testified that one time Maxwell took her to a room in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion with Prince Andrew, and in a strange sense of humor, pulled out a puppet of the Duke of York that popularly belonged to the BBC show Spitting Image. The puppets representing the Royal Family went out for auction, all except one, Prince Andrew’s; now it’s known it was because Ghilaine Maxwell bought it for him.
“It looked like him. And she brought it down and presented it to him, and that was a great joke because apparently it was a production from a show on BBC. And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch,” reads Sjoberg’s testimony. She adds then that they put the puppet on Giuffre’s lap while Sjoberg was placed on Andrew’s lap. Andrew put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast while he did the same on Sjoberg’s.
The documents also reveal that other underage victims were forced to have intercourse with the Prince. One of them, named Jane Doe 3, was reportedly taken to the royal in three different locations, Maxwell’s apartment in London, Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, and his private island in Virgin Islands. In the last one, she was reportedly forced to be part of an underage orgy.
Regarding the accusations made by Virginia Giuffre, in 2022, they both reached a 12 million-dollar settlement in her favor, which was allegedly donated to organizations that work with victims of trafficking and abuse. To this day, Prince Andrew still denies all accusations, and it seems that after his mother’s death, he’s been welcomed once again by the Royal Family.
