Ghislaine Maxwell's tribute to ‘dear friend’ Prince Andrew in bombshell prison interview
msn.comUS prison of her “dear friend” Prince Andrew, and told of how she “feels bad” for how he has been treated. Maxwell’s comments, published in the Mail on Sunday in her first lengthy interview since her December conviction on sex trafficking charges, will heap fresh embarrassment on the Duke of York, who has sought to distance himself from the disgraced socialite. “I feel so bad for him,” said Maxwell, who has known the Duke since she was a student at Oxford University in the 1980s. “Yes, I follow what is happening to him.
He is paying such a price for the association (with Jeffrey Epstein). I consider him a dear friend. . . I care about him,” the 60-year-old said in an interview with Israeli-American documentary filmmaker Daphne Barak, who met Maxwell in the 1990s.
The interview, which took place in Tallahassee FCI, an all-female prison in Florida’s capital, was first published in the Mail on Sunday and is set to be broadcast on Monday on ITV.
Questioned on the denial by the Duke's lawyers in court filings that they were close friends, Maxwell, 60, said: “I accept that this friendship could not survive my conviction. ”Prince Andrew, 62, was stripped of his military titles and royal patronages as he fought allegations that he abused Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, as a teenager.
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