The woman who says she was a trafficking victim made to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 has asked the British public to support her quest for justice.
Virginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, told BBC Panorama in an interview broadcast on Monday (2 DEC. 2019) that people "should not accept this as being OK".
In her first UK television interview on the topic, she described how she said she was trafficked by notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and made to have sex with the Duke of York three times, including once in London.
"This is not some sordid sex story. This is a story of being trafficked," she told the program.
Andrew, 59, has categorically denied having sex with Giuffre and has apologized for his association with Epstein, who died in prison in August in what New York City officials said was a suicide.
The prince has stepped down from royal duties "for the foreseeable future" because of his friendship with Epstein and the allegations of sexual wrongdoing with an underage girl.
He tried to contain the damage by giving a televised interview on the topic, but it backfired in part because he did not express concern for Epstein's victims.
In the Panorama interview, Giuffre said she danced with Andrew at a London nightclub before having sex with him.
"I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell) would have expected from me," she said.
She said that Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, told her she would have to do for the royal what she had done for Epstein, meaning she would have to have sex with the him.
In his recent interview, Andrew said he had never met Giuffre and said he had a medical condition that prevented him from sweating.
BBC Panorama showed a well-publicized image of the prince with his arm around Giuffre's waist, taken at Maxwell's house.
The duke insisted he could not remember that that photo was taken and questioned whether it actually did show his hand.
But Giuffre insisted the photo was genuine, taken by Epstein on her own camera, and said she gave the original to the FBI in 2011.
Epstein was a wealthy financier with many powerful friends. He was in prison on sex trafficking charges when he died.
The scandal is one of the worst to grip the royal household in recent decades.
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