Update: Disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide

Documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking of underaged girls were made public Friday, and Prince Andrew was again among the names of powerful men accused of enjoying the services of the financier’s “sex slaves.”

It has been widely reported that the seventh in line to the British throne has been accused of having sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre three times in the early 2000s, when she was 17. Buckingham Palace has repeatedly and consistently denied Giuffre’s sex abuse allegations.

But the new documents mean the royal family won’t have much success in downplaying reports about the Duke of York’s decades-long friendship with the accused sex trafficker, who entertained the royal at parties at his Manhattan mansion or on trips to his New Mexico ranch and his private island in the Caribbean.

The documents also include the testimony of a second accuser who said Andrew, 59, fondled her breast and made sexual advances on her and Giuffre with a puppet that looked like him.

Epstein, 66, is currently facing sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges in New York. He has pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court and is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

The documents, numbering in the thousands, are related to a 2015 lawsuit Giuffre filed against Epstein’s longtime friend, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell has been called Epstein’s “madam,” with Giuffre alleging that she solicited underage girls to give Epstein and his rich and powerful friends erotic massages and to perform other sex acts.

Giuffre claims in her lawsuit that she was forced to have sex with “many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.”

In interviews and in her 2015 lawsuit, Giuffre claimed she had sex with Andrew at the direction of Epstein and Maxwell. The encounters, Giuffre said, occurred in the early 2000s in a London apartment, in Epstein’s New York City mansion and during “an orgy with numerous other underage girls” on the financier’s private estate in the Virgin Islands.

The court documents include a 2016 deposition from Tony Figueroa, Epstein’s former bodyguard, who testified that Giuffre told him about Epstein wanting her to have sex with Prince Andrew and expressing fear if she refused.

The second accuser identified in court documents is Johanna Sjoberg, who previously told the Daily Mail in 2007 that Andrew groped her while they were at Epstein’s New York mansion in 2001. She said she was 21 at the time.

In a 2016 deposition and a 66-page brief, Sjoberg corroborates Giuffre’s account of how Maxwell recruited young women and girls under the ruse of a legitimate job. Maxwell’s real purpose, Sjoberg said, was to bring them into Epstein’s household and groom them to have sex with him. Sjoberg said in her deposition that she was threatened with punishment if she didn’t bring Epstein to orgasm.

Sjoberg also testified about her encounter with Andrew. She said Giuffre was there.

“I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to get on the couch,” Sjoberg testified in a deposition. “And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap. And so I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”

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Prince Andrew: Father of the bride still remembered for friendship with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Epstein was first investigated for the alleged sex trafficking of minors in the mid-2000s. Dozens of alleged victims were identified, but Epstein’s lawyers negotiated a controversial deal with federal prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty in 2007 to solicitation and serve just 13 months in a county jail.

Giuffre has long claimed that Harvard law attorney Alan Dershowitz is among the powerful men she had sex with at Epstein’s direction. Dershowitz has denied her accusations. The newly released documents show that Giuffre also has made allegations against New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson former U.S. senator George Mitchell and now-deceased MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, the Daily Beast and outlets reported.

Richardson and Mitchell, the former senator from Maine, have denied Giuffre’s allegations, according to the Daily Beast and the Portland Press Herald.