GHISLAINE Maxwell has said her “biggest mistake” was luring Prince Andrew's accuser into her and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s depraved world, it can be revealed.

The 57-year-old, accused of being Epstein's "pimp", is said to “not give a s**t” about Virginia Roberts-Giuffre, who claims to have had sex with the royal when she was 17, and the scores of other girls that Epstein abused.

Ghislaine Maxwell pictured with Jeffrey Epstein, who she is accused of procuring girls for Credit: Getty - Contributor

According to a family friend, Maxwell feared is that the legal action launched by Virginia would expose her network of powerful friends which she spent years building and protecting.

Laura Goldman, 61, a former New York City stockbroker who mixed in the same social circles as Maxwell, told Sun Online how the alleged madam was “undoubtedly” the brains behind Epstein’s predatory schemes as she was much more intelligent, well connected and charming that he was.

She told Sun Online: “Ghislaine was hysterical about the defamation suit Virginia Roberts launched. That suit made her nutso. She saw that as a threat to her whole network of famous friends.

“Ghislaine said her ‘biggest mistake’ was ever involving Virginia. Ghislaine doesn’t give a s**t about the girls like Virginia who suffered, she is more worried about exposing her network."

Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Roberts with Ghislaine Maxwell Credit: Rex

Laura Goldman is a former NYC stockbroker who is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's sister Isabel Credit: Getty - Contributor

Laura says she last saw Maxwell about 10 years ago, but still shares mutual friends with her - and remains friends with the socialite's sister Isabel Maxwell.

She said she attended many events with Epstein and Maxwell in the 90s and even attended one of the billionaire’s infamous parties at his home in Florida - which was packed with "young girls".

“I got invited to attend by a male friend who was going," Laura recalled.

"It was back in the 90s. I got there and there were lots of married men without their wives and young girls all over.

“Prince Andrew wasn’t there. I didn’t think the girls were underage but they probably were in retrospect.

“Jeffrey’s house in New York was very lavish but his Florida place wasn’t. It was away from the beach and at the end of a road.

“It was not a party for a woman to be a guest at and I was uncomfortable. Because of that I didn’t want to go to any of his New York events because I knew there was just something wrong about it.

“After Jeffrey was arrested the first time back in 2008 I didn’t want any more to do with either him or Ghislaine after that.”

Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in August, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges Credit: AP:Associated Press

Ghislaine doesn't "give a s**t" about Epstein's alleged victims, according to her former pal Credit: Getty Images

Laura also criticised Prince Andrew - who has always denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein's activities - for not realising what the scores of young girls at the perv's events were really there for.

She said: “I think Prince Andrew is a dolt. He lives in a different world and may well have thought those girls were servants but obviously, they weren’t.

“He is part of a world of people who think they are entitled to get whatever they want. It’s a different reality to most people.

"They believe it’s all coming to them and the world owes it to them.”

Laura also told of her surprise when Maxwell was pictured at an In-N-Out burger restaurant in Los Angeles in July.

Maxwell is believed to have been photographed by her lawyer, Leah Saffian, whose dog appeared to be with the socialite - and whose metadata was linked to the picture.

Saffian has kept a low profile since the allegations but Sun Online pictured her ironically going through the drive-thru of her local In-N-Out burger joint in Los Angeles this weekend.

Ghislaine was pictured in an In and Out burger in LA - although some believe the pictures were faked Credit: The Mega Agency

Saffian, who is believed to have taken the mysterious In-N-Out pictures, returned to the burger joint this weekend Credit: Clint Brewer/ Backgrid

“Ghislaine does not eat at In-N-Out. She is obsessed with her figure. She always used to make a very offensive joke that she was on a ‘Holocaust diet," Laura revealed.

"I couldn’t believe she would allow the first picture of her for however long to be at a fast food restaurant. I was shocked.

“I bet it was the first time she had ever been there. She’s very, very vain.”

It comes after Laura revealed to Sun Online how Maxwell was "sex obsessed" and has managed to find herself a new boyfriend.

Telling how she became close to the Maxwell family, Laura said: “My parents are Holocaust survivors and Isabel does a great deal of work talking about the Holocaust.

“The Maxwells lost something like 300 members of their family in the Holocaust and as a family they have done a lot for the state of Israel.

Maxwell, pictured at a party in 1995, would turn up tot he opening of an envelope, Laura claims Credit: Getty - Contributor

“I was always active in the Jewish community scene so that’s how I got to know Isabel. I’ve travelled with her to Israel and people would literally stand up when she walked into a room, her family commands respect.

“I didn’t get to know Isabel’s twin sister Christine who live in Dallas but I knew of her because she is a Holocaust academic, too.

“I got to know Jeffrey through academic circles at first. He had links to universities I was also associated with.

“Back then in the 1990s there were all kinds of parties in New York and there used to be a joke in the early days that Ghislaine would show up to the opening of an envelope.

“She would literally be at every event, networking. That was her job. No-one actually knew what she did for a living. Going to parties and meeting people was her thing. She was everywhere.

“She always wore nice and expensive clothes. Then she started to be with Jeffrey at events. I think she was attracted to him for all sorts of reasons.

“For a start he was a very domineering character, like her father Robert. And she wanted money. The kind she was used to before her father died. I myself wasn’t really her cup of tea, I wasn’t fancy enough."

Maxwell has denied any wrongdoing. Sun Online reached out to her representative for comment.