Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre is back home in Australia after filming an interview set to challenge Prince Andrew’s denials they ever had sex.
Ms Giuffre was seen running errands with her husband Robert in the far north Queensland city of Cairns on Tuesday, ahead of her interview being screened on the BBC.
The 35-year-old, who says she had intercourse several times with the Duke as a teenager, spoke to Panorama before the Royal appeared on Saturday’s Newsnight.
She is believed to have claimed during the interview that the prince slept with her when she was 17-year-old Virginia Roberts.
On Tuesday Ms Giuffre was going about her business as usual, walking hand-in-hand with her devoted husband of 16 years in a confident show of solidarity.
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre stepped out in public in Cairns on Tuesday after filming an interview set to challenge Prince Andrew’s denials they ever had sex
Ms Giuffre was seen running errands with her husband Robert in far north Queensland city of Cairns ahead of her interview being screened on the BBC
Ms Giuffre is believed to have claimed during a Panorama interview that Prince Andrew (pictured) slept with her when she was 17-year-old Virginia Roberts
Ms Giuffre claims that billionaire paedophile Epstein trafficked her to London from the US when she was a teenager.
And Mirror Online reports she is furious her interview – which was filmed three weeks before the Duke’s Newsnight chat aired – has not screened yet.
A source close to Ms Giuffre told the website she ‘made no bones about her thoughts on the Duke’s denial’ during her sit-down with Panorama, in which she is said to demand he comes clean.
Ms Giuffre and her husband now live in a peaceful gated community near Cairns with their three school-age children.
They met in Thailand in 2003, fell in love and married after dating for just weeks when she was 19.
Mr Giuffre, who grew up near Sydney, took the family home to Australia to settle in Queensland.
A source close to Ms Giuffre told the website she ‘made no bones’ about the Duke’s denial during her sit-down with Panorama, in which she is said to demand he comes clean
The Giuffres (left and right on Tuesday) now live in a peaceful gated community near Cairns with their three school-age children. They met in Thailand in 2003, fell in love and married after dating for just weeks when she was 19
The couple bought their neat four-bedroom home for $550,000 in June 2017. The compound it sits in is covered by security cameras and floodlights and dotted with palm trees.
Last year Ms Giuffre told Woman’s Day magazine she was happy in her new surroundings and described Robert as ‘very protective of me’. She is quiet, polite and well-liked in her local community.
Ms Giuffre does the school run with her children, buys the family’s groceries at a nearby shopping centre and is sometimes seen at a local hotel where she sometimes plays poker machines.
‘They’re both lovely, especially her,’ a bartender at that tavern told Woman’s Day. ‘I can’t believe she’s involved with all that. It just goes to show that you never know anything about people.’
Ms Giuffre’s return to Cairns comes amid speculation that her interview was deliberately held back so that it didn’t jeopardise 59-year-old Prince Andrew’s interview.
Last year Ms Giuffre told Woman’s Day magazine she was happy in her new surroundings and described her husband Robert as ‘very protective of me’. She is quiet, polite and well-liked in her local community
Ms Giuffre claims she had sex with Prince Andrew after billionaire Jeffrey Epstein (right) allegedly trafficked her to the UK. She says a picture was taken of her with Andrew (left) in early 2001. The prince denies all knowledge of having met Ms Giuffre
A source said her legal team had no idea why the Panorama interview had not aired.
They claimed that every broadcaster to have interviewed Ms Giuffre had aired the results ‘almost immediately’ but the BBC had not.
But BBC sources said that the interview formed part of a larger investigation and it was for that reason that it had not yet aired.
Prince Andrew (pictured during his interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight) is facing a furious backlash over his relationship with Epstein
A lawyer for three victims of Epstein has demanded the Duke testify to the FBI under oath.
Prince Andrew denied any knowledge of the financier’s perversions during his conversation with Emily Maitlis.
Lawyer Gloria Allred said that she could not see how Andrew would not have known that Epstein was exploiting underage minors.
Spencer Kulvin, who also represents a victim of Epstein, said that Prince Andrew’s decision to go on camera ‘shocked’ him because anything he said could be utilised in a cross-examination.
He added that he doesn’t think there’s any way a man who visited all of Epstein’s homes could be unaware of girls being brought in and out.
Ms Giuffre (pictured) claims that billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to London from the US