Prince Andrew's name is included in unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents, including an account of a visit by him to the financier's private island.
Virginia Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York by Epstein and his former lover Ghislaine Maxwell as a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim.
And she sued the royal at Federal Court in New York in a case that Andrew settled out of court in 2022, paying an undisclosed sum to her which is thought to be in the millions. He did not admit liability and has denied her allegations.
Now, documents from a past libel lawsuit between Giuffre and Maxwell, a friend of Andrew's, have been unsealed and reveal more detail about some of the evidence surrounding Andrew.
Among them, Maxwell said in a deposition that Andrew had been to Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The filing read: "There were no girls on the island at all. No girls, no women, other than the staff who work at the house.
"Girls meaning, I assume you are asking underage, but there was nobody female outside of the cooks and the cleaners."
There were also allegations in a 2014 document against Andrew attributed to a woman named as Jane Doe 3.
She said she was "forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations," including "in London (at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment), in New York, and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls)."
Those claims appear to mirror Giuffre's allegations, after she said she was first forced to have sex with the prince at Maxwell's town house in London, as well as Epstein's house in New York and on his private island Little St James in the early 2000s.
In a previously released 2015 filing at a Florida court, Giuffre said: "The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands.
"I was around 18 at the time. Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn't really speak English."
The latest document says Jane Doe 3 was told to "give the Prince whatever he demanded" and Epstein "required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."
Maxwell disputed the suggestion she "at any time, at anyplace, in any moment ever asked Virginia Roberts or whatever she is called now to have sex with anybody."
Andrew has acknowledged that he visited Epstein's island and also said he visited Epstein in New York and has been to Maxwell's house in London.
BBC journalist Emily Maitlis asked the prince in 2019 whether he had sex with Giuffre or any woman trafficked by Epstein.
"No and without putting too fine a point on it, if you're a man it is a positive act to have sex with somebody," Andrew said.
"You have to take some sort of positive action and so therefore, if you try to forget, it's very difficult to try and forget a positive action and I do not remember anything.
"I can't, I've wracked my brain and thinking oh… when the first allegations, when the allegations came out originally I went, 'well that's a bit strange, I don't remember this' and then I've been through it and through it and through it over and over and over again and no, nothing. It just never happened."
The files also contained an email in which Maxwell talked about being under pressure from the media on Epstein: "Statements that don't address all just lead to more questions. What is my relationship to Clinton? Andrew? On and on."
And a 2015 email read: "You can issue a reward to any of Virginia's friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false."
Update 01/04/24, 05:32 a.m. ET: This article has been upated with further information.
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