The prince says the BBC has "no memory" of the woman who accuses him of sexual assault when she was a minor.
"I have no memory of ever having met this woman. " Prince Andrew, implicated in the Epstein affair, said he did not remember meeting the woman who accused her of sexual assault when she was a minor, according to excerpts from an interview with the BBC Friday night.
Virginia Roberts, one of the plaintiffs in the Epstein case, claimed to have been forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in London in 2001 (she was 17 years old), then on two other occasions in New York and on the private island of the American financier in the Caribbean.
The prince "Knows exactly what he's done and I hope he'll be honest", she told reporters after a hearing in late August in New York, where 15 other plaintiffs were heard by the US court, before the lawsuit against financier Jeffrey Epstein was dropped because of her suicide. .
Prince Andrew says he has never "seen" or "suspected" of sexual abuse by Epstein
In his interview at the BBC, to be broadcast Saturday night, Prince Andrew says he wants it " everyday " for continuing to attend Jeffrey Epstein after his release in 2010. The American had served a prison sentence after being convicted in 2008 for pushing girls into prostitution in Florida.
Charged with sexual assault on minors, Jeffrey Epstein was again arrested and charged in early July for organizing, for several years, a network of dozens of girls under his control, with whom he had sex in his home. many properties, including Manhattan and Florida.
He was found dead on August 10 in the cell of his New York prison, the results of the autopsy confirming a suicide by hanging.
Buckingham Palace repeatedly denied any improper behavior on the part of Prince Andrew. Questioned in the British press, the 59-year-old prince claimed at the end of August never to have "Seen" or "Suspected" sexual abuse on the part of Jeffrey Epstein.
As part of an investigation opened in France, a new call for witnesses, expanded internationally, was launched Friday. French investigators are interested in the role played by the French model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a former close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, accused of rape by several former top models.
