FILES RELEASED

Jeffrey Epstein victim claims she was ‘sexually trafficked’ to Good Friday Agreement hero George Mitchell as a teen

Mitchell has denied the allegations

• Brynmor Pattison

• Published: 15:40, 10 Jan 2024
• Updated: 15:41, 10 Jan 2024

A JEFFREY Epstein victim testified she was “sexually trafficked” to Good Friday Agreement hero George Mitchell when she was a teenager, newly-released documents show.

Virginia Giuffre claims financier Epstein sexually abused her and arranged for her to have sexual encounters with influential men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew.

And Giuffre claimed the former US Senator, who chaired the peace talks in Northern Ireland, was one of the “powerful business executives” involved.

Mitchell has flatly and repeatedly denied the allegation.

The fifth tranche of legal documents released on Tuesday, which include 1,400 pages of records, are part of a court case related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of teen girls.

The new unsealed files include a videotaped deposition by Giuffre in 2016, where she identifies Mitchell, now aged 90.

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While she says she is “unable” to provide an exact timeline of the alleged trafficking “since we are going back a very long time ago”, she adds that it was “roughly when I was 17”.

The incidents are alleged to have taken place in New Mexico and New York but Giuffre says there were no witnesses “to the actual event itself”. Epstein owned property in both locations.

Mitchell is a former US Senator for Maine and was the Senate majority leader from 1989 to 1995, while he later got the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.

It’s not the first time he has been linked to the entire affair, after Giuffre’s claims first surfaced in 2019.

In a 2014 legal filing, she said her abusers among others included Prince Andrew, French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel, billionaire Glenn Dubin and the head of a hotel chain, as well as other royal figures whose names she didn’t know.

All of the men, including Mitchell, denied the allegations.

In 2019, Mitchell said: “I have never met, spoken with or had any contact with Ms Giuffre.

“In my contacts with Mr Epstein I never observed or suspected any inappropriate conduct with underage girls.

“I only learned of his actions when they were reported in the media related to his prosecution in Florida.

“We have had no further contact.”

On Tuesday, he repeated the denial.

He told the BBC: “The allegation contained in the released documents is false. I have never met, spoken with or had any contact with Ms Giuffre.”