Woman claimed friend was made to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Epstein’s house
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailA woman has claimed that her friend was made to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York apartment. Lisa Phillips, one of the convicted paedophile’s survivors, told BBC Newsnight that her friend, who wished to remain anonymous, was directed to go into a room and have sex with the former prince in 2003. She said: “My girl friend, she was the reason why I started speaking out because I wanted to speak for her, because she didn’t want to.“In late 2003, she had been travelling a bit with Jeffrey to different countries, and she said she went to his Upper East Side house and former Prince Andrew was there. He made her, forced her, to go into a room to have sex with this man.” Ms Phillips claimed the woman had argued with Epstein and said “she didn’t want to”, but was “made” to enter the room.The former prince pictured with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Mandelson (US Department of Justice)The woman was allegedly “traumatised” by the situation and was left crying. Ms Phillips told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire that she later asked Epstein why he had made her friend have sex with the former prince. She said Epstein had smirked and responded: “I like to have things on people.” “He liked the fear in our eyes,” she said of Epstein’s abuses. “I think he liked that we were frozen and scared and didn’t know what to do, and I think he got off on that.”Ms Phillips added she had also met Mr Mountbatten-Windsor through Epstein, after spotting him in a “pool with a young blonde girl” during a trip to the infamous private island, Little St James. She said the UK police had not attempted to contact her for an interview, and said: “I think they should, yes. I think they would learn a lot by talking to the victims.”Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pictured following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office (Reuters)Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied any wrongdoing. The former Duke of York was separately arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in February over his connections with the paedophile and has been released under investigation. He spent around 11 hours in custody as searches were conducted at his home on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk and at his former home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire.The former prince features a number of times in the Epstein files, including images showing him bent over an unidentified female and lying across the laps of a number of women.He was also accused of having sex with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre three times, including when she was 17. In 2022, he paid Giuffre millions of pounds to settle a civil suit in the US, a woman he has claimed never to have met.Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has previously denied the allegations.
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