Prince Andrew’s sex accuser Virginia Giuffre could testify about him at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial

Prince Andrew’s sex accuser could testify about him at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, court documents have revealed.

The original photograph showing the Duke of York with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist at Maxwell’s home in 2001 has been requested. 

Ms Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley revealed in court documents that Maxwell’s team want access to original copies of various photographs, reported The Sun.

It is thought Ms Giuffre, 37, who currently lives in Australia with her husband and three children, could give evidence alongside victims Maria and Annie Farmer.

Ms McCawley said: ‘There’s simply no reason why if the Farmers and Ms Giuffre ultimately testify and these items prove to be relevant and admissable these items cannot be provided for inspection at trial.’ 

It comes after new criminal charges against Maxwell renewed pressure on Prince Andrew because they fall within the time frame that he was meeting paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The original photograph showing the Duke of York with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home in 2001 has been requested, court documents revealed 

Prince Andrew leaves his home in the grounds of Windsor Castle as his friend Ghislaine Maxwell was charged with more offences in the US

Until now, British socialite Maxwell has been charged with grooming underage girls for, and then abusing them with, Epstein between 1994 and 1997 – before the Duke of York knew the former Wall Street financier.

But a new indictment filed in New York this week, where Maxwell is locked up on remand awaiting trial, adds allegations relating to a victim who says she was abused between 2001 and 2004, when Andrew was in contact with Epstein.

The accusations do not relate to Andrew, who is not a party in the criminal proceedings or the subject of any criminal investigation, but US authorities want to speak to him as a potential witness. The duke said he first met Epstein in 1999 and saw him ‘once or twice a year’ before ending the friendship in 2010.

Maxwell was charged with two new counts of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor 

It is thought Ms Giuffre (pictured), 37, who currently lives in Australia with her husband and three children, could give evidence alongside victims Maria and Annie Farmer

According to a new indictment, Maxwell paid the girl hundreds of dollars to give Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages and even sent her lingerie 

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in jail in 2019

Lawyers for Epstein’s victims want the duke to end an 18-month deadlock and open up to the FBI about his friendship with the paedophile.

Lisa Bloom, who represents eight victims, said: ‘As this now covers the time period when [Andrew] was so friendly with Maxwell and Epstein, it is all the more imperative that he live up to his promises and speak to investigators immediately about everything he knows.’

The duke has been accused of sleeping with one of Epstein’s teenage ‘sex slaves’, Virginia Roberts, in 2001, allegations he has emphatically and continuously denied.

Andrew previously said: ‘At no stage during the limited time I spent with him [Epstein] did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction.’

The new accuser, referred to a Minor Victim-4, allegedly met Maxwell at Epstein’s Palm Beach home when she was around 14

The indictment also reveals that prosecutors intend to seize Maxwell’s assets if she is convicted – during a bail application she revealed that she and her husband Scott Borgerson are worth $22.5million. The couple are pictured in 2013

In an interview with the BBC in November 2019, he said he would cooperate with the FBI’s investigation into Epstein, who killed himself that August in jail. But the two sides have hit an impasse.

The duke’s lawyers, however, said reports of his refusal to cooperate were ‘inaccurate’ and he had offered to assist the US Department of Justice ‘on at least three occasions’ last year. Maxwell, 59, now faces seven charges relating to four women, rather than three, including two of sex trafficking.

The new indictment claims that from 2001 to 2004, Maxwell trafficked a girl who she first met when she was 14 and groomed her for abuse. She allegedly interacted with the girl on ‘multiple’ occasions even though she knew she was underage.

Maxwell has denied the previous allegations but has yet to respond to the additional charges. Her brother Ian Maxwell said the new indictment ‘does not strengthen the government’s case’.