An email apparently sent by Ghislaine Maxwell appears to confirm that a photo of Britain’s former prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre is real.
The email features in the latest batch of documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the US Justice Department.
Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, had accused Andrew of sexual assault. The then-prince paid her a multi-million-pound settlement in 2022 without making any admission of guilt.
The former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after his brother King Charles III stripped him of his title, always denied that he ever met Giuffre, claiming that a photograph of him with his arm around her bare midriff was fake.
But another email — written by Epstein’s now imprisoned one-time girlfriend Maxwell — appears to authenticate it.
Apparently referring to Giuffre, whose name is redacted, she writes in a “draft statement” sent to Epstein in 2015 that in 2001 the then 17-year-old “met a number of friends of mine including Prince Andrew” in London.
“A photograph was taken as I imagine she wanted to show it to friends and family,” Maxwell adds.
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