The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in an interview to be broadcast on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Saturday.
He spoke to BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
Maitlis claimed on Twitter that it was a “no holds barred interview”
The duke faces serious claims over his ties to the 66-year-old US financier, who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Saturday 9pm. BBC2. No holds barred interview – no questions vetted- with Prince Andrew. https://t.co/erRkhJ1hTd
— emily m (@maitlis) November 15, 2019
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts – now Virginia Giuffre – said she was forced to have sex with the duke three times between 1999 and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein. She was underage according to Florida state law.
The details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were “immaterial and impertinent” to the “central claim”.
Separately, a woman called Johanna Sjoberg alleged that the duke touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001 in documents from a defamation case.
In 2015 Buckingham Palace issued a strongly worded statement said that “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors” by the duke was “categorically untrue”.
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