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Last week, the Prince was accused of abusing 'Jane Doe 3' - an
anonymous name used in American court papers - at an orgy on Epstein's
Caribbean island (bottom right). Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts
(pictured centre in 2011), whose story was first uncovered in 2007 by
The Mail on Sunday. She told an extraordinary story of how she spent
three years as an under-age 'sex slave' working for the billionaire
financier, a friend of the Prince, and paid to give erotic massages to
the tycoon and his associates. She also claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell,
daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, acted as Epstein's
'madame'. The allegations by Miss Roberts (top right aged 15 in 1998)
are threatening the reputation of the Queen's second son. The Palace has
emphatically denied that the Prince (pictured inset with Epstein in
2011) has had relations with underage girls. Now, the most complete
story yet of how this young woman (pictured left with her husband on her
wedding day in 2002) was exploited by Epstein's shuttered world of
seedy sex and influence can be published.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The first full account of the masseuse at the center of the explosive Prince Andrew 'sex slave' drama... but is she telling the truth?
- Prince accused of abusing 'Jane Doe 3' at orgy where she was 'sex slave'
- Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts, whose story was first uncovered in 2007
- She told extraordinary story of three years working for billionaire Epstein
- Said that she was paid to give erotic massages to tycoon and associates
- Claimed Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Robert, acted as his 'madame'
- Palace has emphatically denied Prince had relations with underage girls
- Now the most complete story yet of this young woman can be published
Breaking her silence: Miss Roberts when she spoke to the Mail on Sunday in 2011
It
is the most extraordinary story of sex, power, influence and the abuse
of young girls and it has already sent Jeffrey Epstein, one of the
richest men in America, to jail.
And
today this sordid saga erupted once again with Prince Andrew
sensationally forced to deny having any sexual contact with the woman
whose claims have dogged him for years. Last week, the Prince was
accused of abusing ‘Jane Doe 3’ – an anonymous name used in American
court papers – at an orgy where she was being used as a sex slave. Jane
Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts, whose story was first uncovered in 2007 by
The Mail on Sunday following a painstaking investigation by our reporter
Sharon Churcher, who tracked her to Australia.
The
story Miss Roberts told was extraordinary – how she spent three years
as an under-age ‘sex slave’ working for billionaire Epstein, a friend of
the Prince, and paid to give erotic massages to the tycoon and his
associates. She also claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of
disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, acted as Epstein’s ‘madame’.
The
allegations by Miss Roberts are threatening the reputation of the
Queen’s second son. The Palace has emphatically denied that the Prince
has had relations with underage girls.
Now,
thanks to the court documents Miss Roberts lodged in Florida last week,
The Mail on Sunday can publish the most complete story yet of how this
young woman was exploited by Epstein’s shuttered world of seedy sex and
influence. We spoke to Miss Roberts twice, the last time just 12 months
ago. While fragments of her testimony to us were reproduced last week,
only now can we present her comprehensive account with previously
unpublished material.
Last
week it was sensationally claimed that Prince Andrew had taken part in
what, it was implied, was sex with a girl who was under the age of
consent according to the law in Florida. As the papers lodged in the
Palm Beach court spell out: ‘Epstein forced Jane Doe 3 to have sexual
relations with a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (aka
Duke of York).
‘Epstein
instructed Jane Doe 3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he
demanded and required Jane Doe 3 to report back to him on the details of
the sexual abuse. Maxwell facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual
abuse by acting as a “madame” for Epstein.’
In response, Buckingham Palace issued a strongly worded denial.
But
Miss Roberts’s account differs. She says she first encountered Epstein
and later Prince Andrew through Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the
disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.
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She
was working as a changing room assistant in the spa at Donald Trump’s
palatial Florida country club, Mar-A-Lago, where her father was a
maintenance manager. Soon after her 15th birthday, in 1998, she says she
met Ghislaine at the club.
The
socialite was a friend of Epstein’s and the pair were known in New York
and London for their hedonistic lifestyle, which concerned Royal
courtiers after Andrew began to associate with them. Andrew was
photographed surrounded by topless women during one holiday with them in
Thailand and was pictured sweatily cavorting with Ghislaine at a
Halloween sado-masochistic-themed party in Manhattan, reinforcing his
public image as a party loving playboy.
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Teen: Miss Roberts pictured aged 15 at her mother's home in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1998
Miss
Roberts says she had no idea of the risks she was running when she
leapt at an invitation from Ghislaine to work for Epstein. ‘I was
wearing my sexy white Mar-A- Lago uniform – a white miniskirt and a
skintight white polo top – and studying an anatomy book when I was
approached by this striking woman in her mid-40s with a very proper
British accent – Ghislaine,’ Miss Roberts told The Mail on Sunday.
‘She
noticed what I was reading and I told her I wanted to become a masseuse
and she said she worked for a very wealthy gentleman called Jeffrey
Epstein who was looking for a travelling masseuse and I’d get training
and be paid large amounts of money.’
Miss
Roberts was told she could start work immediately and was driven to
Epstein’s sugar-pink mansion on the Palm Beach waterfront. The stairway
was decorated with photos of naked young girls and Miss Roberts
eventually would learn that she, too, was being photographed by hidden
cameras.
‘But
I was too nervous to take it in,’ she says. ‘Another lady led me into
Jeffrey’s bedroom. It had a king-size bed, and a spiral staircase that
led down to a pool.
Youthful pose: Virginia Roberts as a teenager in 1997, before she met Jeffrey Epstein
‘The
lady walked me straight through into the massage room. It was part of a
suite – a shower room, a steam room and another closet-sized room where
I later learned the sex toys were kept.
‘Jeffrey
was lying face-down on a table, completely naked. He asked me a whole
bunch of questions and within the first hour, he knew my life story. I
told him I’d been a runaway and I’d lived on the street and I’d taken
ecstasy tablets and I wasn’t a virgin and he said, “So you’re a bad girl
in a good girl’s body”.’
‘The
lady told me to follow her instructions. She had me put oil on my hands
and then she grabbed one of his feet and started to massage it and she
told me to take his other foot. Then she took off her shirt and started
rubbing her breasts across Jeffrey and told me to take off my clothes.
He had sex with me and the woman fondled me. I was thinking, “This is
wrong. This is not legitimate massage.” But they liked me. The lady
said, “She’s got a knack for it.’’ And I thought, “These are important
people. I must be doing something right.” The lady gave me $200 [£130]
and said I was to come back the next day.’
Miss
Roberts was nauseated by the sexual acts that she was instructed to
perform. But she was charmed by Epstein’s rags-to-riches life story –
which, he intimated, was an example to her. ‘Jeffrey said he wanted to
be my mentor,’ says Miss Roberts. ‘I felt that he and Ghislaine really
cared for me. We’d do family things, like watch Sex And The City and eat
popcorn.
‘But
it was a sick family. I was a paedophile’s top girl, being trained up
for a British Prince. He trained me to do whatever a man wanted. I was
worried, but I would do anything to keep Jeffrey happy and keep my place
as his No 1 girl.’
It
was in 2001 that Miss Roberts was told she would be flying to London –
and after they landed they drove straight to Ghislaine’s house.
‘Ghislaine showed me upstairs to a small bedroom. That night I gave
Jeffrey an erotic massage. I was jetlagged. I went to sleep.
‘The
next morning, Ghislaine came into my room. She was chirpy and really
giddy. She jumped on the bed and said, “Get up, get up, sleepyhead.
You’ve got a big day. We’ve gotta go shopping. You need a dress because
you’re going to dance with a prince tonight.” She said I needed to be
“smiley” and bubbly and very happy to be around him and give a lot of
energy to him because he was the Queen’s son. Miss Roberts said they
went shopping for a £5,000 Burberry bag and other designer dresses,
perfume and makeup. ‘We got back to Ghislaine’s house around 4pm and I
ran straight upstairs to have a shower,’ she said.
‘When
I went downstairs, Ghislaine and Jeffrey were in the lounge. No one
seemed too fussed even though we were expecting the Duke of York any
minute. There was a knock at the door. There was a car outside with two
men, who I think were security. Ghislaine led Andrew in and introduced
me and we kissed each other on the cheek as I’d been told is the English
custom.
‘Ghislaine
served tea. She knew Fergie, who I gathered was the Prince’s ex-wife,
and they talked very fondly about their daughters. Then Ghislaine played
one of her favourite guessing games. She asked Andrew how old he
thought I was and he guessed 17 and they all kind of laughed about it
and Ghislaine made a joke that I was getting too old for Jeffrey. She
said, “He’ll soon have to trade her in.”’
It was widely known in Jeffrey’s set that he liked young girls.
Miss
Roberts says she sat between Jeffrey and Andrew at dinner, claiming:
‘Andrew was making eye contact with me at every chance and concentrating
on my plunging V-neck top. He didn’t ask me anything about myself. I
just sat there with a smile frozen on my lips. Ghislaine had whispered,
“The Prince seems really interested in you.”
Her big day: Miss Roberts with her husband Robert on their wedding day in Thailand in 2002
‘We
went on to Tramp. We were led into a VIP area and Andrew got me a
cocktail from the bar then he asked me to dance. He was the most hideous
dancer I had ever seen. He was grabbing my hips and he was pouring with
perspiration and he had this cheesy smile. I was used to being used for
sex by men but it was not behaviour that I was used to in public, and
not from a Prince who had daughters. I felt everyone was watching us.’
By
her account, Miss Roberts’s first tryst with the then 41-year-old
Prince allegedly took place later that night at Ghislaine Maxwell’s
London townhouse. ‘All of us went upstairs and I asked Jeffrey to snap a
picture of me with the Prince. I wanted something to show my Mom.
Ghislaine and Jeffrey left us after that,’ she said.
‘In
the morning, Ghislaine said, “You did well. He had fun.” We flew
straight back to the States. I suspected that the only reason we went to
London was that I was a “gift” to Andrew.’
Miss
Roberts makes the extraordinary claim that she was paid about $15,000
(just under £10,000) by the 58-year-old Epstein as a reward for sleeping
with the Prince and other sexual services for Epstein.
There is no suggestion that the Prince knew that Epstein paid her.
Going public: Miss Roberts as she is now
‘I
was totally under Jeffrey’s spell. I was his personal sex slave.
Ghislaine joked about how young I was when they introduced me to
Andrew.’
Despite
the Palace’s vehement denials of impropriety, Miss Roberts says: ‘It
was made clear to me that my job was to do whatever pleased him’ –
adding that she ‘wouldn’t have dared object’ to any demand.
‘The
Prince didn’t give me money with his own hands,’ she added. ‘Jeffrey
always took care of paying me after I “entertained” his friends.’’
Andrew
was at the time a special trade envoy, but after Epstein was prosecuted
he resigned. He subsequently broke off his friendship with the
financier and has been working to rebuild his reputation with his
charitable trust. His focus is on trying to grow British prosperity,
including training young people to become ‘economically active’ through
schemes such as apprentices and a digital enterprise award.
Speaking later, Miss Roberts said she remains mortified by her meeting with Prince Andrew.
‘To
be honest, I was sort of excited to meet the Prince. That was the
lifestyle to which Jeffrey had accustomed me,’ the blonde, now 30, said.
Miss Roberts says she met Andrew for a second time around Easter 2001, at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
‘I
was in Florida when I was called up and told I was needed in New York,’
she recalls. ‘When I got to the mansion, I was told, “Get ready. You
are meeting someone in the library.” Andrew was sitting there in a big
leather armchair behind which there was a desk covered with photos of
girls and young women, including one of me.
‘I
was almost nude in the picture. I don’t think Andrew could have missed
seeing it when he walked in. Ghislaine had just given him a present,
some kind of big blow-up toy that was his Spitting Image puppet. He was
smiling ear-to-ear. He looked like a kid whose parents were taking him
to Disney World.
‘A
beautiful girl called Johanna Sjoberg, who worked for Jeffrey, was
sitting on Andrew’s knee. Ghislaine guided me over to Andrew and I think
he recognised me though I don’t know if he remembered my name. We
kissed each other on the cheek and Ghislaine placed me on his other
knee.’
In
an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Johanna has confirmed the
encounter, saying she was 21 at the time and had been hired by Ghislaine
to answer phones and serve drinks in return for $20 (£13) an hour.
Ghislaine
subsequently asked her to give Epstein foot massages, she elaborated,
and the tycoon tried to persuade her to ‘touch his nipples’. ‘He
couldn’t believe I refused. No one else had ever done that,’ she said.
Friends: Prince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2011 after the financier's conviction
After
being introduced to Andrew in the library, she sat on his lap. Miss
Roberts says it was made clear to her that she was expected to have sex
with Andrew – although again the Palace completely refutes any
suggestion of impropriety.
‘Ghislaine
said, “You should take him upstairs for a massage,” ’ she says, burying
her face in her hands. ‘I took him upstairs to the Dungeon. He
undressed and lay face down on the table. I started with his feet, then
his calves the way Jeffrey liked it.’
This
time there was no extra payment for the session, she added. ‘Because I
wasn’t on the road, I just got my usual hourly rate, which at that time
was $200.'
Miss Roberts claims that her first
tryst with the then 41-year-old Prince allegedly took place later at the
London townhouse of Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured
She
met Andrew one final time on Epstein’s Caribbean island, where she says
she entertained him with an ‘orgy’. ‘I flew there with Jeffrey and
Ghislaine,’ she says, ‘and seven Russian girls who didn’t speak a word
of English turned up with a modelling agent. Jeffrey was so excited. He
said, “We’re going to do a big photo shoot with you and the girls.” The
agent took the pictures.
‘They
were very provocative. We were topless and he had us in sexual
positions. Then were told to assemble in a big cabana. When I walked in,
Andrew and Jeffrey were seated in chairs. Jeffrey directed us with hand
gestures. Jeffrey and the Prince were laughing. The next day, Andrew
was gone.
‘I
remember thinking I would never have a normal life again but, as sick
as it sounds, Jeffrey was my master. I was totally in his power. I never
thought of trying to escape.’
For
her 19th birthday, in August 2002, Epstein purchased a plane ticket to
Thailand for her, where he enrolled her in a massage course.
Asked
if she planned to escape, she blushes. Despite the degradation she
endured, she insists that she never would have lied to her ‘mentor’.
‘I really did think that I could give him better massages if I studied in Thailand,’ she says.
Shortly
after arriving there, however, she met an Australian martial arts
expert, whom we have agreed to identify only by his first name, Robert.
They fell in love and, just ten days later, they married.
‘Robert taught me how to live again,’ says Miss Roberts.
For
11 years, they lived in virtual seclusion in a rural suburb of Sydney.
But a year ago, the couple moved back to America with their three young
children. ‘I still dream about Jeffrey. I still wake up at night in
tears,’ said Miss Roberts, who is working on a memoir.
Her memory of Prince Andrew plays heavily on her mind.
‘A lot of powerful men were part of Jeffrey’s scene, but I specifically remember Andrew,’ she says.
But
she says it is now time ‘to fight’, adding: ‘When I think of what he
and these other men did, it breaks my heart. I am going to name every
guy who deserves to be named when I go to court.’
And
yesterday she said she was being ‘unjustly victimised again’ after her
account was called into question. ‘These types of aggressive attacks on
me are exactly the reason why sexual abuse victims typically remain
silent and the reason why I did for a long time,’ she says. ‘That trend
should change. I’m not going to be bullied back into silence.’
Epstein’s lawyer Jack Goldberg said the allegations were old and salacious and had been consistently proven to have no merit.
Ghislaine
Maxwell was not available for comment but has previously branded all
claims against her as ‘untrue’ and ‘obvious lies’.
Firefighters spend TWO HOURS freeing mother, 35, from chimney of her ex-partner's home
- Officers received a 911 call at 5am on Saturday to Riverside, CA, home
- They found woman trapped in chimney, took 2 hours getting her out
- Homeowner said she is mother to his children, he didn't want her there
Firefighters spent two hours freeing a woman from inside the chimney of her ex-boyfriend's house.
Two dozen officers were called to the property in Riverside County, California, at 5am on Saturday.
The
homeowner, who has not been identified, said the 35-year-old woman is
mother to his three children and he did not want her in the house.
Get me out of here! Two dozen firefighters worked for two hours to break the woman free from the chimney
It is not clear why she was in the chimney.
A photograph from the scene posted on KNBC-TV's
website shows a pair of soot-covered legs dangling inside the brick
structure, which had been partially dismantled by firefighters.
Officials say the rescue process took two hours.
Once freed, she was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.
Rescue mission: They were forced to smash a hole in the wall of the 35-year-old's ex-partner's home
Got the call: The team was called to the Riverside, CA, property at 5am on Saturday to rescue the woman
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