Prince Andrew breaks the lid just hours before the broadcast of the Ghislaine Maxwell interview

By James On Jan 24, 2023

Prince Andrew was seen driving his Range Rover this morning, just hours before his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell covered up to speak from behind bars.

The 62-year-old Duke of York has kept a low profile since reaching a settlement reportedly worth £12 million with his accuser Virginia Roberts, 38, who claimed she was trafficked through pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In her interview with Talk TV, Ghislaine Maxwell, 61, who was convicted of procuring girls for Epstein, said she wishes she had never met the business mogul.

Maxwell also referred to the infamous photo of her, Virginia Roberts and Prince Andrew, allegedly taken at their London home in 2001, insisting the photo was doctored.

Prince Andrew, 62, was seen driving his Range Rover this morning, just hours before his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell covered up to speak from behind bars.

In her interview with Talk TV, Ghislaine Maxwell, 61, who was convicted of procuring girls for Jeffrey Epstein, said she wishes she had never met the business mogul.

SCHEDULE OF THE NOTORIOUS VIRGINIA GIUFFRE AND THE PHOTOGRAPH OF PRINCE ANDREW

March 200one – The photo of Virginia, Ghislaine and Prince Andrew was reportedly taken at Ghislaine’s London home.

May 2001 – Naomi Campbell hosted a boat party on the French Riviera with Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia, and Ghislaine Maxwell in attendance.

February 2011 – Virginia is approached by Mail On Sunday and produces the image.

He claimed the photograph was taken in March 2001, two months before the boat party in St Tropez.

She said that she had sex with Andrew three times as a teenager, which the duke denies.

The photographs are published by Mail On Sunday.

November 2019 – Prince Andrew tells BBC Newsnight: “You can’t prove whether that photograph is fake or not because it’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.”

December 2019 – Virginia told BBC Panorama that the photo is genuine and gave the original to the FBI in 2011.

December 2019 – Giuffre’s then-boyfriend, Tony Figueroa, tells BBC Panorama that he saw the photo in the year it was taken, 2001, and that Mrs Giuffre told him she had been forced to have sex with the prince.

February 2022 – Lady Victoria Hervey says Epstein’s victims have told her Virginia and Maria Farmer doctored the image.

February 2022 – Experts claim that the image is real and that it is unlikely to be fake.

January 2023 – Maxwell affirms that the image is false and that he has not seen an original, only photocopies.

Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison last year after being convicted of luring girls to massage parlors so Epstein could abuse them between 1994 and 2004.

In an interview for TalkTV’s Jeremy Kyle Live: Ghislaine Behind Bars, which aired Monday night, Maxwell also said he believes Epstein was murdered.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

His death was ruled a suicide.

Maxwell said: ‘I think he was murdered. I was shocked. So I wondered how it happened because, as far as I was concerned, he was going to… I was sure he was going to appeal. And he was sure that he was covered by the non-prosecution agreement.

But I was not in the prosecution. They didn’t mention me. I wasn’t even one of the co-conspirators.

‘Honestly, I wish I’d never met him.

‘Looking back now, I probably wish I had stayed in England. But putting that aside, you know, I tried to go off and start another new job and move on from late ’98, ’99.

‘So I wish I had been more successful moving on… Because I had been a banker and I should have moved on completely.’

Maxwell said he “didn’t know” that Epstein “was so awful”, though “obviously now, looking back in hindsight, of course”.

She added: ‘But at the time, I mean I had a lot of friends. He was friends with almost everyone you can imagine. There was no reason to imagine that he was someone of interest to people.

Maxwell also said that the well-known photograph showing the Duke of York with Virginia Giuffre is false.

Said to have been taken inside Maxwell’s Mayfair home, the photograph shows Andrew with his arm around Mrs Giuffre.

Maxwell said: ‘Well, it’s false. I don’t think it’s real. In fact, I’m sure it isn’t… There has never been an original. Also, there is no photography; I’ve only seen a photocopy of it.

‘I don’t think it happened, certainly in the way it’s described. It would have been impossible. I have no recollection of going to [nightclub] Homeless [where Ms Guiffre said Andrew danced with her].

The famous photo of the Duke of York, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell

‘Certainly not an outfit I would have worn.’

Ms Giuffre sued Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 after Epstein, a former associate of Maxwell, trafficked her.

Andrew has also questioned the validity of the image of him with Mrs Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts.

The Duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case involving Mrs Giuffre, a woman he claimed he had never met.

He previously said he “doesn’t remember” meeting Ms Giuffre and cast doubt on the image, claiming she is “not someone to hug” or “show affection” in public.

In an interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019, Andrew said that although he recognized himself in the photo with Ms Giuffre, he stated that it is not possible to prove whether the image has been faked.