Ghislaine Maxwell calls Prince Andrew photo with underage girl a ‘fake’ — again – National | 24CA News
In a video interview from jail, Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that an notorious 2001 {photograph} exhibiting Prince Andrew along with his arm wrapped round a then-17-year-old Virginia Giuffre is pretend. The picture has been essential in legitimizing Giuffre’s sexual abuse allegations towards the now-disgraced royal.
“I don’t believe it’s real for a second,” Maxwell advised TalkTV from a Florida penitentiary the place she is serving 20 years for serving to procure teenage ladies for the late Jeffrey Epstein. “It’s a fake.… There’s never been an original and further there is no photograph. I’ve only ever seen a photocopy of it.”
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Maxwell’s feedback come amid stories within the U.Ok. that Prince Andrew is trying into authorized choices to overturn his sexual assault settlement with Giuffre. Global News couldn’t independently confirm these claims.
A photograph exhibiting Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre collectively that was included in U.S. courtroom paperwork.
U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Prince Andrew was by no means criminally charged for allegedly having intercourse with Giuffre when she was underage, and vehemently denies that they ever met or something sexual went on between them. Last yr, he settled a sexual assault lawsuit launched towards him by Giuffre in U.S. courtroom and reportedly paid out over US$16 million.
Amid the lawsuit, Prince Andrew was stripped of his royal patronages and army titles.
In a controversial interview with the BBC in 2019, Prince Andrew questioned the authenticity of the bombshell picture exhibiting not solely him and Giuffre collectively, but additionally Maxwell within the background.
“I don’t believe that photograph was taken in the way that has been suggested,” he mentioned on the time. “It’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph…. Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored.”
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Whether or not Prince Andrew would achieve success in a possible movement to overturn his multi-million-dollar settlement with Giuffre is doubtful.
Lisa Bloom, an L.A.-based lawyer who represents a few of Epstein’s victims, wrote in a Twitter risk that “Andrew was represented by experienced, top flight (not to mention expensive) lawyers… Judges will not allow parties ably represented by counsel to welch on deals.”
“Andrew himself is a grown man, 61, of sound mind and fully capable of managing his legal affairs. Judges will not allow competent adults to simply tear up settlement agreements.”
Maxwell acknowledged that Giuffre “travelled with” Epstein, a intercourse offender who was on trial for operating a pedophile ring for the wealthy and well-known earlier than he died in 2019.
“I know that Virginia travelled with Jeffrey, and so it’s entirely possible,” Maxwell mentioned of the Prince Andrew {photograph}. “It wasn’t one thing so outrageously out of left discipline that it couldn’t have occurred.
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“But the photo doesn’t appear to be real. And I don’t recall it being taken. I have no memory of Virginia and Prince Andrew meeting.”
This isn’t the primary time Maxwell has referenced the picture; in an October 2022 interview for a Paramount+ particular, she solid doubt on the veracity of the image.
“I don’t recognize that picture, and I don’t believe it is a real picture,” Maxwell mentioned on the time. “There is no original… and there are that many other things besides that, I cannot hardly get into.”
In this newest jail interview, Maxwell advised that she might be of help in Ukraine.
“Prison is truly one of the most barbaric and terrible experiences any person can undergo. Literally, the only thing that drives me and keeps me sane is the belief I still have something to give,” Maxwell mentioned.
“If the war in Ukraine is still going on, I could use my EMT emergency medical technician and paramedic skills and maybe I could go out and help there.”
She additionally added that she regretted assembly Epstein.
“I wouldn’t say every man that I fell in love with was a mistake. Some of them have been just wonderful and remain very good friends. The one that I obviously regret the most was Epstein.”
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