Prince Andrew’s ex Lady Victoria Hervey calls Virginia Giuffre a ‘scam artist’ who ‘settled very fast’ as she shares another strangely edited version of THAT notorious photo with the Duke showing Ghislaine Maxwell alone
- Ex ‘It Girl’ Lady Victoria Hervey, 44, is the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol
- Said Virginia Roberts is a ‘scam artist’ who ‘settled very fast after truth came out’
- Also shared what appears to be an edited version of the notorious photo with Prince Andrew and Virginia removed to leave Ghislaine standing alone
- Seems she was suggesting this is what the original unedited image looked like
- Previously claimed notorious photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia is fake
- Claimed she ‘used images taken at Naomi Campbell’s 2001 boat party’ and ‘an Irish body double’ stood in for Prince Andrew to created the photo
Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey has blasted Virginia Giuffre as a ‘scam artist’ hours after it emerged Andrew and his accuser had reached out-of-court settlement in New York.
Taking to Instagram yesterday, the 44-year-old socialite and former ‘It Girl’, who is the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, posted: ‘She suddenly wanted to settle very fast when all the truth was coming out. Her lawyers must have panicked!’
Lady Victoria, who has sensationally claimed that the notorious photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia was faked, went on to share what appeared to be an edited version of the photo in which Ghislaine could be seen standing alone. She didn’t elaborate further but it seems she was suggesting this is what the original unedited photograph looked like.
The notorious snap with the Duke of York, which was reportedly taken in March 2001 at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, has been reproduced countless times around the world after Ms Giuffre – known before her marriage as Virginia Roberts – shared it with The Mail on Sunday in February 2011.
Lady Victoria has claimed in recent weeks it was pieced together using a photo taken at Naomi Campbell’s birthday party on board a yacht in St Tropez in May 2001, in which Virginia can be seen wearing the same white tank top with colourful patterned jeans.
Her comments came hours after Virginia claimed to have lost the original print of the famous photo of her and Prince Andrew, which could have furthered the disgraced royal’s argument that the image was doctored.
Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey has blasted Virginia Giuffre as a ‘scam artist’ hours after it emerged Andrew and his accuser had reached out-of-court settlement in a civil sex claim filed in New York
Elsewhere on her Instagram page, Victoria wrote: ‘The only thing she deserves is a prison cell full of rats.’
‘Time to investigate her and that missing Thai kid called JoJo.’
It’s unclear who Lady Victoria was referring to.
Meanwhile she cruelly posted a photograph of Virginia alongside the words ‘scam artist’, writing: ‘If I aged like that I would probably want to sue GOD.’
Lady Victoria has sensationally claimed that the notorious photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia was faked
Over the past few weeks, Lady Victoria has made a series of sensational claims about Virginia.
Earlier this month, she repeated claims that the infamous photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre was fake and even identified the set of images she says were used to create the doctored photo.
Lady Victoria does not have a copy of the exact Virginia photo from St Tropez which she claims was used to fake the Prince Andrew image, and it has never been seen publicly. However, she did share a bizarre painted reproduction of the alleged image to Instagram earlier this month.
She added to her baffling claims by saying that an ‘Irish guy’ who was dating one of Epstein’s victims in 2001 and also attended the boat party was used as a ‘body double’ for Prince Andrew in the ‘fake’ image.
The 44-year-old went on to share what appeared to be an edited version of the photo in which Ghislaine could be seen standing alone (pictured)
THE TIMELINE OF THE INFAMOUS VIRGINIA GIUFFRE AND PRINCE ANDREW PHOTOGRAPH
March 2001 – Infamous photograph of Virginia, Ghislaine and Prince Andrew is reportedly taken at Ghislaine’s home in London
May 2001 – Naomi Campbell hosted a boat party in the French Riviera with Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia, Ghislaine Maxwell all attending
February 2011 – Virginia is approached by the Mail On Sunday while she was living a quiet life with her family on Australia’s Central Coast.
She had been traced by journalist Sharon Churcher, who was investigating reports that the FBI was planning to reopen an investigation into the sexual exploitation of teenagers by Epstein.
At first she was reluctant to talk, not least because she harboured fears that Epstein might try to kill her.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday at the time, she produced the picture of Andrew from a white envelope containing a collection of photos chronicling her teenage years and travels with Epstein to New Mexico and Paris.
She explained that the picture with Andrew was taken at Ms Maxwell’s home after a visit to Tramp nightclub – a claim the Duke disputes.
She claimed the photograph was taken in March 2001, two months before the boat party in St Tropez.
She told Churcher at the meeting that she had sex with Andrew three times while a teenager, but for legal reasons the MoS could not publish her claims, which the Duke denies.
The photographs are published by the Mail On Sunday
November 2019 – Andrew hinted that the hand around her waist may not be his.
Prince Andrew told BBC Newsnight: ‘You can’t prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.’
‘It’s very difficult to be able to prove it but I don’t remember that photograph being taken…
‘That’s me but whether that’s my hand…I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.’
December 2019 – Virginia told BBC Panorama that the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011
February 2022 – Lady Victoria Hervey says victims of Epstein have told her the image was photoshopped by Virginia and Maria Farmer
In an exclusive interview earlier this month, Lady Victoria told FEMAIL she has spoken to several victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who said they believe the image was edited by Virginia and Maria Farmer, another victim who worked as an ‘artist-in-residence’ for Epstein.
She said other victims had ‘seen’ Virginia and Maria photoshopping the image, before being ‘bullied and silenced’ by Virginia.
Lady Victoria said the pair had been in ‘cahoots’ for 20 years because they ‘wanted to bring down the monarchy using Prince Andrew’, adding that this was Epstein’s intention too.
‘I know this sounds pretty wild – Epstein told one survivor that he basically wanted to bring down the monarchy,’ she said.
Lady Victoria Hervey said that an image taken at Naomi Campbell’s birthday in 2001 in St Tropez was used to ‘fake’ the Prince Andrew photo, pointing out that Virginia is wearing the same outfit in both (pictured)
Lady Victoria claimed a photograph of this unnamed man, who she said is Irish and was dating one of Epstein’s victims at the time, was used as a body double for Prince Andrew
Lady Victoria claimed the image of Virginia was taken at the birthday boat party. The image has never been seen publicly but another of Epstein’s victims has allegedly painted an image of what the original photograph would have looked like (pictured)
Meanwhile the socialite said she had passed on all of her findings to a member of Prince Andrew’s legal team, adding: ‘She’s got everything, she’s got it all. She’s got recordings and screenshots and everything.’
HOW LADY VICTORIA HERVEY CLAIMED VIRGINIA AND MARIA PHOTOSHOPPED THE INFAMOUS IMAGE
Lady Victoria claimed the photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia was actually four images edited together by Virginia and Maria Farmer.
She said ‘four or five’ victims watched as the two women edited the photograph
Here FEMAIL breaks down her accusations…
BACKGROUND
Lady Victoria claimed the image was taken of an empty hallway at the Belgravia home of Andrew’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell.
VIRGINIA GIUFFRE
Lady Victoria claimed the image of Virginia was taken at Naomi Campbell’s 2001 birthday boat party.
She said the original photograph showed Virginia leaning against the side of the boat while holding her coat in her right hand.
She also pointed to evidence of this as Virginia’s left hand as ‘looking weird’ in the photograph.
BOAT PARTY – Images show Virginia wearing an off-white, strappy top which exposed her midriff and distinctive, multi-coloured trousers.
THE PHOTO – The photograph shows Virginia wearing the same outfit, with her arm around Prince Andrew.
Lady Victoria said the image has been edited so that Prince Andrew is in front of Virginia’s arm holding her coat.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL
BOAT PARTY – Images show Ghislaine wearing a baby blue knitted jumper with short sleeves and a high roll neck, a sequin skirt.
THE PHOTO – The photograph show Ghislaine wearing a white knitted jumper vest with no sleeves with dark bottoms on.
PRINCE ANDREW
Lady Virginia claimed an ‘Irish body double’ was used in place of Prince Andrew in the photograph.
She said the man was in a relationship with one of Epstein’s victims at the time, and he was at the boat party as well.
However she said she does not know if the image was taken at the boat party, or whether the unnamed Irish man was aware of the plot by Virginia.
Having edited the man’s body into the photograph with Virginia and Ghislaine, she then said Maria and Virginia had edited Prince Andrew’s face onto his.
She pointed to the man’s hands as evidence it was not Prince Andrew.
Virginia claims she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell and forced to have sex with the royal on three occasions when she was 17, claims Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
Virginia has previously described in legal documents how she attended the party in St Tropez to celebrate Miss Campbell’s 31st birthday in 2001.
Images from the party show Virginia in an off-white, strappy top which exposed her midriff and distinctive, multi-coloured trousers.
Meanwhile photographs also show Ghislaine from the night of the party wearing a blue knitted jumper with a knitted white and sequin skirt.
Lady Victoria said a photograph taken at the party shows Virginia leaning against the boat and holding her coat in one hand, and this is the image that was used to fake the photo with Prince Andrew.
She believes one of the clearest signs that it has been edited is Virginia’s hand, and she said it looks slightly odd because she was actually leaning against the side of the boat in the original photo
However, she does not have a copy of the alleged picture and it has never been seen publicly.
However, Lady Victoria went on to claim that an Epstein victim who ‘saw’ the alleged photo and witnessed it being edited by Virginia and Maria has recreated it.
She said: ‘One of the girls is an artist and she drew a painting of the original photograph of Virginia on the boat holding her coat.’
It was this image that Lady Victoria shared to social media earlier this month, causing a stir with her bizarre claims.
Another victim of Epstein, Maria was the ‘artist-in-residence’ and receptionist at Epstein’s New York office in 1995 after graduating from the New York Academy of Arts and handpicked by Epstein to work for him, who was also a college donor.
She was then abused by Epstein and Maxwell on his mentor, billionaire Les Wexner’s estate in Ohio, and also ogled at by President Donald Trump, whom she claims visited Epstein at least three times while she worked there.
Lady Victoria said she was told be Epstein survivors that Ghislaine had taught Maria and Virginia how to photoshop images.
She said the victims then saw the duo editing the infamous photograph of the Duke with Virginia using images from the birthday party.
She said: ‘The girls were there, I guess they all lived together you know.
‘Everyone was aware – four or five of the survivors know that they [Maria and Virginia] did it and saw it.’
She said while the duo took a photograph of Ghislaine’s empty home, editing in the image of Victoria holding her coat on the boat.
Lady Victoria claimed they then edited Ghislaine into the image, altering her outfit by changing the colour of her top and removing the sleeves.
Meanwhile she said Maria and Virginia used the body of an Irish man who had been dating one of the other victims at the time to act as a double for Prince Andrew.
Virginia has previously described in legal documents how she attended the party in St Tropez to celebrate Miss Campbell’s 31st birthday in 2001 (pictured, the party)
Meanwhile Lady Victoria said the women had edited Ghislaine’s outfit to change the colour of her knitted top and to remove the sleeves (pictured, her outfit the night of the party)
Lady Victoria posted the accusations on her Instagram stories earlier this month and suggested the image actually showed an Irish man as a body double for Prince Andrew
She said the unnamed Irish man was in a relationship with one of Epstein’s victims at the time, and he was at the boat party as well.
However she said she does not know if the image was taken at the boat party, or whether the unnamed Irish man was aware of the plot by Virginia.
Andrew’s civil case: What was alleged and what has been agreed?
The Duke of York and Virginia Giuffre have reached an out-of-court settlement in the civil case filed in the US. Here is what was alleged against Andrew and what has happened up until this point:
– Who is Virginia Giuffre? Virginia Giuffre, also known as Virginia Roberts, alleges she was trafficked by disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to be molested by financier Jeffrey Epstein and his friends.
– What case did Andrew face? Mrs Giuffre brought a case of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against the duke. It was claimed she was trafficked by convicted sex offender Epstein and others to Andrew, who is alleged to have sexually abused her when she was under the age of 18.
– How many allegations did the duke face? Court documents have referenced three separate occasions in which Mrs Giuffre accuses him of sexual misconduct.
– Where is the alleged sexual abuse said to have taken place? Mrs Giuffre claimed Andrew had sex with her against her will at Maxwell’s London home. She also alleged the royal forced her to engage in sex acts against her will at Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The duke is also alleged to have sexually abused Mrs Giuffre on another occasion during a visit to Epstein’s private island, Little St James.
– What reasons has Andrew previously given for the case against him to be dismissed? In January, the duke submitted 11 reasons why the case should be dismissed, including that Mrs Giuffre’s claims are ‘barred by the doctrine of consent’ and by ‘her own wrongful conduct’.
– Will Andrew have to face a civil trial? Now the case has settled out of court, the duke will not have to face a trial.
– What happens now a settlement has been reached? The parties have said they will file a ‘stipulation of dismissal’ within 30 days, meaning they will file a notice to discontinue the case now it has been settled. Before the stipulation is filed, the parties have asked for all deadlines and court action to be suspended.
– What do we know about the details of the agreement reached between Andrew and Mrs Giuffre? The sum of the settlement has not been disclosed but the duke will make a ‘substantial donation’ to Mrs Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights. He has also pledged to ‘demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein’ by supporting the ‘fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims.’
– Will the substantial charity donation be made from Andrew’s own private money? Representatives of the duke declined to comment on the source of funds for the donation.
– What have both sides said about the settlement?Andrew’s representatives said they would not be commenting further than what was said in the court documents. David Boies, the lawyer acting on behalf of Mrs Giuffre, said: ‘I believe this event speaks for itself.’
Having edited the man’s body into the photograph with Virginia and Ghislaine, she then said Maria and Virginia had edited Prince Andrew’s face onto his.
She pointed to both Virginia and Andrew’s hands as evidence the image had been doctored, adding: ‘Her hand and his hand looked so freaking weird.’
She continued: ‘They learnt how to do all of this editing by Ghislaine – I don’t know if Ghislaine and Jeffrey were in on the fake photo.’
Meanwhile Lady Victoria also said there had ‘never been a physical photo of that shot, it’s all digital’ and accused Virginia of telling ‘different stories’ about whether there was a copy.
When asked about why Virginia and Maria might have been motivated to edit the photograph, Lady Victoria referred to another message from a survivor.
She said: ‘Another girl sent [me] this: “I’m the one that saw Virginia had the photo of Andrew photoshopped by Maria.
‘They were conspiring to bring the monarchy down using Andrew.”
Lady Victoria did not reveal which year the photograph had been edited in.
It was reported last night the Queen is to foot part of the bill for Prince Andrew’s sexual abuse lawsuit, which could end up costing some £12 million.
The humiliated Duke of York’s mother is said to be set to help fund the settlement, which was agreed between lawyers in a sensational development on Tuesday.
The move is understood to be a bid to draw a line under the scandal before her much-anticipated Jubilee celebrations latter this year, which he will apparently be banned from attending.
It comes just weeks after Andrew vowed to contest Virginia Roberts’ rape claims at a public trial. Miss Roberts had alleged she was forced to have sex with the duke three times when she was 17 under the orders of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Only last month, she was given the go-ahead to sue Andrew, 61, for unspecified damages in a New York civil court.
But despite vowing to fight the allegations and repeatedly protesting his innocence, the prince yesterday agreed to pay a huge sum to settle the case before it ever reaches a jury.
It comes as reports suggest the Queen herself will provide money to pay for the settlement, according to the Telegraph.
The paper suggests the total amount that the victim and her charity will receive will actually exceed £12m, with the funds coming from her private Duchy of Lancaster estate, which recently increased by £1.5m to more than £23m.
Although the agreement contained no formal admission of liability from Andrew, or an apology, it said he now accepted Miss Roberts was a ‘victim of abuse’ and that he regretted his association with Epstein, the disgraced financier who trafficked countless young girls.
It also said the prince accepted that Miss Roberts, now 38, had been subjected to ‘unfair public attacks’ and that he had never intended to ‘malign her character’.
This is despite a string of recent aggressive accusations made by his legal team that included referencing a story which branded Miss Roberts a ‘money-hungry sex kitten’.
It is understood that Andrew will now hand a large sum of cash to Miss Roberts and he has also agreed to make a ‘substantial donation’ to her charity in support of victims’ rights.
Although the terms of the deal remain a closely guarded secret, sources indicated the settlement itself could cost Andrew as much as £7.5 million ($10 million) – with several million pounds worth of legal fees taking the potential cost of the case to the prince to around the £10 million mark.
Miss Roberts – who brought the lawsuit under her married name Virginia Giuffre – launched her legal action against Andrew in August, seeking unspecified damages for battery, including rape, and the infliction of emotional distress. The Daily Mail can reveal that negotiations on a settlement have secretly been taking place since last month when a US judge refused to throw Miss Roberts’ case out.
But her legal team were said to be surprised at the suddenness of Andrew’s capitulation, with things taking a dramatic turn in recent days.
The prince, who was stripped of his remaining patronages earlier this year, has faced pressure from senior royals to resolve the lawsuit ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee later this year.
And while last night Buckingham Palace was said to be breathing a sigh of relief that the case will not go to trial, senior royal sources indicated there was now no way back to public life for the disgraced duke.
One said: ‘Regardless of the outcome, he has ruled himself out of any public role by virtue of his appalling lack of judgment and poor choice of friends and associates.’
Lady Victoria Hervey and Prince Andrew pictured in 2002 at a party in London to celebrate Chinese New Year
Lady Victoria Hervey and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in Hollywood on February 25, 2004
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