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Last night, friends of Virginia Roberts mocked a bizarre “trick” that is said to prove Prince Andrew’s “innocence” of alleged sexual crimes against her.
A photograph on the front page of the Daily Telegraph showed a man and a woman lying fully clothed in a bathroom in the former London home of convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, wearing makeshift masks bearing the faces of the Prince and his accuser.
It was published under the headline: ‘The photo ‘cleaning Duke’ over bathroom sex’ and was said to disprove Ms Roberts’ story that the Prince had engaged in intimate acts with her in his confined space. Ghislaine’s brother, Ian, told the newspaper that the image, posed by two of his sister’s acquaintances, ‘shows[s] conclusively that the bathroom is too small for any kind of sexual diversion.’
Ms Roberts claimed that in 2001, the Duke licked her toes in the bathroom before having sex in the bedroom, when she was 17 years old.
A photo on the front page of the Daily Telegraph showed a man and woman lying fully clothed in a bathroom in the former London home of convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, wearing makeshift masks bearing the faces of the Prince and his accuser.
She alleged that she was coerced into having sex with Andrew by convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 awaiting trial for child sex trafficking offences, and his close friend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The Duke has repeatedly and vehemently denied Ms Roberts’ claims.
A source connected to Ms Roberts, who now uses her married name Giuffre, told The Mail on Sunday night: “If this embarrassing stunt is the best Maxwell’s side can do in defense of Prince Andrew, then it is ridiculous”.
“This is a disgusting attempt to discredit a victim of sexual abuse and it would be laughable if it weren’t so offensive.” Also, they have their facts totally wrong. Virginia never said they had sex in the bathroom. Attorney Lisa Bloom, who has represented several victims of the Epstein and Maxwell sex trafficking ring, added: “What a surreal and bizarre photograph. It doesn’t prove anything.
Virginia Roberts (right) claimed that in 2001, Prince Andrew (left) licked his toes in the bathroom before having sex in the bedroom, when she was 17.
Virginia said that she and Andrew were in the bathroom. The photo shows that two full size humans can fit in the bathroom. Virginia said Andrew started playing with her feet in the bathroom. The photo shows that it would certainly be possible.
Virginia said that she and Andrew later moved into the room where the sexual activity occurred. Nothing in the photo disproves it.
Ghislaine and her followers must be desperate. Instead of continuing to attack the victims, he should apologize for the pain he has caused so many.”
And attorney Spencer Kuvin, who also represented the victims of Maxwell and Epstein, said: “It’s absurd. If you want to know how two people can have sex in a bathtub, you just have to google it on the internet. This half-hearted attempt [to discredit Virginia] it’s laughable.
In a 2011 interview, Ms Roberts claimed that she and the duke went into the bathroom where “he started licking my toes” before moving into the bedroom, a story she repeated in a 2019 interview with Panorama. from the BBC, saying: “There was a bathroom and it started there and then led into the bedroom.
In a 2011 interview, Ms Roberts claimed that she and the duke went into the bathroom where “he started licking my toes” before moving into the bedroom, a story she repeated in a 2019 interview with Panorama. from the BBC.
In his previously unpublished memoir, The Billionaire’s Playboy Club, which he admitted was partly fictional, he wrote of going into the bathroom: “We kissed and touched before we plunged into the hot water…he adored my young body, particularly my feet, stroking my toes and licking my arches.’
After drying off, they moved into a nearby room “for the longest ten minutes of my life.”
An old friend of Mrs. Roberts said: “The judge never accepted the memoirs into evidence because Virginia never presented it as a factual account of her experiences.” Part of it is fictional.
But that’s beside the point. This is an attempt to shame the victim at its worst. How arrogant do you have to be to think that a photograph like this will help your case in any way?
Last night, Ms Roberts’ lawyers declined to comment, but a source close to her said: “This feels like a coordinated attempt to try and discredit her, but the truth is the truth.” Virginia has always told the truth about Prince Andrew and no amount of stunted photography will change that.”
Meanwhile, a smiling Prince Andrew, 62, was photographed driving a Range Rover in the grounds of Windsor Castle yesterday and appeared nonchalant as he later toured the castle grounds on horseback.
Last week, it emerged that he has been telling friends that a “mystery development” will restore his disgraced reputation in the coming months, and that he intends to challenge the multi-million dollar settlement he struck with Ms Roberts last year. .