Jeffrey Epstein confirmed photo of then-Prince Andrew and accuser Virginia Giuffre is real

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to confirm in leaked emails that the infamous photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor posing with his teenage sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, was legit — despite the disgraced ex-prince repeatedly suggesting it was fake.The convicted pedophile’s mentions of Andrew were among those laid bare in the trove of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.In an email exchange with a reporter in 2011, Epstein acknowledged that the then-royal had been snapped in a photo with Giuffre, the BBC reported.“Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have,” Epstein wrote as he trashed Giuffre’s credibility.An ill-famed photo taken around 2001 had captured a smiling Andrew with his arm wrapped around Giuffre’s waist as Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, stood next to them.Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier in April, had long claimed Epstein and Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew when she was just 17 years old.Andrew, who has long denied the allegations, repeatedly tried to sow doubt about the controversial photo’s authenticity over the years.“I have no recollection of that photograph ever having been taken,” a defiant Andrew said in a trainwreck 2019 BBC interview that led to him being booted from royal duties.“It’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph,” Andrew continued.“Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored.”He later bizarrely reasoned that the snap, which Giuffre said was taken in Maxwell’s London mansion, couldn’t possibly be real — because he didn’t dole out hugs as a royal.“I’m terribly sorry, but if I, as a member of the royal family, and I have a photograph taken — and I take very, very few photographs — I am not one to, um, as it were, hug,” he said.“Public displays of affection are not something that, that I do.So.

That’s the best explanation I can give you.”...