Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell drew a blank about Prince Andrew and a teenaged Virginia Guiffre ever spending time together, claiming in an interview a picture of the two together was faked.
Speaking for the first time since she was sentenced to 20 years for trafficking young girls to be abused by financier Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell said she has no recollection of the shamed prince and Guiffre ever meeting.
Despite being in the photograph herself, Maxwell insisted it was doctored.
Guiffre has maintained Andrew sexually abused her three times when she was a teen — in London, New York and on Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
In the interview airing Monday night, Maxwell asserted that “I have no memory of them meeting.”
“And I don’t think that picture is real,” she said of the photo that shows Prince Andrew with an arm around Guiffre and Maxwell grinning in the background. “It is a fake. I don’t believe it is real for a second, in fact I am sure it is not.”
“I don’t remember her in my home,” Ghislaine Maxwell said about Virginia Guiffre. AP
Ghislaine Maxwell claims that this photo is doctored. AFP/US District Court – Southern District of New YorkMaxwell added: “There is no original of that photo, [just] copies of copies and parts of it, according to some experts, looks like it has been photoshopped. I don’t remember her in my home,” The Sun reported.
Prince Andrew has long been connected to Maxwell and Epstein, who died by suicide in his Manhattan prison cell in 2019.
Guiffre and Andrew reached a settlement in February 2022. The terms were not disclosed.
Virginia Guiffre and Prince Andrew reached a settlement in February of last year. APThe highly anticipated interview, coined “Ghislaine Behind Bars,” is set to air on Jeremy Kyle’s UK TalkTV show Monday at 7 p.m.
“Maxwell lifts the lid on Epstein, Prince Andrew and even our late Queen. This is Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars in her own words,” Kyle told viewers.
Maxwell, 61, has recently expressed her admiration for the Queen.
“I thought the queen was one of the most exceptional women I ever had the honor and privilege of meeting,” Maxwell told the Daily Mail on Sunday from behind bars.
Ghislaine Maxwell was interviewed from prison. Talk TVShe noted she was “profoundly sorry” after hearing news of her death in September 2022 at the age of 96.
Maxwell had been a guest of the queen’s son Prince Andrew over the decades and was notably pictured at Balmoral Castle with Epstein in 1999.
The interview comes as Prince Andrew is allegedly attempting to overturn the multi-million dollar settlement he and Guiffre agreed upon last year in hope she’ll retract her sexual assault allegations, according to The Sun.
