I don't know if Diana was being set up as a date for Epstein ...maybe she was - GHISLAINE MAXWELL IN TAPE

SHAMELESS Ghislaine Maxwell has mired Princess Diana in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, claiming the paedophile was set up on a date with her.

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

In tapes made public by the US Justice Department, Maxwell, 63, said she believed the disgraced financier had travelled to Britain to meet the divorced princess.

Talking about Epstein's alleged courtship of Diana, Maxwell said he had gone to a “big event” in the UK.

She said: “I don't know if he sat with Diana or he met with Diana and hed already met her.”

Maxwell added: “I don’t know if she was being set up as a date for him, maybe because she was... I don't want to speak bad of Diana, but... I'm not going to do that.”

The comments were made during a two-day interview last month with US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche.

Maxwell has made a series of disclosures relating to her relationship with Epstein as the Justice Department continues to investigate the web of connections surrounding his activities.

The convicted teen trafficker - who is seeking a pardon from US President Donald Trump from her 20-year prison sentence - was inconsistent in her taped recollection.

She told how Epstein had lived in London for a period in the 1980s and mixed with “high society”, including those with connections to the royals.

She was unclear about the timing of the alleged date with Diana, suggesting it may have been around the early 2000s - which cannot be correct, as Diana died in 1997.