Ghislaine Maxwell has set the record straight about her friendship with Prince Andrew and revealed she never introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein during a recent interview
Convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that she didn’t introduce Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein – and revealed who connected them instead.
According to Maxwell, Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson encouraged a friendship between the pair. She further explained that Sarah had met Epstein through US socialite Lynn Forester De Rothschild. She made the bombshell remarks during a two-day interview with US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month.
However, the audio recordings and the 380-page transcript were only released last night. During the tapes, Maxwell spoke about several high profile individuals, but nothing she said was incriminating. She said: “I did not introduce him [Epstein] to Prince Andrew. That’s a flat untruth. Lynn Forester had a house… and invited Epstein to go and I believe that’s where he met Prince Andrew.
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“However, I believe that before that event he had gone to the Bahamas and had hung out with Sarah Ferguson. And Sarah had called Epstein and had arranged with Lynn. I think Sarah is the one that pushed that. I couldn’t even imagine Epstein and Andrew together. And I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey.”
It comes after Andrew had claimed during his 2019 car crash BBC Newsnight interview that Maxwell introduced him to Epstein. “I didn’t know Andrew in the ’90s,” she said. “I believe that before that event, he had gone to the Bahamas and had hung out with Sarah Ferguson. And Sarah had called Epstein and had arranged with Lynn, or I don’t know. I don’t know. Now I’m speculating. Anyway, long and short, he met Andrew up there.”
She went on: “I would never have introduced them. It would never have occurred to me to introduce them. I couldn’t imagine them being friends. Two chalk and cheeses would never — I mean, for real, there’s nothing there to connect them.”
Far from being the glue that bound Andrew and Epstein, Maxwell insisted she actually felt “excluded” when the two men started socialising. She admitted she was “pissed off” at one stage, claiming she even suspected Ferguson of “trying to put the moves on Jeffrey” when the Duchess holidayed with him in the Bahamas.
But she described her own bond with Andrew as warm and enduring. “We got on like a house on fire,” she recalled. “In New York especially, he knew I was safe.” Maxwell also went on the offensive over the infamous photograph of Andrew with his arm around the waist of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, taken at her London home.
She branded the snap “fake” alleging the date scrawled on the back was wrong and claiming the entire image was cooked up to bolster a legal case. “I believe this whole thing was manufactured,” she said.
