Prince Andrew took part in orgy with nine girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, alleged victim says

Prince Andrew took part in an orgy with nine girls on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, one of their alleged victims has claimed.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who was pictured with the royal’s arm around her waist when she around 17 years old, made the allegation in US court documents.

The Duke of York has repeatedly denied the claim, but Ms Roberts Giuffre has said that they had sex on three occasions.

“The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands,” she wrote in evidence to a Florida court in 2015. “I was around 18 at the time. Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English.”

She added that Epstein, a convicted paedophile who took his own life in prison while awaiting trial on further child abuse charges in August, “laughed about the fact they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the ‘easiest’ girls to get along with”.

The allegations are explored in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme called The Prince and the Paedophile.

Mike Fisten, who played a key role in exposing Epstein’s crimes while working for an attorney representing some of the victims, told the programme that they could “never get access” to Epstein’s private island called Little St James, “so we never knew for sure what was going on”.

The former Florida detective added: “We knew that he had a helicopter on the mainland, and he would shuttle himself, his guests and girls back and forth to the island. He felt that he had free rein over there.”

Medical records that appear to support Ms Roberts Giuffre’s claim that she was abused by Epstein or others on separate occasions were obtained by Dispatches.

The documents from New York Presbyterian Hospital show that she was admitted on 9 July 2001 after three weeks of vaginal bleeding.

In a separate legal declaration from 2015, Ms Roberts Giuffre wrote: “Without going into the details of the sexual activities I was forced to endure, there were times when I was physically abused to the point that I remember fearfully thinking that I didn’t know whether I was going to survive.”

There is no suggestion that Prince Andrew was responsible for her injuries, but Dispatches has established that the royal met Epstein at least 10 times during their 12-year friendship and sometimes stayed with him for several days.

Mr Fisten also suggested that Epstein had 13 phone numbers for the duke.

Ms Roberts Giuffre’s allegations about Prince Andrew were struck from the US court record in 2015.

Shortly after Epstein’s death the prince himself said it was a “mistake and error” to see Epstein after he was released from prison after serving an 18-month sentence for prostituting minors.

“At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction,” the royal said in a statement.

“I have said previously that it was a mistake and an error to see him after his release in 2010 and I can only reiterate my regret that I was mistaken to think that what I thought I knew of him was evidently not the real person, given what we now know.”

Buckingham Palace has said that “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue”.

It added: “It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact with Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”

Dispatches will air at 10pm this evening on Channel 4