A grotesque latex puppet caricaturing then-Prince Andrew, propped casually on a sofa in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, has emerged from the latest trove of over 300,000 Epstein files released by the US Justice Department on December 19, 2025—offering haunting visual corroboration to long-standing claims by the late Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre, who tragically died by suicide in April 2025 at age 41, detailed in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl and earlier depositions how Andrew allegedly used this very Spitting Image puppet—a satirical gift from Ghislaine Maxwell—to grope her breast during a 2001 visit to Epstein’s New York home. She was 17, trafficked and terrified. “When Andrew cupped my breast with a doll made in his image, I only giggled away,” she wrote, masking horror with compliance. Another accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, testified in 2016 that Andrew placed the puppet’s hand on Giuffre’s breast while groping Sjoberg herself: “They took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”
The newly surfaced photo shows Maxwell posing in a flight suit, with the eerie puppet lurking in the background—undated but unmistakably the one described. Royal sources call it “partial vindication” for Giuffre and Sjoberg, intensifying pressure on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, already stripped of titles amid renewed scrutiny from Giuffre’s book and file disclosures.
Andrew has vehemently denied all wrongdoing, settling Giuffre’s 2022 lawsuit without admission of liability. Yet this chilling image revives questions of entitlement and exploitation in Epstein’s web of power.
As more files potentially surface, the puppet’s silent stare symbolizes unresolved horrors—reminding us that evidence, like trauma, endures long after denials.
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