Virginia Giuffre: Prince Andrew accuser and alleged Jeffery Epstein victim shops in Perth
Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre has been photographed in a rare public outing at a Perth shopping centre.
The 39-year-old, who received an out-of-court settlement reported to be worth $20 million from the Duke of York last year, was spotted shopping with her service dog this week.
The alleged Jeffery Epstein victim, who is soon to release a tell-all memoir, enjoyed a milkshake and visited H&M during the outing.
It comes the day after leading US lawyer Alan Derschowitz advised Prince Andrew to challenge the settlement amount he gave Ms Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre, from Sacramento, California, moved to Australia after meeting Robert Giuffre in 2002, who she later married.
She accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was a minor under US law but Andrew has consistently denied the allegations.
Ms Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 after she was trafficked by convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew, 62, denied the accusation but paid a reported $20 million out-of-court settlement to get Ms Giuffre to drop the civil claim in the US.
Legal sources close to the Prince said he would launch a $300 million lawsuit against her if she repeated the accusation in an upcoming memoir.
He has hired Los Angeles lawyers Andrew Brettler and Blair Berk to get her to retract her claims, and possibly secure an apology.
Meanwhile, friends of Ms Giuffre scorned a bizarre ‘stunt’ said to disprove her account of her encounter with the Duke of York.
A photograph on the front page of Saturday’s Daily Telegraph showed a man and a woman lying fully clothed in a bath in the former home of convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. They were wearing masks of the faces of Andrew and his accuser. It was published under the headline: “The photo that ‘clears Duke’ over bath sex.”
Maxwell’s brother Ian told the newspaper that the photograph, posed by two of his sister’s acquaintances, disproved Ms Roberts’ account of her sexual encounter with Andrew.
Mr Maxwell said the picture “shows conclusively that the bath is too small for any sort of sex frolicking”.
Ms Giuffre claimed that Andrew licked her toes in the bath before they had sex in the bedroom in 2001.
“If this shameful stunt is the best Maxwell’s side can do in defence of Prince Andrew then it’s laughable. It’s a disgusting attempt to discredit a victim of sexual abuse and would be risible if it were not so offensive.
“Plus they have their facts totally wrong. Virginia never said they had sex in the bath.”
Lisa Bloom, a lawyer who represented several victims of Epstein and Maxwell, said: “What a surreal, bizarre photograph. It proves nothing. Virginia said that she and Andrew were in the bath. The photo shows that two full-sized humans can fit in the bath.”
Ms Giuffre’s lawyers declined to comment.
Elsewhere, evidence has emerged that the infamous picture of Andrew with his arm around a teenage Ms Roberts is real.
The photograph was said to have been taken on March 10, 2001, the night Ms Roberts said Andrew first sexually abused her.
The Mail on Sunday said it could prove the picture was printed at a one-hour lab a two-minute drive from Ms Roberts’ former home in Florida on March 13, 2001, and that it would have been “virtually impossible” to fake.
Last week in a TV interview from prison, Maxwell said: “It is a fake. I don’t believe it’s real for a second.”
In 2019 Andrew said he had “no recollection” of the photo being taken.
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