Prince Andrewβs chief accuser was a prostitute who lied about her age and was paid βhalf a millionβ by disgraced businessman Jeffrey Epstein, new court papers allege, according to the Telegraph.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who is now an advocate for victims of sex trafficking, has claimed she had sex with the royal at least three times in 2001, when she was 17.
Giuffre claims this happened after she met with American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with procuring underage and young women for powerful clients, together with his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to the report, Sharon Churcher, the journalist who first revealed that Giuffre was among Epsteinβs victims, told New York publisher Tony Lyons that Giuffre lied about her age when she met Epstein.
βShe took a year off [her age]. Apparently she was 16, not 15, when she was recruited [by Epstein]. But sheβd been on the game for about a year then. Epsteinβs women were β he basically had prostitutes,βΒ the paper quoted Churcher as saying about Giuffre, citing a transcript of her conversation with Lyons.
https://www.rt.com/uk/508780-prince-andrew-accuser-documents/