Virginia Roberts informed a fellow Jeffrey Epstein ‘intercourse slave’ that she slept with Prince Andrew in London, it was claimed final night time.
The then 17-year-old can be mentioned to have proven the notorious image of her posing at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house with the Queen’s second son.
In a world unique interview with the Day by day Mail, Carolyn Andriano says Miss Roberts texted her from London in March 2001 to say she was going for dinner with Andrew, Maxwell and Epstein.
Miss Roberts is alleged to have proven the image to Mrs Andriano again in Florida, saying of the prince: ‘I received to sleep with him.’
Mrs Andriano, 35, gave harrowing testimony towards Maxwell at her trial final month. 4 of the 5 responsible verdicts towards her had been underpinned by the proof of the married mom of 5, together with essentially the most severe cost of intercourse trafficking a minor which carries a most 40-year jail time period.
In the present day Mrs Andriano bravely waives her authorized proper to anonymity to inform the complete story about her horrific ordeal in Epstein’s ‘Home of Sin’ in Palm Seashore, Florida – when she was aged 14 to 17 – and her then friendship with Miss Roberts, who she says, recruited her into Epstein and 60-year-old Maxwell’s sexual abuse ‘pyramid scheme’.
Virginia Roberts is alleged to have proven the notorious image of her posing at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house with the Queen’s second son, Carolyn Andriano claims
Her account of her conversations with Miss Roberts is the primary time there was any contemporaneous and unbiased report of the purported assembly with the Duke of York.
Mrs Andriano’s astonishing interview with the Day by day Mail – for which she isn’t being paid – comes within the week that Andrew’s attorneys made a determined courtroom bid to get Miss Roberts’ rape lawsuit towards him within the US thrown out.
His authorized bid is alleged to be hanging by a thread, with a choose anticipated to rule shortly. The duke strenuously denies any wrongdoing, and says he can’t bear in mind assembly his accuser. Sources near him have recommended that the image of him with Miss Roberts could also be faux.
Andrew’s attorneys are looking for to influence the courtroom that the 38-year-old – now based mostly in Australia and identified by her married identify Giuffre – had waived her proper to sue him when she signed an earlier £370,000 authorized settlement with US financier Epstein, who killed himself on remand in jail.
In her interview with the Mail, Mrs Andriona says she believes what Miss Roberts informed her in 2001 – ten years earlier than the teenager intercourse accuser first informed her story in a Sunday newspaper.
Mrs Andriona mentioned: ‘I requested her if she’d been to the palace. And he or she mentioned “I received to sleep with him”. I mentioned “What? You’re f****** with me” and she or he mentioned “no, I received to sleep with him”. She didn’t appear upset about it. She thought it was fairly cool.’
Mrs Andriano, 35, (pictured) gave harrowing testimony towards Maxwell at her trial final month
Mrs Andriona, who has been extensively praised for her brave testimony at Maxwell’s trial, added: ‘I waive my proper to anonymity. I’m doing this as a result of I would like all younger ladies to know what occurred to me once I was an adolescent and the way it has affected my life.
‘I need to be a voice for all survivors of sexual abuse in order that they aren’t afraid to come back ahead, even whether it is years after the occasion, and say what occurred to them. That is my story and I need to inform it.’
Earlier this week Maxwell’s attorneys demanded a retrial after one of many jurors who convicted her of trafficking confessed to being a intercourse abuse sufferer.
Prosecutors who put Maxwell behind bars requested the trial choose for an investigation into the admission by Scotty David throughout media interviews. However the British socialite’s attorneys went additional, saying it was ‘incontrovertible grounds for a brand new trial’.
Mr David is now more likely to be summoned again to the New York courtroom.
Prince Andrew declined to remark.
Virginia Giuffre informed me she’d slept with Prince Andrew simply days after that journey to London with Jeffrey Epstein: Key witness at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial bravely waives her anonymity and makes a sensational new declare
By Stephen Wright and Barbara McMahon for the Day by day Mail
Carolyn Andriano was resentfully cleansing her bed room, listening to music and squabbling together with her mom – being a typical 14-year-old, in reality – when the textual content got here by. It was from her good friend Virginia, hundreds of miles away in London.
‘You’ll by no means guess who I’m with…’ it learn. Carolyn knew this was going to be a juicy little bit of gossip and was fast to reply. ‘Who?’ she replied eagerly.
A textual content pinged again instantly.
‘She mentioned, “I’m in London with Jeffrey and Maxwell and Prince Andrew”,’ Carolyn remembers. ‘She mentioned they had been going to have dinner. I sort of didn’t consider her, however I had no purpose to not. I believed it was far-fetched however, then once more, she knew rich individuals and had been to fancy events and stuff like that.
‘I mentioned, “bulls**t”. I used to be calling her out on it, however she swore [it was true]. She mentioned she was going to see if she might get an image.’
In fact, the ‘Jeffrey and Maxwell’ the textual content referred to had been disgraced financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019, and his then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of kid trafficking and intercourse abuse fees in New York final month.
Carolyn and Virginia – then Roberts, now Giuffre – had been members of the wicked couple’s harem of weak teenagers and younger ladies, recruited by Maxwell to offer sexual favours for Epstein. Carolyn was a key prosecution witness at Maxwell’s trial.
Pictured: Carolyn aged 8
Then, she gave proof solely as Carolyn. However she has now bravely waived her authorized proper to anonymity to talk completely to the Mail.
Carolyn has obtained no payment for this text, saying: ‘I’m doing this as a result of I would like all younger ladies to know what occurred to me once I was an adolescent and the way it has affected my life. That is my story and I need to inform it.’
Again in 2001, for the 2 younger ladies, all of it felt like a harmful – and profitable – recreation. Per week after the textual content change, true to her phrase, 17-year-old Virginia got here again from the UK and picked up Carolyn from faculty, eager to inform all. ‘I mentioned, “so the place’s your image, Miss Princess?” ’ Carolyn mentioned. {A photograph} was duly produced.
The picture – Carolyn feels prefer it was on a cell phone, though digicam telephones weren’t universally accessible in 2001 and reminiscences fade, so it may need been a digital or disposable snap – is one most individuals will probably be conversant in.
It reveals Virginia grinning, with Prince Andrew at her facet, his hand round her waist, and Ghislaine trying on proudly within the background.
Carolyn was duly impressed. However there was extra. Far more.
Carolyn was stuffed with questions: ‘I requested her if she’d been to the Palace. And he or she mentioned, “I received to sleep with him”. I mentioned, “What? You’re f****** with me”, and she or he mentioned “no, I received to sleep with him”. She didn’t appear upset about it. She thought it was fairly cool.’
That is the primary time there was a contemporaneous and unbiased account of Virginia’s purported recollection of her assembly with the Duke of York that night time in March 2001, which he strenuously denies ever occurred. Andrew is presently ready to listen to whether or not a US choose will throw out Mrs Giuffre’s civil intercourse assault towards him.
‘Virginia simply couldn’t consider it. Maxwell had informed her she had a shock for her and I suppose the shock was Prince Andrew. She was excited. I suppose whenever you’re assembly someone that well-known, I might have been excited too.
‘She mentioned they’d dinner they usually had intercourse. She didn’t say something about what they ate or the place they had been – that’s not what we had been speaking about. It was simply that she couldn’t consider she received to sleep with Prince Andrew.
‘I stored saying, “are you severe?” And he or she mentioned “yeah”. I requested if she received paid to do it and she or he by no means gave me a solution.’
In the present day Carolyn is a life-worn, 35-year-old married mom of 5 youngsters aged between 5 and 17, nonetheless residing close to Palm Seashore, the place Epstein had a sprawling, £13 million mansion.
She has no difficulty with Andrew – she’s by no means met him – neither is she an enormous fan of Virginia. She hasn’t seen her former good friend in years, and it in all probability wouldn’t be a joyful reunion in the event that they did meet.
Carolyn holds Virginia accountable for delivering her into Epstein and Maxwell’s clutches within the first place. Giuffre has admitted that she actively recruited younger ladies for Epstein, one thing she says she bitterly regrets.
Plus, it ought to be famous, the jury in New York believed Carolyn’s testimony wholeheartedly. Maxwell was convicted unanimously on 5 of the six fees towards her. 4 of the responsible verdicts had been underpinned by allegations made by Carolyn. Essentially the most severe of them, of kid intercourse trafficking a minor, utilized to Carolyn alone, and carries a most 40-year jail time period.
A juror this week broke cowl to disclose how members had been cut up initially as they deliberated over among the fees, however none of them ever doubted Carolyn.
In the present day, Carolyn appears older than her 35 years. The clear brown eyes of the 16-year-old Carolyn – the age when she was an everyday customer to Epstein’s Palm Seashore mansion – are the identical, however smiles are a uncommon commodity these days.
A putting, 5ft 9ins, larger-than-life character, with a mane of dyed crimson curls, and a penchant for chunky jewelry, you sense the ‘powerful cookie’ exterior is a defend she’s worn for a really very long time.
There’s a transient thaw when she hears how the jury trusted her each phrase: ‘I’m glad they believed me, and that it was mistaken what Maxwell did to me. I had a voice and it was heard.
‘It’s so vital as a result of I’ve my very own daughters now. Each day I take into consideration whether or not there’s somebody who’s going to place them within the state of affairs I used to be in. I reside with worry for my ladies.’
It’s truthful to say Carolyn has had a tough life. Her struggling didn’t finish when she discovered herself – aged 18 and a single mom – not to Epstein’s tastes, and duly redundant. Within the intervening years, she’s labored as a stripper and escort, spent 52 days in jail for fraud, been hooked on medicine and drink, and suffered psychological well being points. She takes a cocktail of remedy simply to get by the day.
‘I used to be within the intercourse trade. It was straightforward. That was what I used to be taught, and I figured it was the simplest approach to get cash for the medicine. I felt nugatory. I felt like I used to be simply put right here on Earth for use and abused sexually. I checked out myself within the mirror one time and simply cried and cried,’ she says.
‘There’s no amount of cash on this world that can ever mend what was stolen – my innocence as a baby by Maxwell and Epstein who had been in cahoots for God is aware of what number of years. I’ve youngsters and I do know as a mom, and as a lady, there’s no means in Hell I might ever do one thing alongside the traces of what Maxwell has finished.’ Curiously, nonetheless, on the subject of what allegedly occurred between Virginia and Prince Andrew, she has little sympathy for her former good friend. ‘I don’t assume she [Virginia] deserves any compensation. I don’t assume she was coerced into doing something.’
Though she believed her good friend’s account on the time, Carolyn provides: ‘I don’t assume Virginia deserves something lower than what Maxwell is getting as a result of she trafficked me right into a world of spiralling downward slopes and it has taken my husband John 12 lengthy years to get me to like myself once more.’
A weak little one with a troubled previous and chaotic homelife, Carolyn was simply 13 when she met Virginia Roberts. She’d dropped out of faculty and moved to Florida from New York.
Her mom was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and she or he’d been abused by her grandmother’s accomplice when she was 4.
With a mom who just about ‘let her do what she needed’, Carolyn began courting a 17-year-old referred to as Shawn – who was buddies with Virginia’s boyfriend, Tony – when she was 13.
She remembers Virginia as ‘bubbly and pleasant’. ‘She had a means of constructing me really feel snug and I trusted her. We turned buddies and immediately I believed she would have my greatest pursuits, it doesn’t matter what, at coronary heart. She knew how previous I used to be, and she or he knew I got here from a damaged house.’
Virginia would choose Carolyn up from faculty and the 4 of them used to ‘hang around and smoke pot’. ‘I felt fairly damned good about it as a result of everyone else needed to stroll house or their mum or dad got here to select them up. However I had a fairly good friend, who was older, with a automotive. I believed I used to be fairly cool for being her good friend.’
Carolyn described to the courtroom how Virginia had requested her if she’d wish to ‘go and make some cash’. All she needed to do was go to a good friend’s home in Palm Seashore and provides him a therapeutic massage. The ‘good friend’ was Jeffrey Epstein, and his home was the beachside mansion, the place ladies had been often enticed to are likely to his insatiable wants.
‘At 14 years previous, I used to be massive breasted and I positively might move for 21 once I was made up. I did my very own make-up however Virginia gave me garments. She gave me these actually tight skimpy shorts with a spaghetti strap high with all my cleavage hanging out.
‘She simply mentioned no matter you do, don’t say your age. And I didn’t even ask why. I went together with it.’
On that first go to to Epstein’s villa in 2001, Carolyn met Maxwell, who instructed Virginia to ‘convey her upstairs and present her what to do’. They went to Epstein’s rest room, the place Virginia arrange a therapeutic massage desk.
‘Epstein got here in. He mentioned he simply got here again from a jog. He brushed his tooth, gave Virginia a kiss on the cheek, checked out me, launched himself, he took off his shorts and his shirt and was nude and laid on high of the therapeutic massage desk face down.
‘And I checked out Virginia and she or he eye-motioned to me to say “don’t fear, it is going to be OK”. Forty-five minutes into the therapeutic massage, he flipped over. I stepped again and Virginia climbed on high of him and proceeded to have intercourse with him.
‘I didn’t know what to do or say or the place to go, so I sat on the sofa and watched till it was completed. We walked again downstairs and Maxwell requested, “how did every little thing go?” Virginia gave her a glance to say it was an awesome session and that’s when Maxwell requested me for my phone quantity.’ Three $100 payments had been handed over as fee for her time.
Carolyn returned to the home about ‘100 instances’ over the subsequent 4 years, generally three or 4 instances per week. Money can be laid on the sink within the rest room. She stored coming again as a result of ‘$300 was some huge cash whenever you’re 14’.
The ‘massages’ all the time adopted the identical routine: plenty of ladies – some she knew, some she didn’t, all of them younger – rubbing Epstein’s again and buttocks earlier than he flipped over.
Though she and Epstein by no means had full intercourse, she was sexually assaulted a number of instances.
One time, Maxwell supplied to take Carolyn to Epstein’s personal island within the Caribbean. ‘I informed her there was no means in Hell my mum was going to let me go away the nation. I informed her I used to be 14.’
At some point in 2002, Virginia merely disappeared: ‘Vanished – poof – her boyfriend Tony was actually upset.’
Epstein informed Carolyn she’d gone overseas for college, however she was suspicious and fearful one thing had occurred to her good friend.
It later transpired Epstein had paid for her to attend a global therapeutic massage coaching faculty in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was right here that Virginia met Robert Giuffre, an Australian martial arts coach, and the 2 rapidly married. She contacted Epstein to say she wouldn’t be coming again.
The next 12 months, Carolyn made a break for it, too. Aged 16, she and her boyfriend ‘ran away’ to Georgia, the place Carolyn received pregnant. Her son was born in March 2004.
With cash tight, she tried to select up the threads of her previous job with Epstein: ‘He requested me if I had any youthful buddies and I mentioned “no”. And that’s once I realised I used to be too previous. I used to be 18.’
In 2007, because the FBI began gathering proof towards Epstein, Carolyn gave her first assertion to prosecutors. Final month, it was her flip within the witness stand.
‘I had rosary beads in my fingers for your entire time and my husband was within the courtroom and each time I felt like I used to be getting weak, he would give me a bit of thumbs up or I’d clench the beads. I used to be decided to have the power to have this girl put away for what she did to me and different younger ladies.
‘Positive, they accused me of mendacity, however I knew that was coming and I stood as much as it as a result of I used to be telling the God’s sincere reality.’
She was permitted to make use of solely her first identify all through the trial, however now she’s proud to disclose her full id to the world.
‘I’m not ashamed at being a sufferer of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. For different ladies which were victimised, I would like them to know that it’s OK to come back out and inform someone – even when you don’t need to be recognized – and the earlier the higher.
‘I would like individuals to know these horrible issues have occurred to me and that I’m a survivor.
I need to let the opposite victims know, there’s no timeframe on when you may speak about it, to get assist. I’m very joyful being a spouse and a mom and I need to present individuals how the tragedies in my life didn’t cease me. I’m overcoming them. I’m not going to let Maxwell and Epstein spoil my life any extra. I’m grateful day-after-day once I get up.’
As for Prince Andrew, she senses his story is way from over.
‘I by no means received to ask Virginia about Prince Andrew once more after she informed me about it. She’d informed me by no means to repeat it once more.’
As for Virginia, her lawyer David Boies confused that it was vital to keep in mind that she too was a sufferer of trafficking, regardless of every little thing she did to convey Carolyn into the fold.
Talking to the Mail, he mentioned: ‘Virginia has mentioned for years that her position in facilitating different younger ladies’s involvement is one thing that she has all the time regretted. However that truth doesn’t have something to do with the reality of her allegations.
‘No one is saying these younger, weak ladies had been excellent in each respect. They had been inclined to the sort of threats they had been subjected to and it’s in no way shocking they did issues they later remorse.’
How, and if, the Queen’s second eldest son offers together with his personal, private, tragedy unfolding in his personal life stays to be seen.
Representatives for Andrew final night time declined to touch upon Carolyn’s revelations.