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Ten months after Virginia Geoffre’s suicide, newly released emails appear to support her claims that she met and photographed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The email sent in 2015, Revealed in above Three million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were released by the US Department of Justice on Friday. It was sent to Epstein by “G Maxwell”, believed to be Ghislaine Maxwell. The body of the email is labeled “Draft Statement”.
“I was in London in 2001 (REDACTED) when I met a bunch of friends, including Prince Andrew,” he says. “The photo was taken as I guess she wanted to show it to her friends and family.”
The name of whom Maxwell spoke to has been redacted in the published file. But Giffre said she was forced to have sex with the former prince, including at Maxwell’s London home in 2001. The same house was mentioned in a 2015 email.
Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied allegations of abuse and says he never met Giffre. CBC News reached out to his representatives for comment by email but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
“The email itself is incredibly important,” said Skye Roberts, Guiffre’s brother.
With his wife Amanda Roberts, the couple He told the BBC. News evening program After the email came to light.
“I think this is a moment of justice,” he said, “but we want to use this as a moment to let people believe the survivors.”
Verifying Virginia
Giffre’s Note, No one’s daughterIt was released in October 2025, several months after her death, and detailed her allegations of abuse against Epstein, Maxwell and Mountbatten-Windsor.
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on sex trafficking charges related to her ex-boyfriend, Epstein.
In the year In a separate email to Epstein in 2015, Maxwell wrote, “I also have to distance myself from you in that statement. And they need to say I didn’t know about the massage[with Andrew]at my house.”
Mountbatten-Windsor They spoke News evening In 2019 That night he didn’t remember taking a picture with Giffre, saying he was at Pizza Express, not Maxwell’s house.
“You can’t prove that this photo is fake or not because it’s a photo of a photo,” he said at the time. “So it’s very difficult to be able to confirm this, but I don’t remember that photograph ever being taken.”
In 2022 he Civil sexual assault charges settled For an undisclosed donation from Giuffre to her charity. It does not contain an admission of liability or an apology.
Despite being stripped of all royal titles and privileges, including stepping out of the Royal Lodge in 2025, the former prince’s relationship with the late Epstein continues to mentor the royal family.
At a public event in an Essex village on Thursday, a heckler asked King Charles about his younger brother Andrew’s relationship with Epstein.
“Charles, Charles. Are you going to pressure the police into not investigating Andrew?” The man shouted before being escorted out by police.
He knows what happened; I know what happened.’
Guiffre’s brother and sister-in-law expressed their wish for a police investigation.
In an interview with the BBC News eveningThey said they were proud of their late sister’s courage.
Amanda Roberts “You know, every time I hear what Andrew says, I always remember that quote from Virginia: ‘He knows what happened, and I know what happened.’ And I know only one of us is telling the truth, and I know it’s me,” Amanda Roberts said.
An email in the Jeffrey Epstein files appears to confirm that it was written by Ghislaine Maxwell, and a photograph of sexual abuse accuser Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with his arm around Virginia Jeffery is real.
Another Epstein survivor, Lisa Phillips, told CBC News host Artie Paul that she wants the former prince to come to America and testify before Congress.
“It’s important information to get out there that many of these powerful people — billionaires, elites, world leaders — are up to no good. So it needs to be exposed,” Phillips said.
“I’m not sure how far people can be prosecuted, but I believe Congress needs to do something, and we have to continue this fight just to get answers.”