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02nd Dec 2019

Virginia Giuffre interview on Prince Andrew sex trafficking allegations airs tonight

Jade Hayden

“He knows what happened.”

Virginia Giuffre has asked the British public to “stand up beside” her and “not accept what has happened.”

Giuffre, who alleges she was trafficked by convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein, refutes the prince’s claim that he did not have sex with her when she was 17-years-old.

Prince Andrew has denied “any form of sexual contact or relationship” with Giuffre.

In an interview with BBC’s Panorama to be televised tonight, Giuffre says that she recalled the Duke of York “sweating all over me” when she allegedly met him in London nightclub Tramp in 2001.

“His sweat was like, it was raining basically everywhere,” she says.

“I was just grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell) would have expected from me.”

This comes after the prince’s claim that he could not have sweated during the alleged incident as he lost the ability to do so after the Falkland’s War.

Giuffre said that Epstein’s girlfriend told her what “to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.”

She claims that she later had sex with Prince Andrew in Maxwell’s Belgravia residence.

“He knows what happened. I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth, and I know that’s me,” she says.

Giuffre adds that claims that a photograph of herself and the prince is edited is “BS.”

“The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses,” she says.

“His arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, come on. I’m calling BS on this, because that’s what it is.”

Giuffre’s interview was recorded before Prince Andrew’s “car crash” interview on Newsnight last month.

Panorama: The Prince and the Epstein Scandal airs at 9pm tonight on BBC One.