Ghislaine Maxwell claims Epstein was 'set up on a date' with Princess Diana in shocking DOJ testimony

WASHINGTON, DC: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claimed in her interview to DOJ that the disgraced financier was "set up on a date" with Princess Diana. The Department of Justice released the transcript of that interview on Thursday, August 22.

Maxwell added that she believes Epstein went to London to meet with Diana in tapes released by the Department of Justice on Friday, August 22.

Ghislaine Maxwell claims Epstein went on a date with Princess Diana

During the interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell also claimed that Prince Andrew’s former wife, Sarah Ferguson, was "putting the moves" on Jeffrey Epstein soon after he met the British royals. She said that the disgraced financier went to a "big event" in the UK without her.

"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 organized by Rosa," Maxwell said.

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 badly of Diana, but… I’m not going to do that."

Maxwell further said that before she met Epstein, he lived in London for a while in the 1980s and knew some "high society people," including Princess Diana’s best friend.

"Her name was Rosa Monckton. And Rosa’s husband, Dominic Lawson, who’s a famous journalist," Maxwell claimed.

However, during the interview, Maxwell was unclear about the timing of the alleged date and suggested it may have been around the early 2000s.

This would have been impossible, as Princess Diana died in 1997.

Meanwhile, Maxwell didn’t discuss Diana any further in her interview with the DOJ. She did, however, talk about her friendship with Prince Andrew, who faced allegations of having a relationship with an underage girl at her London home.

Ghislaine Maxwell says she didn't introduce Epstein to Prince Andrew

Talking about Prince Andrew, Maxwell said, "I did not introduce him (Epstein) to Prince Andrew or to Sarah Ferguson. That is a flat untruth."

"If you find me that photograph [of Princess Diana in London], I can date that time when he met Princess Diana at that event… and based on that, I can tell you whether it’s pre- or post-that event," she told Todd Blanche.

Furthermore, Maxwell added that Andrew was invited to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard and met Epstein there.

She said, "However, I believe that before that event, he had gone to the Bahamas and had hung out with Sarah Ferguson. And Sarah had called Epstein… or I don’t know. I’m speculating. Anyway, long and short, he met Andrew up there."

Moreover, Maxwell said it would never have occurred to her to introduce Epstein to Andrew and added that they were like "chalk and cheese."

"I think Sarah is the one that pushed that. And they met and hung out, I want to say two or three times that had nothing to do with me. I wasn’t communicating with Andrew. I wasn’t in touch with him," she said.

Maxwell added, "And I say that because I was annoyed and I felt left out. I felt disrespected and I was like, this is weird. I couldn’t even imagine Epstein and Andrew together. And I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey, if I’m being honest, and thought the whole thing was annoying and I was p****d off."

Meanwhile, she later explained that Epstein told her that Andrew was going to New York and that she had to "organize the whole thing."