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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
National
Edward Helmore

How a picture came to symbolize the Prince Andrew sexual abuse case

Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in the photo at the centre of the storm.
Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in the photo at the centre of the storm. Photograph: US district court/AFP/Getty Images

It was a simple photograph, taken late in the evening on 10 March 2001, that came to symbolize Virginia Giuffre’s case against Prince Andrew.

The one with the duke’s arm around the 17-year-old’s waist, with Ghislaine Maxwell beaming to one side, and the man behind the camera clicking the shutter but hidden by the flash’s reflection in the window being Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced late financier and sex trafficker.

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