NEW EVIDENCE
Witness who ‘saw Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts in Tramp nightclub in 2001’ comes forward to Epstein victims lawyer
A BOMBSHELL new witness has come forward saying she saw Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts together in Tramp nightclub in 2001, according to a lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
Ms Roberts claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York after spending the night with him at the London nightclub in March 2001.
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Prince Andrew denies the allegations and says he has 'no recollection' of ever meeting Ms Roberts.
But Lisa Bloom, a civil rights lawyer representing other sex abuse victims of disgraced US billionaire Jeffrey Esptein, has said a witness has come forward to her backing up Ms Roberts' version of events.
She said: "I'm representing a witness that says she was there that night in 2001.
"She saw Prince Andrew with Virginia, she remembers it vividly because she was told this is a member of the Royal Family and that was a very big thing to her.
"She was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him.
"I'm going to take her to the FBI, they can investigate her claims and I call on other witnesses to come forward."
Ms Roberts says she was groomed into becoming a 'sex slave' by Jeffrey Epstein and his ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell after being invited to a job interview for a masseuse role shortly after her 17th birthday.
She claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands in 2001.
The 35-year-old told BBC Panorama she was flown by private jet to London where she stayed at the Belgravia home of Ms Maxwell.
It was there she says an infamous picture of Prince Andrew with his arm around her was taken.
The Duke of York claims he was at Pizza Express in Woking taking daughter Beatrice to a party on the night in question and has suggested the picture may have been faked.
It didn’t last very long. The whole thing, procedure - it was disgusting.
Virginia Roberts
The pair allegedly danced and drank together inside the nightclub before Ms Roberts claims she was told she would be having sex with the Duke of York when they returned to Ms Maxwell's home.
She said: "Ghislaine tells me I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that made me sick.
"I just didn't expect it from royalty. I didn't expect it from someone people look up to and admire.
"It didn’t last very long. The whole thing, procedure - it was disgusting. He got up and said thanks and walked out and I sat there in bed, I felt horrified and ashamed and dirty.
"The next day Ghislaine pats me on the back and said 'you made him really happy'.
"I had just been abused by a member of the Royal Family.
"I hadn't been chained to a kitchen sink but these powerful people were my chains."
The prince has also claimed Ms Roberts' account that he sweated heavily could not have been true as a medical condition he had at the time meant he couldn't sweat, after suffering an overdose of adrenalin during the Falklands War.
Repeating her claims last night, Ms Roberts said: "He asked me to dance. He is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life.
"It was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere.
"I was just like grossed out from it, but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me."
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Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008 and was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of sex trafficking. He was found dead in his New York prison cell in August as he awaited trial.
Virginia initially made her claims against Andrew in court papers in Florida but they were struck from US civil court records.
Buckingham Palace has branded the allegations "false and without any foundation", stating: "Any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors" by the duke was "categorically untrue".
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