Ghislaine Maxwell Denies Prince Andrew Had Sex With Virginia Giuffre In Her Bathtub
Ghislaine Maxwell denied finding under-age sexual partners for the Duke of York and cast doubts on accounts by the royal’s accuser, including a claim that sex took place in a bath, according to newly released court documents.
Accusing Virginia Giuffre of telling a “tissue of lies”, Maxwell said the bath at her home in Mayfair was too small for any sexual activity.
Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, repeatedly denied any memory of the circumstances around Giuffre’s claim that Andrew slept with her when she was 17 – still a minor under US law.
The socialite is awaiting trial in the US after being charged with procuring teenage girls for Epstein to abuse. She denies the charges.
Giuffre, who claims she was trafficked by Epstein, alleges the duke had sex with her on three separate occasions.
Andrew has categorically denied he has had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Giuffre.
In the deposition transcript, from a since-settled defamation case brought by Giuffre, also known as Virginia Roberts, Maxwell accused the now mother-of-three of lying.
In the document, which had redacted the duke’s name, Maxwell was asked if she had introduced Giuffre to the royal in London and replied: “I understand her story about […] but again, her tissue of lies is extremely hard to pick apart, what is true and what isn’t.
“Actually I wouldn’t recollect her at all but for her tissue stories about this situation.”
Asked again if the pair had met thanks to her, she replied she had “no recollection”. When quizzed if she had introduced Andrew to any “girls under the age of 18”, she said he had only met her friends and their children.
Maxwell’s deposition, from seven hours of interviews with Giuffre’s lawyers, has come to light after Manhattan US district judge Loretta A Preska on Thursday ordered the transcripts to be released, rejecting arguments from Maxwell’s lawyers that the defamation interviews...
