In a pivotal 2019 BBC Panorama interview, Virginia Giuffre vividly described a night in March 2001 that has continued to cast a long shadow over Britain’s royal family. The Epstein accuser detailed being taken to London’s exclusive Tramp nightclub by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew, where the then-41-year-old royal allegedly danced with her, a 17-year-old trafficking victim.
Giuffre told interviewer Darragh Macintyre: “He is the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life. It was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere. I was just like grossed out from it, but I knew I had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me.”
She recounted entering the VIP section without waiting in line—”you were with a prince”—and Andrew buying her a vodka drink before inviting her to dance. The evening began earlier with the infamous photograph at Maxwell’s Belgravia home, where Andrew’s arm was around Giuffre’s waist as Maxwell smiled nearby.
Giuffre alleged that after leaving the club, Maxwell instructed her to “do for him what you do for Jeffrey,” leading to sex at the townhouse. This was one of three alleged encounters, including in New York and on Epstein’s island.
The sweating detail became infamous when Prince Andrew, in his own disastrous November 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, denied it, claiming a “peculiar medical condition” from a Falklands War “adrenaline overdose” prevented him from perspiring at the time. He also said he had no recollection of meeting Giuffre and questioned the photo’s authenticity.
Andrew categorically denied any sexual contact, suggesting he was at Pizza Express in Woking that day with daughter Beatrice. The interview triggered his withdrawal from public duties, loss of titles, and a 2022 multimillion-dollar settlement with Giuffre—without liability admission.
Giuffre’s unflinching Panorama account, her first UK television interview, challenged Andrew’s denials head-on. “He knows what happened, I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth,” she said. Tragically, Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at 41; her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl reiterated these claims, describing Andrew as “entitled.”
Her testimony empowered survivors and exposed elite vulnerabilities, ensuring the night at Tramp remains a haunting emblem of the Epstein scandal’s reach into royalty.
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