Ghislaine Maxwell Emails Confirm Ex-Prince Andrew's Photo With Virginia Giuffre Is Real: Report

Last Updated:February 05, 2026, 00:05 IST

Previously, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had rejected the authenticity of the photo of him being in intimate contact with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, reports Daily Mail.

Photo of Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre. (Daily Mail/X)

Amid the ongoing row over late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an email has emerged confirming the infamous photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with his arm around his chief accuser, according to a report by Daily Mail.

Previously, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had rejected the authenticity of the photo of him being in intimate contact with Virginia Giuffre, one of the important victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, when she was 17-years-old. Andrew claimed that the photo was likely fake.

According to Daily Mail, in the email, that surfaced on Wednesday, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell Giuffre said she was “stating for the record as fact" that not only had she introduced the former Prince to Giuffre but that the image was taken at her London home that same night.

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This was made in a series of 2015 emails released in a tranche of more than three million Jeffrey Epstein-related documents by the US Department of Justice last week.

“In 2001 I was in London when (redacted) met a number of friends of mine including Prince Andrew," she wrote.

“A photograph was taken as I imagine she wanted to show it to friends and family…I never asked (redacted) to give him a massage," her draft statement added.

In the email, she said: “I am stating for the record as fact’ before adding: ‘Prince Andrew came to my house to visit me – (redacted) was in the house and they did meet."

However, she alleged that she had “no knowledge" of Giuffre “having sexual activity" with Andrew or any other “famous people".

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To her email, Epstein said her statement left “too many unanswered questions" adding: “Her and andrew?…whats the deal here? why is she there."

Maxwell replied insisting that she needed the statement “asap" and that she was advised to say “I was not aware of massage w/andrew in my house".

“These thing they have to stay, along w/meeting virginia and rebutting those allegations. I needs it asap," she said.

Daily Mail quoted the email “first draft priviledged joint defense agreement", stating that she was compelled to speak out due to the “salacious claims" against her.

She said: “The allegations made against me by (redacted) are lies. I have consistently stated that they are untrue and I have waited for an opportunity to prove this in a court of law."

To discredit Giuffre, who committed suicide last year, Maxwell said: “The salacious claims she makes are untrue and made purely for financial gain. The relentless media harassment to which I, Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew have been subjected to over the last week has become intolerable and breaches any justifiable sense of natural justice."

She also claimed that she plans to refer “both the harassment and the unfair and untrue allegations" to the Press Complaints Commission immediately.

“Finally (redacted) claims she was a sex slave for the rich and famous, however the reality is that working as a waitress in a burger bar," she concluded.

According to Daily Mail, the emails were written days after Giuffre first launched her bombshell legal claim in the US in January 2015 accusing Maxwell of recruiting her as a “sex slave".

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