Intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein took his personal life in 2019 at age 66 (File)

Washington:

A girl who has mentioned she was victimized by late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Britain’s Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001, in response to courtroom paperwork from a civil lawsuit unsealed on Wednesday.

The incident, which has been beforehand reported by different media shops and Andrew has denied, was among the many particulars described in an preliminary trove of beforehand redacted paperwork that in any other case revealed few new particulars concerning the extent of Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking actions.

Extra paperwork are anticipated to be unsealed or unredacted within the coming days.

Prince Andrew couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Epstein socialized with Wall Avenue titans, royalty and celebrities earlier than pleading responsible to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He took his personal life in 2019 at age 66 whereas awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking costs.

Dozens of ladies have accused Epstein of forcing them to offer sexual providers to him and his visitors at his non-public Caribbean island and houses he owned in New York, Florida and New Mexico.

The names of greater than 150 folks talked about in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, one in every of Epstein’s most distinguished accusers, have been saved underneath seal for years till a federal decide dominated final month that there was no authorized justification to maintain them non-public.

In a deposition, Giuffre mentioned she had intercourse with a number of politicians and monetary leaders.

Giuffre’s deposition named a number of distinguished figures who’ve beforehand denied her allegations, together with hedge-fund proprietor Glenn Dubin, billionaire U.S. businessman Tom Pritzker and the late New Mexico Governor Invoice Richardson.

She mentioned she additionally had intercourse with different political leaders whose names she couldn’t bear in mind.

Dubin couldn’t instantly reached for remark. A spokesperson for Pritzker mentioned the businessman “continues to vehemently deny” the allegation.

Sigrid McCawley, Giuffre’s lawyer, mentioned some questions on who enabled Epstein have nonetheless not been answered.

“The unsealing of those paperwork will get us nearer to that objective,” she mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.

In a separate deposition, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg mentioned Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast to pose for a photograph with Epstein, Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend.

Sjoberg mentioned the photograph additionally included a puppet that mentioned “Prince Andrew” on it.

This allegation was beforehand reported by the Mirror in 2020.

Andrew has been stripped of most of his royal titles as a result of his affiliation with Epstein.

He settled a civil lawsuit with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, and has denied wrongdoing.

The checklist stems from a long-settled defamation lawsuit that Giuffre filed towards Maxwell.

Maxwell, the daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell, is serving a 20-year jail sentence for recruiting underage ladies for Epstein. She is interesting her conviction.

Giuffre accused Maxwell of recruiting her when she was underage for Epstein to abuse.

U.S. District Choose Loretta Preska, who’s overseeing the case, dominated that some names would stay confidential, together with these of people that have been underage when Epstein abused them.

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