Prince Andrew reportedly once called Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave victim Virginia Roberts “a very sick girl”.
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The Duke of York made the shocking comment in a message to a friend shortly after he was first linked to the sex scandal involving Ms Roberts and his paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Daily Mail, Andrew made a comment about Ms Roberts’ health to his friend Jonathan Rowland in 2011.
The “very sick girl” slur came after Mr Rowland had contacted Andrew, saying: “Hope the press isn’t getting you down to [sic] much.”
The Duke replied: “Not at all!… 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.”
His casual comment appears to show little sympathy for Ms Roberts, who now lives in Cairns, who had bravely waived her anonymity to tell the disturbing story of the years she spent as Epstein’s sex slave.
Last month, Prince Andrew was accused of reportedly ignoring requests for an interview by the FBI in their Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Queen Elizabeth’s son has provided “zero cooperation”.
Berman also revealed to PEOPLE that that the Southern District of New York is looking into possible co-conspirators of Epstein.
In November, Prince Andrew stated he was stepping 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.
The Virginia Roberts said she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times between 1999 and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein. At the time she was under-age according to Florida state’s law.
Buckingham Palace as well as Andrew have continued to deny all allegations.
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.
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