Prince Andrew denies ever having sex with Epstein ‘sex slave’

The infamous photograph of Prince Andrew smiling as he stands with his left arm around the waist of a young Virginia Roberts  (DM)  

UK, (Daily Mail), 17 November 2019 -  Prince Andrew last night spoke publicly for the first time in a ‘no holds barred’ interview about his relationship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein - denying he ever had sex with the financier’s ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts.   

The Duke of York faced questions on BBC Newsnight about his links to Epstein who was found dead aged 66 earlier this year in a prison cell while being held on sex trafficking charges.   
Andrew maintained he doesn’t recall meeting Miss Roberts and didn’t spend time with her at Tramp Nightclub in London on March 10 in 2001 after which she claims the pair first had sex.  
The duke denied he slept with Mrs Giuffre on three separate occasions, saying the encounter in 2001 did not happen as he had taken his daughter Princess Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking for a party, and they spent the rest of the day together.   

A photograph apparently showing Andrew with his arm around then 17-year-old Roberts, now Giuffre, that evening and with Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell standing in the background, has been widely published. Supporters of Andrew, however, have disputed its authenticity.   

The Duke of York said: ‘I was with the children and I’d taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking for a party at I suppose sort of 4 or 5 in the afternoon.  
‘And then because the Duchess was away, we have a simple rule in the family that when one is away the other one is there’.