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m a yacht surrounded by topless which I don’t think is right,” she said a few days later when inter-
viewed by Today host Matt Lauer. “It’s a defamation of character, suit, Epstein had forced her into and as a great father and a humongously good man and all the Jeff's. work he does for Britain I won't stand by and let him have his
| character defamed to this level.” d But at the same time, a certain schadenfreude attended the 1 good man’s fall from grace, and former associates kept coming out of the woodwork to dish to the press.
British press were using another x Island. The Guardian reported slands—based corporations owned wife of the governor of the Virgin ; involving a million-dollar dona-
“I've seen him treat his staff in a shocking, appalling way,” said a former aide to the prince. “He’s been incredibly rude to his personal protection officers, literally throwing things on the ground and demanding they ‘fucking pick them up’ No social graces at all. Sure, if you're a lady with blond hair and big boobs, then I bet he’s utterly charming.”
o the governor’s reelection cam- oberts’s claim that she had been irince on the island as well as in
1 of Prince Andrew with his arm 4 | very young-looking Virginia Rob- E | Despite all this, the prince had stuck by Epstein. There was even . a photo, frequently trotted out by the tabloids, of the two of them
ared in the tabloids. | _ strolling in Central Park.
hat the Duke of York had any form ship” with Roberts, Buckingham | ay. “The allegations made are false
Some few months before it was taken, a reporter posing as a " businessman had secretly taped Sarah Ferguson’s demand for | five hundred thousand pounds in return for access to the prince. _ “If you want to meet him in your business,” she'd said then, ‘look after me, and he'll look after you. You'll get it back tenfold.” ters, “He is the greatest man the re _ “Once again,” she said afterward, “my errors have com- of my life in 1986 when I married Pounded and rebounded and also impacted on the man I admire st in the world.” 4 m Host in the world: the Duke.”
' Prince Andrew had had his troubles already—with shady real estate deals, sticky romances, highly embarrassing docu- nent dumps (courtesy of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks), and
h Ferguson, the Duchess of Yor . e prince and their daughter Euge-
se 1 know what it feels like to havi rou—and not support him so PES shockingly accusatory allegations
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