Jeffrey Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre feared she is likely to be killed “like Diana” after having intercourse with Prince Andrew, an ex-boyfriend has revealed.
The “terrified” then-17-year-old Giuffre rang her boyfriend simply hours after she was allegedly trafficked to the British royal in London for the primary time in March 2001.
“I do not forget that name clearly. She was terrified. Her voice was shaking the entire time,” Tony Figueroa, 43, advised the Solar on Sunday from his residence in Atlanta, Ga.
Giuffre, who took her personal life in April at age 41, advised her former high-school sweetheart that she “didn’t wish to” sleep with Andrew however felt she had no alternative, he mentioned.
“I used to be additionally completely terrified one thing would occur to her. We talked in regards to the loss of life of [Princess] Diana. This man was so highly effective, he was actually a prince,” Figueroa mentioned.
Wild unsubstantiated conspiracy theories have been circulating on the time that Prince Harry and William’s mom Diana had been murdered in Paris in 1997 on the orders of the royal household.
Figueroa has now known as on disgraced Prince Andrew to simply accept that he performed a component in Giuffre’s suicide.
“These have been the occasions she was most scared,” the ex mentioned of Giuffre’s interactions with Andrew.
Andrew, the son of late Queen Elizabeth II, was compelled to drop his royal titles earlier this month within the wake of contemporary damaging revelations about his relationship with Epstein, a 66-year-old millionaire financier and convicted pedophile who killed himself in jail awaiting sex-trafficking expenses.
It was alleged that Andrew’s ties to Epstein continued years after he claimed to have lower himself off from the Wall Road powerhouse.
Andrew has at all times denied any allegations of wrongdoing, and even insisted that the notorious photograph of him along with his arm round Giuffre at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London residence could possibly be a pretend.
Figueroa poured scorn on Andrew’s claims and mentioned he was with Giuffre when she collected the print — taken on her Kodak FunSaver digital camera — from a one-hour kiosk close to their Palm Seaside, Fla., residence.
“I held the {photograph} in my arms. She was going via all the images, and she or he confirmed it to me. It was simply in there with the remainder,” he mentioned, including that Andrew’s royal exile was not a critical sufficient punishment for him.
“So he’s not a duke anymore? Wow, is that it? The place is she at proper now? Yeah, that’s not any form of … justice,” Figueroa mentioned.
“It’s simply slaps on the wrist.”
Figueroa and Giuffre have been relationship when {the teenager} started working as a masseuse for Epstein. She mentioned she was then trafficked for intercourse with highly effective males at Epstein’s behest.
She detailed the abuse in her memoir, “No one’s Woman,” which was launched posthumously final week.
Figueroa mentioned he was even taken by Giuffre to fulfill Epstein at his Palm Seaside mansion.
“She launched us. I used to be 18 years previous, and my perspective was that this man had every part. I used to be awestruck. I might get invited to speak to him in his workplace. He got here throughout similar to a standard dude,” he mentioned.
Quickly, Figueroa was on Epstein’s payroll himself, bringing ladies from his faculty to the intercourse offender’s residence in return for $200 a sufferer.
“I’ve nightmares. I’ve a son simply a few years youthful than I used to be when all this has occurred. He’s only a child,” he mentioned, including that Epstein was funding their whole life-style.
“I didn’t wish to consider something that might tarnish what I considered Virginia. Epstein was paying for our automobile, our house. Why would I query that?” he mentioned.
When Giuffre advised him the complete story of what was taking place, Figueroa urged her to depart, however she felt trapped and scared, he mentioned.
Epstein and Maxwell requested Giuffre to hold their baby whereas she and Figueroa have been making an attempt for a child of her personal, he mentioned.
At one level, Giuffre went to Thailand on Epstein’s orders to coach as a masseuse, and for some time, she and Figueroa spoke day by day.
“Then in the future she stopped answering my calls,” he mentioned, describing the time when Giuffre met her future husband, Robert Giuffre.
“I attempted to get in contact along with her. I requested somebody to move alongside a message, however I by no means heard again,” Figueroa mentioned.
Buckingham Palace didn’t reply instantly to Submit requests for remark. Prince Andrew couldn’t be reached for remark.
