Thomas took copies of the now-infamous photo, which had been taken almost a decade earlier, showing Prince Andrew, then 41, with his arm around Giuffre at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London. But in 2011, Thomas, together with Mail on Sunday reporter Sharon Churcher, was shown a photograph by Roberts (now using her married name Giuffre). Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, then Virginia Roberts, at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell (right) in 2001. When photographer Michael Thomas took a copy of a picture handed to him by a woman named Virginia Roberts, he never believed it would turn into a scandal still going strong a decade later. But speaking from the UK, Thomas said the photograph was definitely “not fake”, and recently helped prove it with documents he kept from that original interview.

Source: Stuff January 29, 2023 06:28 UTC