By NY Daily News. Prince Andrew used a puppet of himself, given to him by Jeffrey Epstein, as a pretext to grope two young women, reported the Mirror.

Writer Virginia Giuffre and Johanna Sjoberg, a former personal assistant for the British royal, said they were both previously fondled by the 60-year-old Duke of York in 2001 as socialite Ghislane Maxwell allegedly looked on and, in one case, snapped a photo of Sjoberg with Andrew.

“I sat on Andrew’s lap,” testified Sjoberg in a 2016 deposition, according to the Mirror. “They took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”

The puppet, which was made for the U.K. program “Spitting Image,” was also allegedly a prop in the sexual touching of Giuffre. (Read more from “Accuser: Prince Andrew Groped Epstein Victims With Puppet” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Haunting 40th Birthday Present to Jeffrey Epstein

By Vanity Fair. Jeffrey Epstein’s 40th birthday party was not what Christopher Mason expected.

The British journalist arrived at Epstein’s townhouse that evening, in what would have been January 1993, not as a guest, but as a sort of paid entertainment. As a hobby, Mason wrote and performed satirical songs—musical roasts that he custom-created for his subjects. Maxwell, who seemed to be dating Epstein at the time, had commissioned the Cambridge-educated writer to craft this kind of personalized musical toast for Epstein.

“Ghislaine was pretty specific and controlling,” Mason told Vanity Fair this week. “When I do those songs—and I still occasionally do them—my preferred way of doing it is to speak with as many people as I can so I can get a real idea of the person and as much comic information as possible. But Ghislaine was very clear that I wasn’t to speak to anyone else, that all the information was to come from Ghislaine.” . . .

Maxwell had only been publicly linked to Epstein for months at the time of his 40th birthday in 1993. But judging by the details Mason said Maxwell fed him about Epstein, it sounds as though the socialite already had a vivid sense of Epstein’s interest in young women and insatiable sexual appetite. Nearly 30 years later—as the socialite sits in a detention center having pleaded not guilty to six federal crimes, including enticement of minors and sex trafficking—the alleged lyrics are eery in their perverse prescience.

Recalled Mason, “She wanted me to mention that when Epstein was teaching at the Dalton School, he was the subject of many schoolgirl crushes.” At the time Mason thought it was “kind of an odd thing to want in a song about a man who appears to be your boyfriend. But she clearly thought that that was something that was going to amuse him. Another odd thing that she wanted me to say was that he had 24-hour erections.” (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Haunting 40th Birthday Present to Jeffrey Epstein” HERE)

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The attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands said it is hard to investigate the alleged sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew because of attempts to silence victims.

In an interview with Vanity Fair last week, the top prosecutor for the island, Denise George, said nondisclosure agreements enforced by the Epstein estate has made her investigation nearly impossible. She added that the agreements are being used to “conceal the criminal activity of Epstein and his associates who are still there.”

One such incident, according to George, includes an allegation that Andrew would openly grope underage girls.

“An employee told me that he saw Prince Andrew on a balcony out at Little St. James groping girls right out in the open,” the prosecutor said. “He said he remembered walking up to him and saying, ‘Good morning, your Highness.’” (Read more from “Prosecutor Accuses Prince Andrew of ‘Groping Girls Right out in the Open'” HERE)

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