Prince Andrew ought to share what he noticed of Epstein abuse, co-author tells BBC

Prince Andrew ought to share all the things he is aware of about convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, the co-writer of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir has instructed the BBC.

The guide, Nobody’s Girl, formally launched within the UK on Tuesday, offers extra particulars of Ms Giuffre’s allegations about Prince Andrew – which he has at all times denied.

Ahead of the discharge, co-author Amy Wallace instructed BBC Newsnight there was a interval when Prince Andrew “indicated he was willing to help investigators in the US” however he was “never available, for some reason”.

“That’s something he could still do,” Ms Wallace – who spent 4 years writing the guide with Ms Giuffre – added.

Ms Wallace mentioned: “He could say, as he has repeatedly, ‘I still deny that I was involved… however, I was in these houses and I was on that island and I was on the jet and I saw things, and I know how much these women have suffered and I would like to share what I saw’.”

Senior politicians – together with authorities minister Peter Kyle – additionally mentioned on Tuesday that Prince Andrew ought to converse to US authorities about Epstein’s crimes.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick mentioned Andrew ought to give proof to US authorities “about what he knew and what his involvement was” within the Epstein scandal.

Ms Giuffre – who took her personal life earlier this 12 months – says in her guide that she had intercourse with Prince Andrew on three separate events, which he denies.

She says the third event was on Epstein’s island as a part of what Ms Giuffre referred to as “an orgy” with Epstein and roughly eight different younger ladies.

Prince Andrew, who reached a monetary settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, introduced on Friday that he was voluntarily deciding to not use his titles together with the Duke of York, an honour acquired from his mom, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

He can also be giving up membership of the Order of the Garter – the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.

But there are nonetheless requires them to be formally eliminated.

Ms Wallace mentioned: “I can speak for Virginia; I know that she would view it as a victory that he was forced, by whatever means, to voluntarily give them up.”

She referred to as it a “symbolic gesture” which has made “modern history in terms of the royal era”, describing it as “a step in the right direction”.

“Virginia wanted all the men who she had been trafficked to, against her will, to be held to account, and this is just one of the men.

“Even although he [Andrew] continues to disclaim it, his life is being eroded due to his previous behaviour, correctly,” Ms Wallace mentioned.

Ms Wallace said the private jets used by Epstein “had been remodelled in an effort to afford many bedrooms – they have been designed as flying trafficking brokers, they have been there to make use of women in”.

She added: “Prince Andrew was on at the least a kind of jets that I do know of, if no more.

“He has to take sort of the measure of his own moral compass – he said in his settlement with Virginia that he now acknowledges the pain that these women and young girls had suffered. If you really feel it, do something about it.”

Speaking about Ms Giuffre, Ms Wallace mentioned: “I’m sad and I’m honoured to be able to speak at least a little bit on her behalf to stand up for her.

“She wrote this guide to attempt to assist different folks, to make the world a greater place.

“She deserves all credit for whatever role she played in forcing Prince Andrew to relinquish a few more of his titles but she deserves all credit even more than that for being brave enough to stand up to say ‘this isn’t right’.”

The memoir, which the BBC purchased from a guide retailer in central London days earlier than its official launch, paints an image of an internet of wealthy and highly effective folks abusing younger ladies.

At the centre of the abuse was Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s at present serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of sex-trafficking offences.

Ms Giuffre says that even many years later, she remembers how a lot she feared them each.

Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from an individual below the age of 18. He died in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking prices.

Cabinet minister Kyle mentioned that the victims should be put first and on the centre of additional discussions.

“I think anybody that has any information that could bring justice and information to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes should be fully engaging with any of the authorities that are seeking to deliver that information and justice for the victims,” Kyle instructed ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

“So of course, anybody, anywhere that has information that can deliver that justice should be sharing it openly.

“I imagine that Andrew, prior to now, has mentioned that he would co-operate, and I urge him to stay to his phrase on that.”

Conservative MP Jenrick also said Prince Andrew should “go away public life perpetually” and “lead a wholly non-public life”.

“He has to make his personal selections as to what he feels he ought to do, however I feel that he has behaved disgracefully,” Jenrick told the BBC.

“The public are sick of Prince Andrew and the harm that he is completed to the popularity of our Royal Family and this nation.”