Prince Andrew accused of having ‘underage orgy’ on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island
Prince Andrew was accused of participating in an “underage orgy” on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, according to a newly-unsealed court document.
A 2014 court filing — included in the nearly 1,000 pages of documents that Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska ordered released last month — alleges an underage girl, only identified as “Jane Doe 3,” was “forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations.”
Those included Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, an unspecified location in New York, and “on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other underaged girls).”
The filing also claims Epstein told the “sex slave” to “give the Prince whatever he demanded,” and alleges that Maxwell “facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a ‘madame’ for Epstein” and helping traffic the victim internationally.
It is unclear in the court documents when the alleged orgy took place, but the filing notes Epstein kept Jane Doe 3 as a sex slave from 1999 through 2002.
The allegations were included in a since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre brought against Maxwell in 2015.
Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times around 2001 when she was 17 and 18.
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The age of consent in the US Virgin Islands is 18, but is lower in the UK, at 16.
Another Epstein accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, said in a 2016 deposition that the Duke of York put his hand on her breast as she sat on his lap at the financier’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001.
She also posed for a photo alongside Giuffre, whose breast was groped using a puppet of Andrew, Sjoberg testified, according to her recently unsealed deposition.
“They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo,” she said of Maxwell and Epstein.
What we know about the Jeffrey Epstein list of 170 associates
- On Wednesday, documents were released naming 170 associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The list included Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, Stephen Hawking, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton — who an Epstein victim said “likes them young, referring to girls.”
- Disgraced royal Prince Andrew, a known friend of Epstein, was named in the documents and was previously sued by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexual misconduct toward her. According to one royal family expert, the Firm “will stand beside” the Duke of York “no matter what.”
- Epstein’s former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the late multimillionaire sex offender’s associates, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.” Dershowitz, who is on the list, added that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for showing up in court documents.
- Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told The Post that the ex-business mogul said he could have upended the 2016 election over what he knew about both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: “Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
- Only some of the 170 names and their relationships to Epstein have been released. The remainder of the documents will likely become public record throughout the next week.
Andrew has denied the accusation, which was revealed and reported on in a previous document dump, according to Reuters.
His name appears 69 times in the around 40 filings released late Wednesday — the start of a document dump that’s expected to name more than 170 Epstein associates, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
The prince was previously accused of groping girls on Epstein’s so-called “Pedophile Island,” with the local attorney general claiming in 2020 that one of her employees saw Andrew engaging in the lewd act on a balcony “right out in the open.”
“He said he remembered walking up to him and saying, ‘Good morning, your highness,’” Denise George, the top prosecutor for the US Virgin Islands, told Vanity Fair at the time.
In 2019, Andrew was apparently fired from his royal duties over his ties to Epstein.
Still, the royal family is expected to continue to “stand beside” the disgraced prince, royal commentator Kinsey Schofield said.
“We saw it not only at Sandringham but remember those clear pictures we saw of Prince Andrew in the car with both the Prince and Princess of Wales on the way to church at Balmoral,” she told GBN.
“I think that he has stressed to them that… there are no more skeletons in the closet,” she added.
Schofield continued, “It’s not a great look and I do think that you are as strong as your weakest team member and unfortunately he’s their weakest team member.
“But they’re going to stand by him. It’s never complain, never explain. That’s what their strategy is going to be.”
