METRO
Ghislaine Maxwell was ordered to search for any messages with Prince Andrew’s name along with the words ‘sex toy’, documents have revealed.
Andrew, the banished second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has drawn global infamy since he was accused of rape and sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre in 2021.
Adding to this, he was among those named in recently unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and registered sex offender.
These documents revealed how Maxwell’s lawyers were asked by a US court to dig through her electronic devices for any mention of the duke and a list of hundreds of words, according to the Mail on Sunday.
These included: ‘Prince’, ‘Andrew’, ‘Duke’, York’, ‘Royal’, ‘underage’, ‘massage’, ‘sex’, ‘slave’, ‘nipple’, ‘dildo’ and ‘erotic’.
Within the sordid details of Epstein’s affairs and the wealthy men within his circles, the documents also claimed the prince took part in an orgy with underage girls on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
The 130 papers were part of a 2015 defamation case filed by Giuffre against Maxwell, a longtime Epstein associate convicted in 2021 of conspiring with him to recruit, groom and abuse underage girls.
A source close to Andrew told the Mail on Sunday that the shamed royal ‘doesn’t have the emotional bandwidth’ to deal with the fallout.
‘He has locked himself away in a room and has no idea how to respond,’ the insider claimed. ‘He’s devastated.’
The newspaper reported that one of Giuffre’s lawyers, Meredith Schultz, asked for Maxwell’s phones, tablets, computers and iCloud account to be searched for mentions of 368 words as part of the defamation suit.
‘Masturbate’, ‘servitude’, ‘juvenile’, ‘schoolgirl’, and ‘paedophile’ were also part of words lawyers searched in the documents.
Maxwell’s lawyer Laura Menninger objected to the ‘vast number’ of words needing to be searched, stressing at the time it would take ‘more than a week’.
To comply with the court order, 110 words were searched for (including Andrew’s name) with 9,000 documents and correspondence being brought up.
Whether Andrew was explicitly named in this search is unknown.
Giuffre filed a separate, since-settled lawsuit claiming Andrew raped her when she was a teenage victim of Epstein in 2001.
In her 2021 lawsuit, Giuffre claimed Andrew sexually abused her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and on his private island, Little St James, in the US Virgin Islands.
She also alleged Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell forced Giuffre to have sexual relations with the prince at the British socialite’s home in London. Such acts caused her severe and long-lasting damage, the suit said.
