Ghislaine Maxwell, jailed for sex trafficking, calls Prince Andrew’s photo with her accuser “fake”

Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, jailed for helping disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assault a girl, has said a photo of Prince Andrew with his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is a “fake”, according to Guardian, Maxwell spoke about the 2001 photo in a video interview from prison, where she was serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein, who died in 2019, the outlet further said. The 61-year-old pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and grooming the girls for Epstein, who was a friend of Prince Andrew.

Maxwell said, “I don’t believe it’s real for a second. It’s a fake… There’s never been an original and there’s no further picture. I’ve only seen a photocopy of it.” Guardian,

The interview was conducted in August and its clip has been released by Talk TV, which will air it on Monday’s Jeremy Kyle live show.

“I don’t believe this is real for one second.”

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Giuffre has sued Prince Andrew in a US court, claiming he was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. She also claims they had sex in London when she was 17 and a minor under US law.

Prince Andrew has denied these allegations and continues to do so. He has not been criminally charged but has stepped back from royal duties. Prince Andrew was also stripped of his military titles after publicly criticizing the $16.3 million settlement.

He had paid the money to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms. Giuffre.

The photograph which has been used as a key claim against Andrew shows him with his arm around Giuffre’s waist and Maxwell standing next to them.

in an interview with BBC In 2019, Andrew questioned the authenticity of the photo, claiming that he had never met Giuffre. Andrew also claimed that the photo could not have been taken in London because he was in his traveling clothes.

Andrew told the BBC at the time, “It’s a picture of a picture of a picture … nobody can prove whether that picture has been tampered with or not.”