From 2022
Virginia Giuffre told me she'd slept with Prince Andrew just days after that trip to London with Jeffrey Epstein: Key witness at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial bravely waives her anonymity and makes a sensational new claim
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Today Carolyn is a life-worn, 35-year-old married mother of five children aged between five and 17, still living near Palm Beach, where Epstein had a sprawling, £13 million mansion.
She has no issue with Andrew – she’s never met him – nor is she a huge fan of Virginia. She hasn’t seen her former friend in years, and it probably wouldn’t be a joyful reunion if they did meet.
Carolyn holds Virginia responsible for delivering her into Epstein and Maxwell’s clutches in the first place. Giuffre has admitted that she actively recruited young girls for Epstein, something she says she bitterly regrets.
Plus, it should be noted, the jury in New York believed Carolyn’s testimony wholeheartedly. Maxwell was convicted unanimously on five of the six charges against her. Four of the guilty verdicts were underpinned by allegations made by Carolyn. The most serious of them, of child sex trafficking a minor, applied to Carolyn alone, and carries a maximum 40-year jail term.
A juror this week broke cover to reveal how members had been split initially as they deliberated over some of the charges, but none of them ever doubted Carolyn.
Today, Carolyn seems older than her 35 years. The clear brown eyes of the 16-year-old Carolyn – the age when she was a regular visitor to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion – are the same, but smiles are a rare commodity nowadays.
A striking, 5ft 9ins, larger-than-life character, with a mane of dyed red curls, and a penchant for chunky jewellery, you sense the ‘tough cookie’ exterior is a shield she’s worn for a very long time.
There is a brief thaw when she hears how the jury trusted her every word: ‘I’m glad they believed me, and that it was wrong what Maxwell did to me. I had a voice and it was heard.
‘It’s so important because I have my own daughters now. Every day I think about whether there’s someone who’s going to put them in the situation I was in. I live with fear for my girls.’
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10380333/Key-witness-Ghislaine-Maxwells-trial-waives-anonymity-makes-sensational-new-claim.html