Virginia Giuffre claimed Epstein ‘paid her $15,000 to have sex with Andrew’
Virginia Giuffre told a judge Jeffrey Epstein paid her $15,000 (£12,000) to have sex with Prince Andrew, it has been revealed.
The last batch of Epstein court papers to be released detail evidence given by Ms Giuffre as part of a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s former lover Ghislaine Maxwell.
While being questioned under oath in 2016 over whether she was paid ‘by or on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein’ for the encounter, which Andrew denies took place, she said: ‘Yes, I did receive $15,000.
‘I don’t know what equivalent that is to pounds. I received it in American dollars.’
‘And you didn’t pay taxes on that?’ she was asked. ‘No,’ she replied.
Ms Giuffre, now 40, claims Andrew sexually assaulted her on three occasions: in Maxwell’s London home, New York and Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
Which occasion she was referring to during her court deposition was not apparent from the documents.
A barrage of damaging allegations against Andrew and other high-profile figures have sprung from the unsealing of filings related to Ms Giuffre’s lawsuit against Maxwell, which was launched in 2015 and settled two years later.
The fifth and final batch, numbering 1,400 pages of records, was released on Tuesday following orders by a US judge.
The papers also reveal how Ms Giuffre claimed to have been trafficked to the south of France to have sex with another individual who was a ‘prince’.
Under questioning, she said did not know his name, but added: ‘He did speak foreign tongue, he spoke English as well, but I’m not too sure where he was from…I was introduced to him as a prince.’
Ms Giuffre went on to claim that ‘acquaintances’ of Epstein including former US president Bill Clinton must have known about child sex abuse taking place.
Visitors to Epstein’s homes would have noticed ‘nude pictures everywhere’ including ‘young girls doing things to each other that would be considered child pornography’, she told lawyers.
‘If you walked … into Jeffrey Epstein’s house and you went in there and you continued to be an acquaintance of his then you would have to know what was going on there,’ she added.
Asked if this made Clinton a witness to sexual abuse, Giuffre replied: ‘Yes, he would be a witness because he knew what my purpose there was for Jeffrey and he visited Jeffrey’s island.
‘There’s pictures of nude girls all around the house at all of his houses and it’s something that Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t shy about admitting to people.’
Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s homes, including his Caribbean island, committing any wrongdoing or having any knowledge of the late paedophile’s crimes.
His representatives acknowledged two brief meetings with Epstein in New York, one of which was in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, but said ‘a staff member and his security detail’ were present both times.
Andrew paid an estimated £12 million to settle a separate civil case with Ms Giuffre in 2022.
He has strenuously denied any wrongdoing or having any recollection of ever meeting Ms Giuffre.
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