Jeffrey Epstein admitted ‘he needed to have something on Prince Andrew’ when quizzed about their friendship
JEFFREY Epstein admitted ‘he needed to have something on Prince Andrew’ when once asked about their friendship, a new documentary claims.
In ‘Surviving Jeffrey Epstein’, accuser Lisa Phillips claims “sex slave” Virginia Roberts was not the only woman the twisted tycoon dispatched to the under-fire royal.
“Most of the girls didn’t speak about what happened with Prince Andrew, but I had one very good friend who confided in me about her experience with him,” she claims.
“She told me that Jeffrey kind of instructed her to go into a room and have sex with Prince Andrew.”
A number of contributors to the four-part series – being screened on Lifetime – also claim Epstein would provide the woman to his associates before he wanted to have control over other powerful people.
“He just mentioned that he needs to have something on people,” adds Phillips.
Roberts told the documentary: “There were times that he would send me on a commercial flight to go meet the people… saying, ‘I want you to take care of them and report back to me what they liked, what you did for them’.”
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Barbara Ziv explained: “Once [Epstein] gets someone to accept to have sex with an underage kid, it gives him some power over the individual when the individual accepts.
“[Epstein] thought of these girls as commodities. He gave them out like he’d give out a good bottle of wine or a trip on his boat or a flight to somewhere…They were nothing more than objects to him.”
Numerous former associates of Epstein have also said that the rooms in his vast Manhattan townhouse, where Andrew is known to have stayed, were fitted with cameras.
The cameras are said to have been intended to capture compromising footage of Epstein’s guests.
Describing the rumours, New York Times journalist Christopher Mason, a one-time friend of Maxwell’s, says: “The stories I kept on hearing were that in every guest bedroom in Jeffrey Epstein’s house, there were hidden cameras.
“And that part of Jeffrey’s ability to manipulate was that he had this video of powerful men having sex with underage girls.
“And these recordings were held in a safe that Jeffrey was using as a power tool to manipulate wealthy guys to make them do whatever he wanted.”
Shamed financier Epstein killed himself in a New York cell last August while awaiting trial on charges for the sex trafficking of minors.
Andrew has long faced questions about his association with Epstein and alleged Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell, currently awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell strongly denies the allegations against her.
Roberts has previously alleged that she was trafficked by Epstein over a two-year period after being introduced to him by Maxwell in the summer of 2000.
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She says that, in that period, she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions – once in London, once in New York, and once on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
The royal has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding any accusations and has not been charged with any crimes.
Repersentatives for the royal did not wish to comment.