Maxwell bombshell FERGIE & DIANA INVOLVED!

The shamed socialite is causing chaos at the palace with new claims

- Judy Kean

The royal family has been rocked by shocking new claims made by Ghislaine Maxwell, with the convicted sex trafficker now dragging the Duchess of York and the late Princess Diana into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Tapes of Maxwell’s nine-hour interview with US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche have been released and in them, she has defended Prince Andrew, who has been stripped of many of his royal privileges thanks to his links to late sex offender Epstein. But she has thrown Andrew’s ex-wife Fergie under the bus, alleging it was the duchess who was responsible for Andrew, 65, getting to know Epstein, and not her as Andrew has claimed.

And she says there may have been plans to set up a newly-divorced Diana on a date with Epstein.

The comments by the disgraced British former socialite are expected to open up the royal family to even more scrutiny.

While Maxwell’s assertions that Andrew did not have sex with underage teenager Virginia Giuffre back in 2001 might initially seem to be helping his case, they may not be doing him any favours in the long run.

Maxwell, 63, was sentenced to 20 years in 2022 for helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The Department of Justice (DOJ) interviewed her because of the intense interest in Epstein and his association with US President Donald Trump.

In the interview, she heaps praise on Donald, 79, and says she never saw him in an “inappropriate setting”. She also denies the existence of a list of men who were associated with Epstein's sex-trafficking racket. She says she didn't witness any instances of him blackmailing powerful people.

When the conversation turns to Andrew, she defends the duke against allegations that he sexually assaulted Virginia when she was 17, and questions whether Virginia and the prince even met. She describes a famous photograph of the two of them in her London home as a fake.