By John Sumnagio
Prince Andrew has been accused of saying some not nice things about Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused him of sexual impropriety.
According to a report this weekend, the prince referred to her as “a very sick girl” and offered that he should “shrug and move on.”
According to reports, Andrew made those statements 9 years ago, after he was allegedly connected to a sex scandal surrounding his good friend, the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to the Daily Mail, it was not the first time that Prince Andrew had made derogatory statements about Giuffre.
Those statements seemed to contradict his claims that he never remembered meeting her. She claims she was a victim of sex trafficking, starting when she was 17 years old. According to the report in the Daily Mail, Prince Andrew said “She is a very sick girl apparently. The innuendo is the problem. But there is nothing that one can do for that! Shrug and move on.”
Andrew, who is also the Duke of York, has accused American prosecutors of “failing to play with a straight bat” after they publicly humiliated him by claiming he was not cooperating with the Epstein investigation.
“Sources close to the Duke, 59, revealed that his lawyers were preparing to counter claims that he had ignored multiple appeals for an interview from the FBI. The Sunday Telegraph understands they intend to release a statement clarifying their position imminently,” according to The Telegraph. “It comes amid increasing confusion about exactly what the FBI has asked of the Duke and its specific means of contact. Geoffrey Berman, a US attorney, made what was deemed an unprecedented move last week when he announced that the Duke had provided “zero cooperation” following the FBI’s requests for an interview about Epstein.”
It was back in November that Prince Andrew said he would step back from public duties for the “foreseeable future,” in “the wake of his disastrous BBC interview about his relationship with the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier. Andrew first met Epstein in 1999 and they saw each other on several occasions after that. In 2010, Andrew was photographed walking with Epstein in New York’s Central Park – two years after the financier’s first conviction for child molestation,” according to newidea.com.
Last week, lawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing some of Epstein’s alleged victims but not Giuffre, told BBC Radio 4 that she would try to subpoena Andrew if he were to step foot in the United States. “Certainly, if he ever came back to the United States—that would be one of the first things that I’m sure a lot of lawyers, including me, would want to do,” she said. “If he has done nothing wrong, which appears to be what he has claimed, then why won’t he talk to law enforcement?” noted Vanity Fair.
