Epstein files latest: King has ‘profound concern’ over Andrew claims – and palace ‘ready to support’ police

Andrew accuser’s family says Maxwell was ‘monster’ and ‘more vicious and cruel than Epstein’

We reported earlier that Ghislaine Maxwell’s behind-closed-doors questioning is taking place at the US Congress this afternoon (see 13.47 post).

A letter by the family of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s lead accuser Virginia Giuffre, which was entered into record at the hearing, has now been revealed.

Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, address Maxwell directly and claim she was a “central, deliberate actor in a system built to find children, isolate them, groom them, and deliver them to abuse”.

The letter continues: 

“As Virginia said, ‘Ghislaine was a monster; she was often more vicious and cruel than Epstein. Put it this way: Epstein was Pinocchio, and she was Geppetto. She was the guy controlling.'”

The most recent release of Epstein files shows there are “significant inconsistencies” between Maxwell’s record and her prior sworn testimony, the letter argues.

It concludes:

“We’ll end this letter with Virginia’s last wishes for you: ‘Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a jail cell. Trapped in a cage forever just like you trapped your victims.'”

Giuffre had filed a civil defamation claim against Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and long-time associate, in 2015 and settled two years later.

Maxwell was found guilty in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Andrew paid a financial settlement to Giuffre in 2022 after she alleged that she had been trafficked by Epstein and that Andrew had sex with her when she was 17.

But the former duke has always vigorously denied any accusations against him in relation to Epstein and says he never met Giuffre, who took her own life last April.