What was said about Prince Andrew in unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents?
Court documents relating to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein have been published and mention the disgraced Duke of York.
One of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex slaves, known as Jane Doe 3, claimed she was ordered to have intercourse with Prince Andrew during an orgy on Epstein's private island, Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands. A 2014 court filing alleges Jane Doe 3 was "forced to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations".
She alleged these happened "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)".
The newly unsealed documents claim Epstein told Jane Doe 3 to "give the Prince whatever he demanded". Jane Doe 3 claimed Ghislaine Maxwell "facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse by acting as a 'madame' for Epstein'".
Virginia Giuffre gave written evidence to a Florida court in 2015 which said: "The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
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She added Epstein had "laughed about the fact they couldn’t really communicate, saying that they are the 'easiest' girls to get along with".
US Judge Loretta Preska ruled in December that paperwork naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.
Another woman claimed Prince Andrew touched her breast inside Epstein's Manhattan apartment, the newly released court documents show.
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In one document, a woman named Johanna Sjoberg alleged the Duke of York touched her breast while sitting on a sofa inside Epstein's apartment in 2001.
The allegation was made by Ms Sjoberg in testimony given in May 2016. Although Ms Sjoberg never brought any civil claim against Andrew.
Prince Andrew has strenuously denied all allegations. Buckingham Palace previously said the allegations are "categorically untrue".
The documents form part of a 2015 US defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite who supplied Epstein with underage girls.
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 while being held at a correctional centre in New York ahead of a planned trial on trafficking charges.
Ms Sjoberg testified Maxwell called her to an upstairs closet where they pulled out a puppet of Prince Andrew made for a BBC programme.
She said: "It looked like him... And she brought it down and presented it to him; and that was a great joke, because apparently it was a production from a show on BBC.
"And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch.
"They put the puppet on Virginia's lap, and I sat on Andrew's lap, and they put the puppet's hand on Virginia's breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo."
It is understood Prince Andrew has strenuously denied all allegations.
The court documents also show that during Maxwell's videotaped deposition in 2016 she claimed she could only recall the Duke of York visiting Epstein's island once.
Accusers have said the financier's private island, Little St James, was the centre of an international sex trafficking ring.
Asked whether any girls under the age of 18 were present on the island when Prince Andrew was reported to have been there, Maxwell replied: "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."
Prince Andrew withdrew from public life amid the furore over his friendship with Epstein and paid millions to settle a US civil sexual assault case to Ms Giuffre, a woman he claimed never to have met. The settlement did not include any admission of liability.
The Duke was cast out of the working monarchy and no longer uses his HRH title after Ms Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. Andrew has strenuously denied the claims.