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Prince Andrew was publicly humiliated this week when his alleged obsession with the doll was revealed to the world in undisclosed documents relating to the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew's alleged doll fetish
Andrew's name appeared repeatedly in unsealed documents that listed more than 150 names of Epstein's associates. In one document, Epstein's accuser, Joanna Sjoberg, spoke of an alleged encounter with Epstein years earlier with fellow “victim” Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
“At some point, Ghislaine asked me to come upstairs, so we went into a cupboard and took out the doll, which was the caricature of Prince Andrew, and dropped it,” she said. “There was a little tag on the doll that said ‘Prince Andrew,’ and that’s when I knew who he was.”
“He looked like him,” Sjoberg continued. So I took it down and presented it to him. Which was a great joke, because apparently it was a production of a BBC programme. They decided to take a photo with her, as Virginia and Andrew sat on the sofa. “They put the doll on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the doll’s hand on Virginia’s chest, and Andrew put his hand on my breasts, and they took a picture.”
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Sjoberg's history with Epstein
The Daily Mail reported that Sjoberg previously testified that she was a 20-year-old student at Palm Beach Atlantic University when Maxwell recruited and hired her to be Epstein's personal assistant in 2001. Sjoberg claimed she was immediately forced to perform sexual acts, and that she knew Giuffre would She's been underage since I met her.
In other unsealed documents, Giuffre's legal team said: “Joanna asserts that she knew Virginia was a minor when she met her on a trip to New York with Giuffre in 2001 because Virginia was unable to get into the casino. Joanna later asked her and Virginia said 'she was a minor'.” 17 years old.
“Joanna testified that Virginia looked young,” they continued. Joanna added: “At the time I had the impression that she didn't have a family or that she was estranged from her family. And it seemed to me, you know, that they had sort of adopted her, not as a child, but that they would take care of her.”
“Joanna confirmed that she saw Virginia when she was 17 years old at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in New York with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell,” the documents read. “Joanna also testified that Prince Andrew sat with Virginia and Joanna and posed for a photo with a doll in his photo that had her hand and Prince Andrew's hand on their breasts.”
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Andrew has not yet been charged
At the time of this writing, Andrew has never been charged in connection with Epstein's crimes, although he resigned from his public roles in May 2020. Epstein allegedly committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on various sex crime charges, and Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence For her role in his crimes.
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