Giuffre: Epstein pal raped me 50 times

Prince Andrew accuser gave evidence, on ‘underage sex ring' model boss

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

PRINCE Andrew's former sex accuser Virginia Giuffre told a court that a French model agency boss she was introduced to by Jeffrey Epstein raped her at least 50 times.

Her claim has emerged as an investigation into the death in February this year of Jean-Luc Brunel in a Paris jail tries to disprove conspiracy theories that he was murdered.

Virginia, 38, told French magistrates in November 2020 that Brunel had committed "no less than 50 nonconsensual sex acts”, according to evidence outlined in the French newspaper Le Parisien yesterday.

She told of one alleged attack in St Tropez in May 2001 after model Naomi Campbell's 31st birthday party.

Recalling how Brunel would often rape her at the time, when she was aged 17, Virginia told the hearing: “The attacks did not stop on the pretext that we were on vacation. After the party, I think I had a few glasses of champagne and it got sexual.”

However, visa details in Brunel's passport showed he was between Australia and the US at the time.