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where "Andrew was pictured on a yacht surrounded by topless women."
According to Roberts's lawsuit, Epstein had forced her into the prince's bed on Little Saint Jeff's.

After Epstein's conviction, the British press were using another name for Little Saint Jeff's: Sex Island. The Guardian reported that the manager of two Virgin Islands-based corporations owned by Epstein happened to be the wife of the governor of the Virgin Islands. There were allegations involving a million-dollar donation that Epstein had made to the governor's reelection campaign. And then there was Roberts's claim that she had been forced to have sex with the prince on the island as well as in New York and in London.
Invariably, the photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm around the bare midriff of a very young-looking Virginia Roberts ran with stories that appeared in the tabloids.
"It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship" with Roberts, Buckingham Palace spokespersons would say. "The allegations made are false and without any foundation."
The prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, while on a skiing trip with the prince and their daughter Eugenie in Switzerland, told reporters, "He is the greatest man there is. It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him. He is a great man, the best in the world."
"I won't stand by—because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you—and not support him so publicly because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations,

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which I don't think is right," [she said/was] viewed by Today host Matt La[uer] and as a great father and a h[usband?] work he does for Britain I w[ould not like his] character defamed to this leve[l].
But at the same time, a c[ommentary on a] good man's fall from grace, a[nd people coming] out of the woodwork to dish t[he dirt].
"I've seen him treat his st[aff badly,]" said a former aide to the princ[e about his] personal protection officers, [standing their] ground and demanding they '[observe social] graces at all. Sure, if you're a la[dy or rich,] then I bet he's utterly charmin[g]."

Despite all this, the prince had [a photo taken,] a photo, frequently trotted out [showing him] strolling in Central Park.
Some few months before it[, a] businessman had secretly tape[d Ferguson seeking] five hundred thousand pounds[.]
"If you want to meet him in [person,]" [she said,] "look after me, and he'll look aft[er you.]"
"Once again," she said aft[er she was] pounded and rebounded and als[o called the] most in the world: the Duke."
Prince Andrew had had his [share of] real estate deals, sticky roman[ces, and docu]ment dumps (courtesy of Julia[n Assange/WikiLeaks])

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