Ghislaine Maxwell claimed Sarah Ferguson introduced Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein (Image: Jimi Celeste/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images and Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that Prince Andrew’s ex wife Sarah Ferguson is the one who “pushed” for a friendship with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a new interview. Maxwell, 63, sat down with US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month to answer a series of questions about Epstein, her former boyfriend.
In the interview, Maxwell - who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with Epstein - claimed that she did not introduce Prince Andrew to Epstein. Instead, she has claimed that Andrew - who stepped back from royal life as a result of scandals surrounding his friendship with Epstein - was introduced to the late convicted sex offender by his ex wife Sarah Ferguson.
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In a transcript of her interview with US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, Maxwell was reported to have said that Sarah introduced Andrew to Epstein after she met him via US socialite Lynn Forester De Rothschild.
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As reported by The Daily Mail, Maxwell said in the interview: “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.”
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein were once friends (Image: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Maxwell then described Sarah, Duchess of York, as a “frenemy”. She said: “I don't know if she liked me... I think my friendship with her ex-husband, well, sometimes she really did like me and sometimes she didn't. So maybe a frenemy. I think there was some latent hostility.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Maxwell also said that sex allegations made by the late Virginia Giuffre against Prince Andrew were not true, with Maxwell having no “recollection” of the pair ever meeting.
Prince Andrew has always strongly denied the claims made against him by Giuffre.
Sarah Ferguson has been approached for comment on the claims made by Maxwell.
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