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Virginia Giuffre claimed she was sex-trafficked to the Duke of York and “two of the world’s most respected politicians”, court documents show.
A US judge ordered hundreds of documents to be unsealed as part of Ms Giuffre’s previously settled civil claim against disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, which was filed in 2015.
In an email exchange with journalist Sharon Churcher in May 2011, Ms Giuffre spoke of her concerns about working with Vanity Fair after former US president Bill Clinton had allegedly “threatened them not to write sex-trafficking articles” about paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In a follow up email, Ms Churcher said it would be a “gamble” for Ms Giuffre to give the magazine a statement about claims she was “sex-trafficked to PA and other men including two of the world’s most respected politicians”.
The names of the two politicians in the email remain redacted.
In another email with the Epstein victim, Ms Churcher appeared to suggest to Ms Giuffre how to support to the FBI her allegation that she was “given” to Andrew.
The email from March 2011 read: “I am told the FBI have the flight logs. They also have the journal. It’s the document they confiscated from a houseman called Alfredo Rodriguez.
“Maybe Jason means that he wants to know how they corroborate the flight to London when you were ‘given’ to Andrew.
“Here’s how: you had photos from that trip – taken in Granada and London – and you recalled going to Paris as well and Morocco.
“I found that itinerary in the logs (you landed at Luton airport near London).
“Also Johanna had recalled being groped by Andrew one Easter…
