Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell

in Belgravia, London, where the photograph was presumably taken in 2001. The photograph depicts the then Prince Andrew, Duke of York (now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) with his arm around the 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre with the smiling Ghislaine Maxwell standing to their left. The photographer's reflection is obscured by the flash from the camera reflected in a window. Giuffre said in 2011 that the image had been taken as "I wanted something to show my mom". Andrew disputed this by claiming that he was at the PizzaExpress restaurant in the Surrey town of Woking that night with his daughter Princess Beatrice. A week after the publication of the Central Park photograph, the Mail on Sunday asked Giuffre for evidence of her claims that she had been trafficked for sex by Epstein. ==Authenticity==

Disputed by Mountbatten-Windsor and Maxwell In his 2019 BBC interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew said that he had "absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken" but that he recognised himself in the photograph. He also said that "from the investigations that we've done, you can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph. So it's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph ever being taken" and that he did not "believe that photograph was taken in the way that has been suggested". She stated that there was "no original of that photo, [only] copies of it that have been produced, copies of copies. Parts of it, according to some experts, look like they have been photoshopped". In a 2023 article for News.com.au, Daniela Elser wrote that the windows of Maxwell's house on Kinnerton Street look "near-identical" to the windows in the photograph. A "draft statement" sent by a "G Maxwell" in 2015 to Epstein stated "In 2001 I was in London when [redacted] met a number of friends of mine including Prince Andrew. A photograph was taken as I imagine she wanted to show it to friends and family". Giuffre's brother said that the email "... truly does vindicate Virginia... she was not lying this entire time". In 2025, an email written by Epstein in 2011 was released by the House Oversight Committee in which he stated that "Yes she [Giuffre] was on my plane and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew". ==Existence and location of the original photograph==

During the Giuffre v. Prince Andrew case, Andrew's lawyers asked Giuffre to produce the original photograph, which she was unable to do as its location was unknown and her legal team had not seen the original photograph. It had allegedly been shipped from Colorado to Sydney between 2011 and 2016. Giuffre had lent the image to the American Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2016, she said under disposition that the photograph was not in her possession, but it was "probably in some storage boxes" either at her home or in Sydney at the house of her in-laws. ==References==