Maxwell suggests Epstein may have been set up with Princess Diana: ‘Don’t want to speak bad of her’

In the interview, Maxwell recalled Epstein travelling to London for what she described as a “big event” involving the late Princess of Wales. “I don’t know if he sat with Diana or he met with Diana and he’d already met her. I don’t know, but this, I believe, was organised by Rosa,” Maxwell said, referring to Diana’s close friend Rosa Monckton. She added, “I don’t know if she was being set up as a date for him, maybe because she was… I don’t want to speak bad of Diana, but… I’m not going to do that.”

Maxwell noted Epstein had lived in London during the 1980s, where he knew members of Britain’s high society, including Monckton and her husband, journalist Dominic Lawson. The timeline of Maxwell’s claim was unclear. At one point she suggested the alleged encounter could have been in the early 2000s, though Diana died in 1997.

Ferguson and Prince Andrew

Maxwell also spoke at length about Epstein’s ties to Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson. She denied introducing Epstein to the royals, insisting, “That is a flat untruth,” as per The Daily Beast.

According to Maxwell, Ferguson was the one who encouraged Epstein’s relationship with Andrew. “I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey, if I’m being honest,” she said, adding that she felt excluded from their early interactions.

Maxwell described Epstein as later asking her to organise meetings between Andrew and himself in New York. She claimed that she became close friends with the prince only afterward.

Addressing long-standing allegations that Andrew had sexual encounters with Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of abusing her at Maxwell’s London home, Maxwell dismissed the claims. “The idea of him doing anything of that nature in my house, that’s the size of this room, is so mind-blowingly inconceivable to me,” she told Blanche.

Maxwell also maintained that the widely circulated photo of Andrew with Giuffre was “manufactured.”

While Epstein’s alleged encounter with Diana had never been disclosed before, author Michael Wolff previously told The Daily Beast that Epstein and Donald Trump once competed over who could be the first to sleep with the princess.

There is no evidence that either Epstein or Trump had any physical relationship with Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

(With inputs from The Daily Beast)

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